Submitted by
Loyd Bishop

Harry Clark, an Expressman, Lost His Life Saturday Night

Saturday evening, Harry Clark, an employee of the Wells Fargo Express Company was drowned in the Santa Fe pond east of Newkirk. Clark was about twenty years of age and Saturday in company with another boy, named Frank Mayes went swimming in the lake. The lake covers sixty acres of ground and in the middle, which is the deepest part, is about twenty feet deep.
The boys had been swimming a little while when Clark started across the pond. When he reached the middle he either became exhausted or was taken with a cramp and went down. His companion was unable to reach him in time to save him and immediately notified the town. Men with drag nets and other hooks and appliances went to the lake and tried to recover the body, but their efforts were useless until yesterday morning when the lake was dynamited and the body arose to the surface. Clark lived with his uncle at Newkirk. [Date of Death:July 18, 1903]