Mike Nix © Cheyenne Star Submitted by: Wanda Purcell
Wednesday evening, July 3, 1901, Mike Nix, bookkeeper of the commissary department of a railroad grade camp, located near the mouth of Long Creek, left the camp saying he was going out for a walk.
Two hours later his clothes were discovered on the bank of the creek and his body lying face downward in a pool of water, about two feet deep. The presumption is that he went direct from the camp to the pool for a bath and that the body had lain in the water nearly two hours.
The fact that there was no water in the lungs is evidence that death was not caused by drowning and sustains the theory that as he leaped from the bank the thread of life was severed by heart failure and life was extinct before the body touched the water.
The body was taken to Berlin cemetery for burial last Saturday.