A3 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2018 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $2 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM SUNDAY + PLUS >> Friday Bustling The odd morning Black story of rollover Deborah Friday Pittman bargains 1C Opinion/4A Big plans for mill 2A See 2A 1 dead, 1 hurt in 2 a.m. crash Driver injured, passenger killed when pickup flips on US 441 early Saturday. From staff reports Renovation site a A Lake City man died treasure trove of Saturday morning after a pick- Lake City history. up truck he was traveling in flipped over on US Highway 441, according to a Florida By CARL MCKINNEY Highway Patrol press release. [email protected] Dead is Andrew Powell III, Glass shards form a sheet on the the release said. ground as Benny Smollack sifts At about 1:57 a.m. Saturday, a through what the crew unearthed 2008 Ford F-350 pickup driven in the past couple weeks. by John Ray Beasley, 29, of Lake A miracle cure purchased at the City, was traveling north on 441, MORE drug store that approaching the intersection INSIDE used to be down the n of County Road 240, when it Blanche street, old soda bot- left roadway onto the shoulder, renovation update, 1D. tles from back when striking multiple objects, includ- Lake City still had a ing a culvert, which caused the Coca-Cola plant — there’s no tell- truck to overturn and land on ing what other secrets lie below the its roof. Blanche Hotel. Beasley suffered serious “What is that?” Smollack says, injuries and is being treated picking up a rectangular piece of at Shands UF Health at the debris. “It says Johnson’s Chill and Fever Tonic. Haven’t seen this University of Florida. Photos by CARL MCKINNEY/LAKE CITY REPORTER; headline graphic courtesy TRACY E. MACKAY-RATLIFF before.” Neither the driver nor the This bottle, from Young’s Drug Store in Lake City, is one of construction worker Benny Smollack’s favorite finds. He plans to donate it to an heir of the owner, the The dirt-covered bottle fragment passenger were wearing seat was one of several discoveries belts. It is not known if alcohol local museum or the developer, who will put display with other artifacts. made in the last month by crews was a factor, the release said. working on the Blanche Hotel ren- ovation project in downtown Lake City. “I feel like I’m eventually going to find gold,” Smollack joked. Search In a gutted portion of the Blanche’s interior, Smollack nav- is on for igated a network of trenches in the bare ground Friday afternoon. With little light guiding his way, he armed stopped at one of several piles of glass, wood and metal fragments, robber among other assorted materials. There were bits of an old bowl From staff reports and a piece of metal Smollack con- cluded might have been part of a The Columbia County coat hanger. Over on another side Sheriff’s Office is asking the of the trench, he picked out a piece community’s help in apprehend- of burnt wood, wondering if it was ing a suspect believed to have all that’s left of a building destroyed robbed a local S&S convenience in a fire. store on Thanksgiving. “If it wasn’t for them adding On Thursday at about 7:47 the sewer down here, we never would’ve found any of that,” he p.m., sheriff’s office deputies Some of the bones found at the said. responded to a call at the S&S The recent wave of archaeologi- store on North Highway 441 site are pictured above. They have been cut cleanly, likely the cal finds started with the discovery and Deer Run Preserves about of a medicine bottle, said Smollack, an armed robbery. Despite result of a butcher’s blade. part of a plumbing crew. responding within a minute to Smollack, a plumbing crew member for the A label on the side indicates it the call, the suspect had fled Blanche Hotel renovation project, tries to fig- came from Young’s Drug Store in the scene. ure out what this metal object is or used to Lake City. be. He guessed the item, one of many artifacts ROBBER continued on 2A unearthed in recent weeks, was a coat hanger. 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