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Wilkes-Barre, PA Bridge Accident, Jun 1904

Posted October 17th, 2007 by Stu Beitler

DIED WHILE PRAYING ON A BRIDGE.

A Wilkesbarre, Pa., dispatch says that while kneeling on the Plymouth bridge praying for a relative who was drowned five years ago, GEORGE SHEPLA fell into the Susquehanna and was drowned. He was a foreigner, but knowing the American custom of services for the dead on Memorial Day, he decided to go to the brige [sic] and pray, thinking it appropriate to do so because the body of his relative was never recovered, and the river was the only grave it knew.

Box Elder County News Utah 1904-06-09
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Researched and Transcribed by Stu Beitler. Thank you, Stu!

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