Brockwayville Record
5 Jul 1912, p.3
Sykesville Hero Dies Trying to Save Boy
James London Sinks in Stream at Mahoning Attempting to Take Lad From Water.
In an attempt to rescue Lowry Hicks, the fourteen year old son of Amos Hicks, of Franklin, James London, Jr., of Sykesville, together with the youth whom he had tried to save, was drowned Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock at Mahoning.
The Hicks boy with a number of others was swimming in the Mahoning creek near the Pidle junction. The boy, a fair swimmer, was caught in a swirl hole and called for help.
London who was on the bank nearby, threw off his coat and jumped to the boy's rescue. He succeeded in reaching him, but with the boy fighting frantically in his death terror London was unable to pull him to safety and both sank. The bodies were recovered half an hour later, but all efforts at resuscitation failed.
London, who so heroically gave his life, was a resident of Sykesville, this county, where his wife and four children reside. He was 25 years of age and the son of Mr. and Mrs. James London, of Henderson township, the farm being located about two miles above Big Run.
5 Jul 1912, p.3
Sykesville Hero Dies Trying to Save Boy
James London Sinks in Stream at Mahoning Attempting to Take Lad From Water.
In an attempt to rescue Lowry Hicks, the fourteen year old son of Amos Hicks, of Franklin, James London, Jr., of Sykesville, together with the youth whom he had tried to save, was drowned Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock at Mahoning.
The Hicks boy with a number of others was swimming in the Mahoning creek near the Pidle junction. The boy, a fair swimmer, was caught in a swirl hole and called for help.
London who was on the bank nearby, threw off his coat and jumped to the boy's rescue. He succeeded in reaching him, but with the boy fighting frantically in his death terror London was unable to pull him to safety and both sank. The bodies were recovered half an hour later, but all efforts at resuscitation failed.
London, who so heroically gave his life, was a resident of Sykesville, this county, where his wife and four children reside. He was 25 years of age and the son of Mr. and Mrs. James London, of Henderson township, the farm being located about two miles above Big Run.
Brockwayville Record
5 Jul 1912, p.3
Sykesville Hero Dies Trying to Save Boy
James London Sinks in Stream at Mahoning Attempting to Take Lad From Water.
In an attempt to rescue Lowry Hicks, the fourteen year old son of Amos Hicks, of Franklin, James London, Jr., of Sykesville, together with the youth whom he had tried to save, was drowned Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock at Mahoning.
The Hicks boy with a number of others was swimming in the Mahoning creek near the Pidle junction. The boy, a fair swimmer, was caught in a swirl hole and called for help.
London who was on the bank nearby, threw off his coat and jumped to the boy's rescue. He succeeded in reaching him, but with the boy fighting frantically in his death terror London was unable to pull him to safety and both sank. The bodies were recovered half an hour later, but all efforts at resuscitation failed.
London, who so heroically gave his life, was a resident of Sykesville, this county, where his wife and four children reside. He was 25 years of age and the son of Mr. and Mrs. James London, of Henderson township, the farm being located about two miles above Big Run.
5 Jul 1912, p.3
Sykesville Hero Dies Trying to Save Boy
James London Sinks in Stream at Mahoning Attempting to Take Lad From Water.
In an attempt to rescue Lowry Hicks, the fourteen year old son of Amos Hicks, of Franklin, James London, Jr., of Sykesville, together with the youth whom he had tried to save, was drowned Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock at Mahoning.
The Hicks boy with a number of others was swimming in the Mahoning creek near the Pidle junction. The boy, a fair swimmer, was caught in a swirl hole and called for help.
London who was on the bank nearby, threw off his coat and jumped to the boy's rescue. He succeeded in reaching him, but with the boy fighting frantically in his death terror London was unable to pull him to safety and both sank. The bodies were recovered half an hour later, but all efforts at resuscitation failed.
London, who so heroically gave his life, was a resident of Sykesville, this county, where his wife and four children reside. He was 25 years of age and the son of Mr. and Mrs. James London, of Henderson township, the farm being located about two miles above Big Run.
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