Show SHOCKING CASUALTY A Young Man and Two Children Chil-dren Drowned THE BODIES NOT RECOVERED The Childrens Mother a Witness to tho Sad Fitality Flurttneof a Dead Maun Body Special to THE HERALD OGDEN April 6Speoial to THE HKEALD One of the saddest events I which it has ever be n our duty to chronicle took place today The wife of William Wilson the sawyer in Ogden Canyon with their two little girls aged respectively about 5 and 7 years went on the river in a boat for a little recreation Presently Mrs Wilson Wil-son returned and a young man from North OgdeowhosB name we could not learn up to the time of t legraphing 111 oclock tonight took hor place on the boat the two children remaining at the time Mr Wilson himself it is said was up town The young man in questionit appears pushed out on the river with his two little feminine charges and all went wtll until they reached the vicinity vicin-ity of the dam near the rapids When the roaring turrents it is surmised sur-mised overwhelmed him and becoming becom-ing excited he lost control of his boat resulting in tbe craft with its precious load being swept down the rapids into the surging water below and or nol known where As soon as the 6 a j rut affair became known at the say kill Mr Wilsons brother who is engaged by the Central Pacific at the depot was telephoned to and assistance called for from the city officials A posse of brave and largehearted men were immediately patched with Councilor Joseph Clark et their head to erest wires across the river at a certain point where the water is turned into the creek which provides the motive power for the machinery at Clark Eccles grist mill in the hope of preventing pre-venting the waters from carrying the bodies any farther along their course What they have been able to accomplish we cannot state as up to a late hour they had not returned It is a dreadful blow to both the father and mother and especially so to the latter who it is said suffered what must have been indescribable in-describable agony in seeing her darling children swept over the dam into the rapids below The father on hearing the news was overcome and at last accounts ac-counts strong and manly though he is he was said to be broken hearted Mr and Mrs Wilson are highly respected re-spected by tbe whole community whose sympathy they have in their sudden and to human seme cruel loss I DEAD BODY FOUND OGDEN April 2G midnightSpecial to THE HERALD The men sant to search the river for the young man and the two little children came across the dead body of a man The marshal with Police Officer James Brown and others brought the body to town tonight about 10 oclock and gave it in charge of the city sexton Your correspondent was on the scene and would judge the man to be about 40 years of age apparently a respectable respect-able workingman His appearance would indicate that life must have been extinct several weeks as his hands and ears are in an advanced state of decomposition de-composition He seems to have bEe about five feet ten inches or six feet tall and to all appearances in robust health He is of dark complexion hEavv black moustache and black hair and his outward clothing is composed of blue denim overalls and jumper He is apparently a stranger in the town as no one seems to have any knowledge as to who he is Various guesses were indulged in by the officers and others present as to how he came by his death some thinking think-ing suicide some murder and others attributing it to accident It would be premature to venture an opinion opin-ion at this juncture without further particulars but his appearance has indications in-dications ot violence which might have been sustained by accident or by another or by himself His forehead has quite a large indentation in the front and his right temple and cheek have considerable embrosnres An inquest will be held over the dead body by Justice Dee tomorrow The sum of 6235 was found in a purse in his pocket |