Jungle Hotel Waiter Drowns  

Rocherster Sentinel - Wednesday, May 13, 1925 ---- Tom DOORAH, negro, age 28, drowned in Lake Maxinkuckee Tuesday morning in 50 feet of water. He was a waiter at the Jungle Hotel, situated on the west side of the lake and after breakfast, he and a companion had gone canoeing. When 200 yards from shore the canoe capsized . Their cries for help were heard by William COOPER, an employee of the hotel, who put out in a boat and saved the other man from drowning. Doorah went down almost immediately, being either overtaken by cramps caused by the extremely cold water or else because he was unable to swim.

People from Culver and the academy immediately started dragging the bottom of the lake for the body but so far have been unable to locate it. In all probability, the body will lie on the bottom of the lake until gas forms in sufficient quantity to float it. Under present weather conditions this should be from 14 to 21 days.

Doorah was a South Carolina negro and came to Culver last fall from South Bend, where he had been employed by a Dr. CURTIS. He has been working at the hotel since Easter, and prior to that time was a waiter at Culver Military Academy. Doorah has relatives in Niles, Michigan.

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Logansport Pharos Tirbune
Wedensday May 13, 1925

Negro Drowned In Lake at Culver

Searching Parties Draging Waters of Maxinkuckee to Recover body

(special to Pharos-tribune) Culver , Ind. May 13, Searching parties continue today to drag the waters of lake maxinkuckee in an effort to recover the body of Thomas dorroh, age 28, colored waiter at the Jungle hotel, who was drowned yeasterday morning when the canoe occupied by he and clarence Fields, another waiter, upset 400 yards from the shore.

Fields saved himelf by clinging to the overturned craft until rsecuers reached him. the drowning is the first of the year reported in this section of the state.

Dorroh and Fields had rented a canoe for a trip about the lake and had just began the ill-fated voyage when the accident occured. As the canoe overturned throwing the two men into the water, both managed to grab hold of the capsized vessell.

The occupants of a dozen or more boats upon lake witnessed the mishap and heard the cries of the men as they struggled in the water. the rescuers had hastened to within fifty feet of the unfortunate men when dorroh suddenly screamed; threw his hands above his head and sank to the bottom. field maintained his hold until help arrived. it is the belief that Dorroh was stricken with cramps or an attack of heart trouble

Throughout the remainder the day, the lake at this spot which attains a depth of fifty feet, was dragged but no trace of the body found.

Dorroh came to Lake Maxinkuckee a month ago from South bend and since that time had been empolyed at the Jungle hotel.

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QUIT EFFORTS TO RECOVER BODY

(Special to Pharos-Tribune) Culver . Ind., May 16—With the abandonment of efforts to locate the body of Thomas Darroh, colored, who drowned in Lake Maxinkuckee here a few days ago, officials of the city and academy await the arrival of the ninth day at which time it is expected that the body will come to the surface.

The lake and shores will be, patrolled on that day which is Thurs day. May 21. A screen has been placed, over the outlet of the lake.

Authorities here believe that an under current has swept the body to deen water.

Logansport Pharos Tribune, Saturday, May 16, 1925, Logansport, Indiana

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Give Up Efforts to Locate Body

(Special to The Press) Culver , Ind., May 16.—Efforts to find tho body of Thomas Darrch, colored, hotel employe here who was drowned in Lake Maxinkuckee this week, have been abandoned by searching parties until next Thursday when final search will be made.

Thursday will be the ninth day since Darreh was drowned and a patrol will be kept along the lake in case the body, which is supposedly In deep water rises to the surface. The lake's outlet has been barricaded with a screen - - Logansport Press, Sunday, May 17, 1925, Logansport, Indiana

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1925 - May 20 - Who Will Help

Who will hild find the body of Ton Dorroh who was droened in Lake Maxinkuckee om May 12th?

All efforts to recover the body have thus far failed

The lake has brrn dragged in the immediate vicinity of the place where Dorroh went down. A water x-ray machine was used for a while one night. Divers have tried their luck. Searching parties have been on the lake many hours since the man went down. all effort has been to no avail

According to the laws of nature, the body should come to the top of the water today or tommorrow. From five to seven days is usually the length of time for such action to take place. However, wh en it does come up. it will not lie on the surface of the water so that it can be easlily seen and there is no way of telling just where it will come up. For that reason, searching parties must be organized.

Marshall Murphy has designated Friday morning, beginning at eight o'clock, as a time for the community to turn out in all available boats to thoroughly cover the lake, near the shore and in the deep water

He has secured the permission of all boat houses around the laketo use the boats for this purpose free of charge:
Walker's Boat House
Mack's Boat House
The Jungle Hotel boats
The Palmer House boats
The Bigley store boats
All one need to do is make his wants known at any of the above places and a boat will be g;ad;y furnished.

Who will help? The entire community should turn out for this. A mand is dead. His body is in Lake Maxinkuckee. Will the citizens of the community lend aid to get it out that decent burial may be given? - Citizen

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Logansport Press, Thursday, May 28, 1925, Logansport, Indiana - Body of Negro is Taken from Lake - The body of Thomas Darreh negro hotel empluye who was drowned in Lake Maxinkuckee two weeks ago, was recovered yesterday when it floated to the surface within a few feet of the place where he was drowoned. The lake in the vicinity had been dragged in an effort to raise the body but it had not been found.

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Rochester Sentinel - Wednesday, May 27, 1925 --- The body of Tom DOORAH, former colored waiter of the Jungle Hotel at Lake Maxinkuckee, who was drowned in the lake nearly two weeks ago when a canoe capsized, search for which was diligently pursued in vain, was washed ashore Wednesday morning at 6 a.m., being left on the shore near the point where the fatal mishap occurred. An employee of Culver academy made the gruesome discovery. Turned over to the coroner, the body was sent to to South Bend for preparation for burial. It will be sent from there to Benton Harbor Mich., where the deceased negro has a number of relatives.