Lost Horse Fire Drowning Fatality 1929

Thomas Gorman, a miner living in Butte, Montana, was assigned for 19 days to the Lost Horse Fire on the Bitterroot National Forest south of Hamilton. After the work day ended at 1600 on August 28, 1929, Gorman left camp, likely to bathe in the nearby creek in a swimming hole created by a beaver dam. Here his body was discovered, evidently a victim of accidental drowning. His body was retrieved with great difficulty and carried by stretcher over nine miles to a road where it was received by Ranger Shockley in a truck. 

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