H.M. Hook was born in the town of Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania, October 2nd, 1830. He later moved to Leavenworth, Kansas, where he got married in 1856. Three years later he was engaged in the contract of building the quarters of the government fort, Kearney. In 1860 he built a home for his family, eight miles east of the above fort, and bring them to that place from Leavenworth, he then engaged in the freighting business. The locality of his home was then the extreme frontier of civilization, and his experience with the Indians, some five years ago, was exciting and danger- ous. In 1867 Mr. Hook was located for a time on the Cache-a-la-Poudre river, at Laporte, Colorado, from which point he came to Cheyenne among her first settlers, and was shortly after made the first Mayor of this place, under the provisional government.
DEATH OF H. M. Hook.--By a telegram from Green River,received here yesterday evening, intelligence was received of the drowning of our fellow-townsman, H. M. Hook, Esq. The circumstances of this sad occurrence are as follows: Mr. Hook, with a party of fifteen men, left Green River station, on the line of the railroad, on the evening of the 7th instant. Their destination was a newly-discovered section, down the Green river, where had been found rich silver-bearing ledges. The party embarked in five skiffs, which contained, besides the party, the pro- visions, tools, etc., for use on the trip. After proceeding about one hundred and fifty miles, the boats encountered rapids,and striking upon the rocks, were all capsized. Two men, Mr. Hook and another, whose name we have not learned, were swept down into the rushing torrent, to meet a watery grave. The remainder of the party, with the exception of three, succeeded in reaching the shore. These three caught on a rock, where they remained for seven hours. Three comrades had left Green River station with ponies, on two of them carrying provisions, intending to overtake the party in boats, by taking a short cut by land, intercepting them at the rapids where the catastrophe occurred. One of these three having set out from the station considerably in advance of the other two, alone with his pony, nothing further was seen of him, and it is supposed he must have perished ere this. The other two, as good fortune would have it, arrived at the rapids just in the nick of time to lend their assistance in rescuing the three who clung, chilled and exhausted, to the rock in the river. Trees were felled into the stream above, in the hope that they would pass the men in such a manner as to afford means of escape. This proving of no avail, the lariats and pack ropes were joined and tied to pieces of wood which were then floated down to the men. By this means the three were rescued, in next to a dying condition. Two days were spent in search for the bodies of the two drowned men. Leaving three persons to continue the search, the remainder returned to Green River station, where they arrived yesterday. Mr. John Lyons, brother-in-law of Mr. Hook, arrived on this mornings train, from the west, bringing the particulars we have given. In the loss of Mr. Hook, his family lose a kind father and noble husband. To his wife and two children, five and seven years of age, thus bereaved, the deepest sympathies of a large circle of friends are extended, and we assure them, as some slight consolation in this terrible loss, that we believe that as a member of community, and as an upright, honorable man, no man ever stood higher in the estimation of his fellow-citizens than did Mr. Hook. He was eminently a "Western" man, having been a resident of the Territories for the past fifteen years.
DEATH OF H. M. Hook.--By a telegram from Green River,received here yesterday evening, intelligence was received of the drowning of our fellow-townsman, H. M. Hook, Esq. The circumstances of this sad occurrence are as follows: Mr. Hook, with a party of fifteen men, left Green River station, on the line of the railroad, on the evening of the 7th instant. Their destination was a newly-discovered section, down the Green river, where had been found rich silver-bearing ledges. The party embarked in five skiffs, which contained, besides the party, the pro- visions, tools, etc., for use on the trip. After proceeding about one hundred and fifty miles, the boats encountered rapids,and striking upon the rocks, were all capsized. Two men, Mr. Hook and another, whose name we have not learned, were swept down into the rushing torrent, to meet a watery grave. The remainder of the party, with the exception of three, succeeded in reaching the shore. These three caught on a rock, where they remained for seven hours. Three comrades had left Green River station with ponies, on two of them carrying provisions, intending to overtake the party in boats, by taking a short cut by land, intercepting them at the rapids where the catastrophe occurred. One of these three having set out from the station considerably in advance of the other two, alone with his pony, nothing further was seen of him, and it is supposed he must have perished ere this. The other two, as good fortune would have it, arrived at the rapids just in the nick of time to lend their assistance in rescuing the three who clung, chilled and exhausted, to the rock in the river. Trees were felled into the stream above, in the hope that they would pass the men in such a manner as to afford means of escape. This proving of no avail, the lariats and pack ropes were joined and tied to pieces of wood which were then floated down to the men. By this means the three were rescued, in next to a dying condition. Two days were spent in search for the bodies of the two drowned men. Leaving three persons to continue the search, the remainder returned to Green River station, where they arrived yesterday. Mr. John Lyons, brother-in-law of Mr. Hook, arrived on this mornings train, from the west, bringing the particulars we have given. In the loss of Mr. Hook, his family lose a kind father and noble husband. To his wife and two children, five and seven years of age, thus bereaved, the deepest sympathies of a large circle of friends are extended, and we assure them, as some slight consolation in this terrible loss, that we believe that as a member of community, and as an upright, honorable man, no man ever stood higher in the estimation of his fellow-citizens than did Mr. Hook. He was eminently a "Western" man, having been a resident of the Territories for the past fifteen years.
H.M. Hook was born in the town of Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania, October 2nd, 1830. He later moved to Leavenworth, Kansas, where he got married in 1856. Three years later he was engaged in the contract of building the quarters of the government fort, Kearney. In 1860 he built a home for his family, eight miles east of the above fort, and bring them to that place from Leavenworth, he then engaged in the freighting business. The locality of his home was then the extreme frontier of civilization, and his experience with the Indians, some five years ago, was exciting and danger- ous. In 1867 Mr. Hook was located for a time on the Cache-a-la-Poudre river, at Laporte, Colorado, from which point he came to Cheyenne among her first settlers, and was shortly after made the first Mayor of this place, under the provisional government.
DEATH OF H. M. Hook.--By a telegram from Green River,received here yesterday evening, intelligence was received of the drowning of our fellow-townsman, H. M. Hook, Esq. The circumstances of this sad occurrence are as follows: Mr. Hook, with a party of fifteen men, left Green River station, on the line of the railroad, on the evening of the 7th instant. Their destination was a newly-discovered section, down the Green river, where had been found rich silver-bearing ledges. The party embarked in five skiffs, which contained, besides the party, the pro- visions, tools, etc., for use on the trip. After proceeding about one hundred and fifty miles, the boats encountered rapids,and striking upon the rocks, were all capsized. Two men, Mr. Hook and another, whose name we have not learned, were swept down into the rushing torrent, to meet a watery grave. The remainder of the party, with the exception of three, succeeded in reaching the shore. These three caught on a rock, where they remained for seven hours. Three comrades had left Green River station with ponies, on two of them carrying provisions, intending to overtake the party in boats, by taking a short cut by land, intercepting them at the rapids where the catastrophe occurred. One of these three having set out from the station considerably in advance of the other two, alone with his pony, nothing further was seen of him, and it is supposed he must have perished ere this. The other two, as good fortune would have it, arrived at the rapids just in the nick of time to lend their assistance in rescuing the three who clung, chilled and exhausted, to the rock in the river. Trees were felled into the stream above, in the hope that they would pass the men in such a manner as to afford means of escape. This proving of no avail, the lariats and pack ropes were joined and tied to pieces of wood which were then floated down to the men. By this means the three were rescued, in next to a dying condition. Two days were spent in search for the bodies of the two drowned men. Leaving three persons to continue the search, the remainder returned to Green River station, where they arrived yesterday. Mr. John Lyons, brother-in-law of Mr. Hook, arrived on this mornings train, from the west, bringing the particulars we have given. In the loss of Mr. Hook, his family lose a kind father and noble husband. To his wife and two children, five and seven years of age, thus bereaved, the deepest sympathies of a large circle of friends are extended, and we assure them, as some slight consolation in this terrible loss, that we believe that as a member of community, and as an upright, honorable man, no man ever stood higher in the estimation of his fellow-citizens than did Mr. Hook. He was eminently a "Western" man, having been a resident of the Territories for the past fifteen years.
DEATH OF H. M. Hook.--By a telegram from Green River,received here yesterday evening, intelligence was received of the drowning of our fellow-townsman, H. M. Hook, Esq. The circumstances of this sad occurrence are as follows: Mr. Hook, with a party of fifteen men, left Green River station, on the line of the railroad, on the evening of the 7th instant. Their destination was a newly-discovered section, down the Green river, where had been found rich silver-bearing ledges. The party embarked in five skiffs, which contained, besides the party, the pro- visions, tools, etc., for use on the trip. After proceeding about one hundred and fifty miles, the boats encountered rapids,and striking upon the rocks, were all capsized. Two men, Mr. Hook and another, whose name we have not learned, were swept down into the rushing torrent, to meet a watery grave. The remainder of the party, with the exception of three, succeeded in reaching the shore. These three caught on a rock, where they remained for seven hours. Three comrades had left Green River station with ponies, on two of them carrying provisions, intending to overtake the party in boats, by taking a short cut by land, intercepting them at the rapids where the catastrophe occurred. One of these three having set out from the station considerably in advance of the other two, alone with his pony, nothing further was seen of him, and it is supposed he must have perished ere this. The other two, as good fortune would have it, arrived at the rapids just in the nick of time to lend their assistance in rescuing the three who clung, chilled and exhausted, to the rock in the river. Trees were felled into the stream above, in the hope that they would pass the men in such a manner as to afford means of escape. This proving of no avail, the lariats and pack ropes were joined and tied to pieces of wood which were then floated down to the men. By this means the three were rescued, in next to a dying condition. Two days were spent in search for the bodies of the two drowned men. Leaving three persons to continue the search, the remainder returned to Green River station, where they arrived yesterday. Mr. John Lyons, brother-in-law of Mr. Hook, arrived on this mornings train, from the west, bringing the particulars we have given. In the loss of Mr. Hook, his family lose a kind father and noble husband. To his wife and two children, five and seven years of age, thus bereaved, the deepest sympathies of a large circle of friends are extended, and we assure them, as some slight consolation in this terrible loss, that we believe that as a member of community, and as an upright, honorable man, no man ever stood higher in the estimation of his fellow-citizens than did Mr. Hook. He was eminently a "Western" man, having been a resident of the Territories for the past fifteen years.
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