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Show A SAD DEATH Hopkins boy Drowned in Logan River. Yesterday afternoon Oia I). Hopkins, Hop-kins, aged eleven vears, was diowned In Logan Rlvei. He, with Howatd Rogcis, aged about ten .vears, attempted at-tempted to ford the liver near the "sand bank" about a mile east of Logan. Lo-gan. They were unable to stand against the current and were swept down the river. The Rogers boy succeeded In clinging to some brush and was rescued by C. J. Linblad. Tlic alarm was given and hundreds of people rushed to the river banks and Joined in the search for the body of the boy, Ills father, .lohn Hopkins, Hop-kins, found the lifeless body lodged against some biush about one mile below Logan. The body was found at 0:30 o'clock and though It had been In the water one and a half hours, Dis. Budge & Calderwood used every means to restore re-store life but this Availed naught. This Is a severe blow and the pa-rents pa-rents have the slncera sympathy of the Entire community. |