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Show 11 II TOMEIT AjreO Resident of Toquer Meet Awful Death. Drve$ Into Dry Creek Durlnj; Flood-t Flood-t Waxon Reduced to Splinter. Onelloc Drowned. Other Carried Car-ried 200 Yard Down Stream Remains of Driver Recovered NearKelscyv Nous of tlio death of .Tames Yllllams , by drownlnp. while attomptlny to croes ! Oi'y tiet-k (Im'tiB a freshet Monday e renin j, ,van v,innght t0 fedar by V"illiaml,-imh. the stage driver, last Vci'nwdiiT. The eifcumRtanue mir Ttfundimf Mr movi harrowlntr. V'll nms wa n man 77 ydnra of ago " it iilcnt : Toquervillc. llo wa tf' illij. flpuri ,n Cedar, liaylng ped-Wlc'. ped-Wlc'. tmiu nnd vegutablvn here during "$ 0 sum'ner "hou for a number of -cav. 1 Tliecxaptrontlitions under wliteh the jdgcDlli'mp.n met his death will per-JiapeHtecver per-JiapeHtecver he Itnown. it uriMOSS VlfPHV.. yuiTiveiit opinion1? are entertained as to jtnM.amer In which ho was caught p ''ie faul torrent. Somo believe he JiMMriTen Into tlie tho oracle before tho Uvalanalie came aud tho bank being Stfrr-p, his teira had becomo stitllod and ftlini be t as (n tl'.i." condition when tho .vjrall of water came. -ptfier3 r-Hei-e ho under-estimated tho depth and Telocity of tho current and ttttctuf ted to drive through while tho tibodVrttsOn. Uowevcr this may have vbe'5n, the results were most disastrous. The E&d was obliged to wait somo honfcr the 'ood to subside boforo at'ptapyng ;o cross, which accounts for It. being so lato Tucaduy. jL'hc first discovery of the accident wns mnde,4boat iioon on Tuesday, when some boys from Kanarra sighted tho Hying norse standing by the bank on the crock abojt 100 yards frdm where thnl crosses tho htream. Upou cx & Coareh was hn Ucdlately Instituted TurOhts body, which was finally discov-cred'Tucsday discov-cred'Tucsday night on tho bahk of tho creek near tfolseys. Hvo miles further below. Every vtlgo of clothing had , been torn oft by the brush and rooUH It had passed over, and It was -badly scratched and lasccratcd. The deceased burled ids wife fifteen mdnVUs f.go. lie lfcuvcs no family, and htiiUplQ out his property hi Toquer-Ylli&wllh Toquer-Ylli&wllh tho intention of returning to EiigKnd, the land of his nativity, thtt fall. " |