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Tommy Keck, 2 1/2, Drowns After Leap Into River; Physician, Others Fight futilely to Revive Him.
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The Potter Enterprise
Coudersport, Pennsylvania
13 Jan 1949, Thu • Page 1
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Coudersport Boy, 2 1/2, Drowns After Leap Into
River; Physician, Others Fight to Revive Him
the river, which flows at the rear W. Loomis, who was among the first about 250-300 feet away, when, for to arrive when word of the tragedy no assignable reason, the Keck boy spread, did all they could to corn-American climbed onto a fence and leaped fort her. into the stream. The water at that i home to tell what had happened. -appreciation He said "Tommie cried for help when he went in." Son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Keck Fails to Respond After Hour and Half Jumps Into River, 4-Year-Old Playmate Says Father Discovers Child in Shallows Downstream In Water About Half an Hour.
Death by drowning came to a 2 1/2-year-old Coudersport boy Tuesday night, tragic aftermath of a plunge into the Allegheny River.
The tiny victim, Thomas R. Keck, was found about 250 yards downstream by his father, Richard Keck, about 5:20 p. m., less than 20 minutes after the boy was discovered missing.
A physician, police, firemen and a telephone company worker rendered artificial resuscitation for an 1 hour and a half, but the boy failed to respond. He was pronounced dead at 6:50 p. m.
Grief-stricken parents sat in a darkened room of the Keck home, on Eulalia St., hopeful to the last that efforts being made in an adjoining room to revive their only child would be successful. The drowning was listed as accidental.
The only witness was a four-year-old playmate and neighbor, whose story that "Tommie stood on the fence, jumped into the river" led to the discovery of the child lying in a shallow place in the stream.
The mother told police that she missed her son around 5 p. m. As she started a search, Yvonne Lamb, 12, who lives next door, told Mrs. his little sandy-haired playmate Keck that her son's playmate, Ed-
never again would rush into the ward Easton, had run to his home, Easton home and call out, "Where's adjoining that of the Lambs, and Eddie." exclaimed, "Tommie jumped into The mother, the former Marion the river." The Lamb girl was run- Shelley, of Eldred, sobbed uncon-ning to inform Mrs. Keck when trollably when efforts to revive the they met. boy were abandoned as hopeless.
According to the Easton child's The bereaved woman's husband story, they had been playing along , point is about five feet deep and almost sluggish. The Easton boy later said that he tried vainly to pull his playmate from the water before running The father ran to the river.-Neighbors joined in the search, tery, at Austin. made difficult by darkness. White boots the boy was wearing parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Shelled to his discovery in the river at ley, of Eldred. the rear of the Simmons barn. Lifting the unconscious child from the water, the father raced back to their home and summoned State police. Corp. George A. Auten and Pvt. Michael C. Evelock responded. In the meantime, a call had been put in for firemen to Join the search. Dr. H. C. Mosch arrived snortiy after the police and began artificial respiration and administered adrenalin directly into the child's heart muscles. Firemen, who arrived shortly after, assisted. Later, an inhalator owned by the fire department was rushed to the Keck home and put Into operation. David M. Larson, of Bradford, a telephone company employe who said that, as a child, he had been pulled from a stream and revived after three hours, and Dr. Mosch, worked tirelessly over the boy. In a final desperate effort to revive the child, Dr. Mosch administered a second ampule of adrenalin. Meanwhile, scores of neighbors and friends, gathered outside at windows and doors, watched silently and hopefully, as the drama inside unfolded. One who was not present was "Eddie" Easton. He was sleeping soundly, unaware that his mother and the Rev. Gordon
Thomas was born at Coudersport on July 9, 1946 He was the Keck's third child. Two children born previously died at birth.
A funeral service will be held at the residence at 2 p. m. tomorrow (Friday), with Rev. Loomis officiating. The Grabe Funeral Home will conduct the service.
Burial will be in Forest Hill Cemetery, at Austin.
Survivors also include his grand-
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