| Show me MOTHER SEES BABE DASHED TO DEATH f i 4 t Child of Mr and Mrs ills William V l i Johnson Drowned F I t 4 tJ J I GARRIED INTO A FLUME FLUMEt t J JI I CUT OITT LI OP OF OPA o oI 1 I I I II II I I J A moat m dial 41 i earing accident happened I Hi a a out t I 8 o Cl ck ck last Jaet evening on c L LI I street reet Just above Sixth in which a aI I I I ittle claM child of Mi and aDd Mrs Mr William I Johnson Johnen T was drowned in li a flume lume One Of the moat pathetic features of the F I accident ta ii that the mother of the child I saw a w the tile little fellow fall faU into the ditch t hi fn front of her door but before I she ahe could coald get 10 o 0 him he had been cat ned ried Into he covered flume over thiry feet making maUng it t impossible for her to toI I get et him Hr Kr agonized agonised screams brought brough t tI I the te neighbors to the scene acme e and it was wasI wasely I only ely by force that the distracted wom worn woman 1 an all 14 could be prevented from going into I the lame fume which would have meant II I r certain death to her as well as to t the child One of the neighbors ne Albert I I Jackson Jack oD did try to go o into the lume after the child bUd but was almost almo t suffocated and was pulled out by W IV V H Bywater Robert and others othere I who W o happened to be close clo e by Mrs Lyman a neighbor threw al aI her bedding into the ditch and thus thug I k shut abut off 0 the water and a II minute later J I i It was turned into another r channel thumel f I I Then Thea th of digging for the child I j was wan commenced but bot as an the flume was I F over thirty feet and it was at atI f I least at three feet underground und it was w 1 twenty minutes before the child was taken taka out He was found at last by byl l t Late Lafe Johnson a brother of the father F At first It was thought that he still 2 lived 11 and all that t was possible was wast t done to 0 resuscitate him but In vain t Dr Bower power Dr Nile and aDd Dr McCur McCurtain I tIn tain were brought b t in as quickly as asI I i they could be secured but they could I I do 40 nothing f F The child was S a II fine fint healthy boy of ofU ofF F Iff U 1 months He was on the sidewalk A when he be fell feU into the ditch The rhe wa water water WaI ter tei at that point was a foot or more deep and aDd running swiftly so 80 that he hewatt watt was swept into the wooden flume be before before I fore tore his mother could get to him The Thet t flume tat is about eighteen inches square quare and there were uprights some twenty jive five feet from the opening that caught the child as in a II trap and prevented 1 him Im from being washed through of that part of town con COIl condemn the city officials for gross care carelessness I i This in the street is from trona three to six feet teet de deep dePp p It carries the water from rem Emigration canyon down over r the north bench Many pe petitions have been presented pre by the peo pea people F pie to have b it covered to prevent just such accidents as happened last even een evening I ing ug On Oa L street where this accident happened ed the ditch is regarded as a menace to man and beast and the wonder weeder is that serious accidents have not DOt happened before There was wasI great eat Indignation expressed by the I people test last evening and the t general I 1 sentiment ell t favored an inquest over aver the body of little tittle Ernest Johnson in order Jl to bring this matter before the eople The inquest was wan not de determined I I upon lat last night |
