Wednesday evening, July 3, 1901 Mike Nix, book keeper of the comissary department of a railroad grade camp, located near the mouth of Long Creek, left the camp saying he was going out for a walk. Two hours later his clothes were discovered on the bank of the creek and his body lying face downward in a pool of water, about two feet deep. The presumption is that he went direct from the camp to the pool for a bath and that the body had lain in the water nearly two hours. The fact that there was no water in the lungs is evidence that death was not caised by drowning and sustains the theory that as he leaped from the bank the thread of life was servered by heart failure and life was extinct before the body touched the water. The body was taken to Berlin cemetery for burial last Saturday.
