Show I I I i 4 Brother of Thomas m Matthews Says He Was Pushed cJ Water by Companion 1 CALL RESCUER TOO LATE LATEk I i k 7 OHN LD LIFE SAVER sAV R Ji FINDS CHILDS BOD j Thomas Tl m Mathews the son of ofT T W Mathews an the c Utah Light Railway company East First South street was drowned yester yesterday yes er day afternoon about 1 In the res reservoir east cast of ot Mt tIt Olivet cemetery His body b dy was not recovered for Jor nearly fifty minutes after he hod disappeared s beneath the tho surface of the water wa and ahu although every ever effort was made jt revive him his res rescuers cuers were Ie to revive the tho spark of life The story told by his companions la 11 conflicting His younger brother Glade Mathews who accompanied ac him states that the two Mathews boys bos left lett their home shortly before noon with Lloyd Llod Davis a colored boy hoy 11 years ears of or age who lives at East First South Tho boys went to the cemetery and the thc two colored boys took off their clothes cl with the Intention of or going Into the water Glade Mathews says lYS that they the teased and dared his brother Tom to go gi in also and even wanted him to go Says Boy EJoy Was Pushed In When Tom fiad Iad removed his clothes he frightened and refused to enter the water He was standing on the bank facing away awa from the water when ac according cording to Glade Lloyd Davis pushed him himoff off of the bank Into the water ater The Tho other boys bos watched his struggles str for lor some time Um I l i j 4 THOMAS MATHEWS From a photograph taken several years ago believing that he was all right but when ho had sunk three times Carl Scott be became became came frightened and waded Into the wa water water ter after atter him The reservoir deepens gradually for several feet reet from the bank when it suddenly attains a depth of six or eight feet teet The bank where the boys entered was nearly opposite the outlet and the body of ot the drowning boy was drawn beyond Scotts roach reach by tile the current to toward toward ward the outlet Seeing that they could not reach the drowning boy Scott and Lloyd Davis hastily sUpped slipped on their clothes and ran to the tho cemetery where they notified a number of or men employed there Those These men at once telephoned to police headquarters and Chief Pitt and Detectives Chase and Janney hurried to the scene in a patrol wagon Before they the arrived John McDonald the engineer of the electric locomotive on the Emigration Canyon Canon line had arrived at the reservoir Stripping off his clothes cloth s he began diving for the body He finally discovered It near the outlet In an almost perpendicular position position tion and hastily hasUly carried it to the bank bankHe bankHe He was Joined by the police officers and they worked over the body bod for an hour hur hurand and a halt half When It was finally de determined determined that life was extinct the tho body was taken to tho Mathews home The Davis boy and the Scott boy both assert that they did not push young oung Mat Mathews hews into Int the water but that on the contrary they warned him against going In They did not return to the reservoir after atter giving the tho alarm but ran home Im Immediately mediately Dangers of Reservoir The reservoir has claimed more mora than one victim and Is surrounded by b notices stating that bathing Is forbidden The bottom of or the reservoir is thickly thIck grown with weeds and extremely dangerous for foreen even een an expert swimmer None of the boys of the party part were able to swim The police department Is making an in rn investigation of ot the affair and the colored boys bos will be examined by Chief Pitt this morning at 10 John McDonald who found the bod has a splendid record as a life saver He was formerly a resident of ot Auckland New Zealand where he saved seven persons from drowning He Is the proud possessor of a medal from the Australasian society and also from the British Humane so 50 society clety for saving life lite The English medal was forwarded to him in this country countr and was presented to him publicly by Mayor James Sharp years ago |