The body of Oscar E. Salyer, 54 years old, of Canton, superintendent of the Illinois division of the Ohio River Barge company was found at 10:30 o’clock Sunday morning below Copperas Creek locks, near Liverpool.
Between 50 and 100 persons joined in the search for the man’s body since 4 o’clock Friday afternoon after his capsized motor boat and his hat were found in the Illinois river near where the body was discovered.
Frank and Clarence Pace and Wilton Elgin, all of Liverpool, who discovered the body, were given a $100 reward posted by Capt. Edgar Meeks of the barge company.
Sheriff Bob Cook, Lewistown, and other officials conducted an investigation after the body was found, but no details of the drowning could be learned. Officials are convinced that it was accidental. A watch found on Salyer had stopped at 8:03 a.m.
The victim spent Thursday night in his cabin, one mile east of Woodyard with some friends from Kentucky, who were visiting him while on a duck hunting trip. They left for a hunting trip early Thursday morning, leaving the victim at his cabin.
The body was found about 325 years from the hunting lodge and about 250 feet from shore.
Mr. Salyer came to Canton from Huntington, W. Va., in August, 1938, as an employee of the barge company.
Mr. Salyer was born June 9, 1886 at Forest Dale, Lawrence County, Ohio. On May 12, 1911, he married Alma Mymer, who survives, with three children.
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