| Show Young M Man an n 1 Drowns Towns In Reservoir I David Howardton aged 18 wa was I drowned in the reservoir a mil mile I west of Delta Della on Wednesday af- af croon when he and two other othe youths were testing a motor boat boa Thursday David Howardton together with wit his brother Danile both of Los Angeles AnI Angeles An An- I geles and Maxie Maxle Johnson of Provo Provo Pro Pro- i vo were motor boat riding on th the reservoir near the Jackson farm tarn when the accident occurred Howardton Howardton Howardton How How- was testing the motor with wit intentions of buying It They had hat constant trouble with the motor moto and the boat started stalled to leak Thee They were out about 75 yards when the boat capsized They clung to the boat for a few minutes then David Davie decided he would swim to shore The other two boys tried to get gel him not to but he was determined so they helped him take of off hi his leather coat and one of f the heavy cowboy boots he was was was' wearing He swam about thirty feet and apparently apparently ap ap- decided he couldn't make makeI I jt it and started to swim back to the bout He got part way when his brother Daniel could see that he was not going to make It so Daniel Daniel Dnniel Dan Dnn- iel started to swim toward him and got within about six feet of his brother as he was Pl going down for the last time Daniel swam back to the boat and he and Maxie Johnson clung to it for about 45 minutes when it t drifted to shore The boys rushed rushed rushed rush rush- ed into Delta for help Sheriff Forster Olaf ala Dekker and Arthur Reeve helped organize divers divers div div- ers and searches in an effort to lo loate locate locate lo- lo cate ate the body Five special Army divers livers were obtained from the Japanese Japanese Japanese Jap Jap- anese Relocation Center to try to find the body About 5 pp p. p m m. m Ray Stevens Reid and Kennard Kennard Ken- Ken nard Zard Carter of Hinckley were out outon outon on in a raft when they found the drowned frowned boys boy's leather coat his hat hatan hatan hatin an in check book floating Thursday morning Elmer Carling state road together with vitti rib about ut 75 volunteers s 's sv v were vere i dragging the reservoir with large steel teel hooks and a large drag net in n power boats they had brought over ever from Fillmore At about 1230 Thursday noon the body was recovered by the men working in a boat belonging to the editor of oC the Progress E E. Vance Wilson Olson The body was hooked byne byone by byone one ne of the large grab hooks they were rere dragging It was found about about a- a bout out thirty yards from where the boat coat capsized The other boat used used us us- ed d belonged to Londo Dearden of Fillmore ill more The depth of the water where the he boat capsized was about fifteen teen een feet The two boys who came here in April from their home in Los Angeles Angeles An An- geles eles have been working at the Relocation Center and had just quit their jobs and were preparing to o go home when the accident oc oc- The reservoir varies In Its depth and nd places may be found quite deep Jeep as It Jt Is built bunt on the stream channel hannel subject to varying bot bot- II tom om This is the fifth firth drowning In the Gunnison Bend Reservoir Many years ago a man lost his life fe below the flume which is the upper end of the reservoir Sam Powells Powell's daughter lost her life in inthe Inthe I the he reservoir while bathing and some ome years ears later Miss Taylor was drowned there Larson was the fourth and Howardton the fifth The body of th the young man was taken aken to the Nickle Mortuary and his its parents notified The parents are Lre expected to arrive here within a 1 short time |
