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The last one had gone when Mr. Aikens had said : `` Never heard of anybody 's being brought to after more than two hours under water . Only thing we can hope for is to find the body . I 'm going to telephone to town and tell 'em to send out some dynamite . '' It was already dusk when this decision was made , and it was after nine o'clock before an automobile brought a supply of dynamite sticks and detonating caps . In the meanwhile a powerful electric searchlight had been brought over from the interurban tracks a scant mile west of the river line , and the millwheel had been shafted to the big dynamo and was generating current to flash dazzling rays of light across the water . Mayor Humphreys , from Watertown , and Mr. Aikens were chosen to set off the dynamite , while watchers lined the shores , sharp-eyed in the hope of catching sight of the body when it should come to the muddied surface of Plum Run after the dynamite had done its work . Charge after charge was set off , and countless hundreds of fish were stunned or killed by the terrific force of the explosive , but no body of a hapless sixteen-year-old boy rewarded the anxious searchers .