Hemingray employee drowns in quarry

POLICE FAIL TO

RECOVER BODY

Will Employ Diver in Search

for Drowned Man.

Unsuccessful in their efforts of two days to drag the body of Ed Lancaster, 23, 1705 East Twelfth St., from the bottom of Mock's stone quarry, on East Jackson St., police, Tuesday, were seeking another method of searching for the body.

Seventy-five pounds of dynamite, exploded at different points in the quarry, late Wednesday afternoon, failed to bring the body to the top, and the officers resumed their work of dragging the quarry, about 1 a. m. Monday.

Lancaster was drowned while swimming in the quarry with fel­low employes of the Hemingray the police: Pumping the quarry dry, at 12:30 a. m. Monday.

Swimming in Quary [sic] Quarry.

Lancaster and his two compan­ions, Gilbert Paris, of Second and Blaine Sts., and Elmor Noel, 524 Windsor St., were swimming about the pool and finally started across. When Paris and Noel reached the bank they missed Lancaster and started shouting for him.

When he failed to answer they notified police, who began dragging the quarry immediately. Lancaster was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Reuben H. Lancaster and had been em­ployed at the Hemingray Company for some time. He was not married.

Three methods are still open to Glass Company after they left work borrowing a diving outfit from the Indianapolis department, or locat­ing a local man who is willing to attempt diving for the body without apparatus. The latter plan prob­ably will be followed first.