Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1916-09-04 | Page 9 | Leaps into River with Her Two Babes

lEAPS RIVER WITH HER TWO PAlO BABES Tragic Act of Mother Results in Loss of Three Lives Special to Tho The Herald Reno Nev Nei Sept 3 With With her two children a a. little boy aged 4 years and anda a little girl aged IS 18 months pinned to her wl Mrs th Irs Susie Smith of or tF Verdi UL u IL unu in lIe pow r compans compan's s at the at o'clock yester rester- day afternoon The Tho rapidly moving water carried the bodies about two miles to the thc spillway near noar Verdi where the tho dead bodies of or the mother and boy were vero found last night lodged ed In rocks near the tho spillway The body of ot tho the little girl was found Cound this morning just below tho the spillway where It had been washed up on tho the rocke rocks The Tho tragic act let of or tho the woman was caused b by grief grieC over o the death of or her hem husband Frank Frnnk Victor Smith who was drowned at the same spot on May Ia 10 of oC this year car