Williamsport - An eighty year-old Bradford man, W. W. Holly, is listed among those missing in the wreck of a lumber raft smashed against a bridge in the Susquehanna River. 

   The body of one man, W. C. VanScoyce of Philadelphia, was recovered, and search for the other six missing, including Mr. Holly, was conducted today. Forty-eight were on the raft when it was wrecked. 

   The others missing are Thomas Proffett, Universal Newsreel cameraman, Chester, Pa., Dr. Charles F. Taylor, dentist and Burgess of Montgomery, Pa., Harold Barringer, Tyrone, Pa.; member of the crew; Harry Connors, Burnside, Pa., chief pilot; and Malcom McFarland, Towanda, Pa. 

   The raft, symbol of the logging industry which vanished when the railroad supplanted canals and rivers as freight carriers, crashed into the concrete pier while pilot Connors, manning the bow sweep, sought to avert the accident. The raft had brushed against a highway bridge and veered sideways into the stream. It struck the railway bridge with the full force of the swift current before the crew could bring the unwieldy craft under control. 

   Connors was apparently killed when the impact threw him headlong into the concrete pier. His body sank befor rescuers could reach him. 

  Proffett was making pictures of the crowd which lined the banks and had no warning. He disapeared beneath the water, his camera still in his hands. 

   The raft, built of 35,000 feet of timber, was launched at McGees Mills, Clearfield county, March 15, to travel 400 more miles downriver to Harrisburg where the timber was to be sold. 

   R. D. Tonklin, Tyrone, sponser of the "last raft" said its trip commemorated the centennial of the arrival of his forefathers at the headwaters of the Susquehanna's West Branch. He said the raft would be repaired and coninue down the river. 

   Albert Grove, Bradford postal clerk, who escaped drowning when the raft was wrecked, has notified relatives in Bradford that he will remain near the scene of the accident for several days to secure definite information concerning the fate of Mr. Holly. 

   Mr. Grove said he was helpingthe oarsmen at the back of the craft when the crash came and that he was washed into the water with the other men. ? managed to grab an oar, he s? and swim back to the raft. 

   He said that he did not see Mr. Holly, but believed him to have been at the front end with most of the other passengers. 

  Mr. Grove and Mr. Holly boarded the raft at Lock Haven. 

  Mr. Holly was born at Myrtle, in the northeastern corner of McKean County, June 6,1857, the son of William Holly, pioneer lumberman who operated at Myrtle and Ceres who had settled in this county more than 100 years ago. After following the lumbering industry for years, W. W. Holly became a carpenter. His wife, Mrs. Uphema Hemple Holly, was fatally injured in an automobile accident nine years ago. 

   Mr. Holly, a resident of Bradford for the past two years, returned to his farm at Myrtle last year to take an active part in harvesting. Clinging to the carpenter trade in his late years, Mr. Holly had constructed a house in Shinglehouse last fall, it is said. 

   A member of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, Local No. 124, he had been employed by the Tuna Manufacturing Company for a number of years. A member of the Shinglehouse First Baptist Church and the Odd Fellows Lodge there, Mr. Holly has many friends throughout this section. 

   His daughter, Miss Christine Holly, is a teacher in the third ward school. Another daughter, Mrs. Sadie Munger, resides in Frewsburg, N.Y. He has two cousins, Mrs. Kit Coon, who resides at the Holly home, and Mrs Sena B. Collins of Bradford.