Jackson-Multnomah County OR Archives Obituaries.....Jarvis, Roscoe October 29, 1904
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Morning Oregonian October 30,1904
Headlong Plunge to Death
Ashland,or.,Oct.29-(Special)- Roscoe Jarvis,aged 16 years,son of Mr. and Mrs. 
Jarvis, the boarding house keepers at the big lumber mill of the Ashland 
Manufacturing Company,six miles south of Ashland,on Neil Creek,was dashed to 
death this morning by falling from the lumbering flume to the rocks in the 
creek 30 feet below.
The young man was employed in tending the flume which is used to float lumber 
from the mill to the railroad,a distance of three miles, and which at some 
points reaches high over the waters of Neil Creek. he in some way lost his 
balance, and plunged headlong and struck his heaf on the rocks belw and was 
instantly killed.

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