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Article in Hagerstown Daily Mail, 1900 - "Noah Nally Drowned"

Locktender Goes Down to Death in Chaney's Lock.

His Hat Found By His Wife

Floating on the Water-Body is Recovered- Believed to Have Been An Accident.

Noah R. Nally, locktender at Lock #43, known as Chaney's Lock on the C. & O. Canal, below Williamsport, was drowned in the lock between 5 & 6 o'clock Monday evening. His body was recovered later in the canal about fifty feet below the lower lock.