OBIT: Mike VASANO, 1916, Wilbur, Somerset County, PA

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Vasano, Mike

DROWNED NEAR HOOVERSVILLE

The body of an unidentified man apparently the victim of drowning was found 
Saturday afternoon about one mile from Hooversville by Herman Meyers, a farmer. 
The body was lying on top of a pile of driftwood on a small island in the 
Stonycreek River. It is though that the man was dead for about three weeks. 
There were no marks of foul play and it is though he met death during the high 
water of three weeks ago and only after the water became low was the body 
exposed to view. A pay envelope from the Wilbur mines was found in one of the 
pockets and it is though that through this his identity may be discovered. The 
body was identified later as that of Mike Vasano, 30 years old and unmarried. He 
lived at Wilbur. The identification was established by Joe Bongush, with whom 
Vasano boarded, also by the number on the pay check found in his pocket. At the 
coroner's inquest the verdict of the jury was that the man came to his death 
from accidental drowning.

Meyersdale Commercial, Apr. 20, 1916