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- Utica NY Daily Press - 8/18/1938
Amherst -(AP)- Snatched once
from death by two companions,
Benjamin Achterberg. 23. was
drowned a few minutes later when
their boat overturned.
ALSO
North Tonawanda NY Evening News - 8/17/1938
Believed to have been the victim of a heart attack, Benjamin
Achterberg, 23 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs,
Charles Achterberg, Tonawanda Creek road, town of Amherst,
sank in the Barge Canal while swimming with a number
of other young people at Pickard's Bridge early last evening.
The body was recovered IS
minutes later by members of the
North Amherst Fire company, of
which the youth was a member.
An inhilator was Used by the
First Aid squad. of the Eggertsville
Fire company in an unsuccessful
attempt to restore him.
Physicians said that no water
was found in the man's lungs,
giving rise to the belief that he
was the victim of a heart attack.
Not Expert Swimmer
Achterberg was not an expert
swimmer,..He had been swimming
with other youths of Pickard's
Bridge in the canal all Summer
and was considered able to hand-
le himself fairly well in the
aquatic sport.
The point where he went down
was less than 1,00 feet from the
Achterberg home and only a short
distance east of the bridge over
the canal in the small settlement.
Ria Survivors
Besides his parents the youth
is survived by two brothers,
Leonard and Maynard, at home,
and two sisters, Mrs. Jacob Dexheimer,
town of Wheatfield, and
Lorna, at home.
Medical examiner Charles E
Long was called. The body was
removed to Hamp's morgue or
Adam street. Dr. Long has not
issued a certificate of death.
The funeral will be held Friday
afternoon at 2 o'clock from the
residence and at 2;30 o'clock at the
St. Paul's church in Martinsville
the Rev. F. A. Hinners officiating
Interment will be in the Wheatfield
cemetery, Shawnee road.
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1915 - 1938 (23 years)