Extracted from The Port Arthur News (Port Arthur, TX)
Sunday, May 21, 1933

BODY FOUND IN FIVE FEET OF WATERS BY BOYS

Efforts To Revive 7-Year-Old Billy Jordan Of Portacres Fail

A hole in the ground caused by a blast of dynamite set off by oil geologists that had later filled with water and served as a swimming hole to youths of Portacres, claimed its first victim Saturday.

Bill Jordan, 7, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Jordan, of Portacres, drowned about 2:40 p.m. Saturday. His body was found in about five feet of water by Tommy Monk, 17, and Orville Ingalls, 18, who were also swimming in the hole. They found the body after they had suddenly missed the youngster whom they had instructed to leave the swimming hole ``because he was turning blue and looked weak,'' they said. The boy apparently sank to the bottom of the pool as he attempted to make his way to the back.

Ingalls and Monk used artificial respiration and when, after a time it looked like life was being revived, they rushed the boy to St. Mary's hospital in a private automobile. A call was sent in to Grammier's for an inhalator but it failed to revive the boy. After the body had been removed to Grammier's a mortester was used to make certain that there was no sign of life in the body.

Besides the parents, the boy is survived by his brother, Clyde, and grandmother, Mrs. G. W. Monk, all of Portacres.

The body will be taken to Oakdale, La. Sunday. Funeral services will be held there Monday.