Benjamin Thomas dies getting Hemingray Blue Lick Water

Strangled in a Spring.

CINCINNATI, July 24. -- Benjamin Thomas met with a strange death and his 17-year-old son had a narrow escape from the same fate. The father went to the outlet of the pipe from the Hemingray Blue Lick springs to quench his thirst. When Thomas knelt down the board broke and his head was then down into the spring. He was immediately strangled. Elmer, seeing his father's struggles, hastened to help him. In trying to lift him he was overpowered by the strong odor of Blue Lick and fell backward under the pipe in a dead faint. John Buckley went to his rescue and saved his life.