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The Daily Dispatch: July 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], Death of an American student in Germany. (search)
town was, a few days ago, thrown into a state of considerable excitement by a melancholy accident, which removed from the small circle of Americans resident here one of its most respectable members, and afforded, in some of its consequence, a curious illustration of German character and habits. The occurrence was the death, by drowning, of James Fitz Byrne, of St. Louis, Missouri, who had been living in Boat for nearly a year as a student in the University.--On the afternoon of Wednesday, June 8. he went with a friend, for the purpose of bathing, to one of the floating bath; which are anchored in the Rhine, opposite the town and near the further bank. These establishments, it should be said, contain only dressing-rooms; but as a safeguard against the rapidity of the current, which here flows at the rate of five or six miles an hour, a small enclosure is formed about each of them by a floating barrier of logs. Mr. Byrne had no sooner entered the water within one of these enclos