Show fUTILE SEARCH fOR BOYS BODY River Jordan Dragged in Vain for Remains of Willie Willi McKittrick I Another da day was spent In a fruitless search for the body of Willie who was drowned In Jordan river Tues Tuesday Tuesday day The pOlice renewed the search early earb yesterday morning when t the e patrol ar arrived rived with ith a number of patrolmen under Sergeant Hemple They searched the stream from tile the place where the boy slipped In to a point above Eighth North street A dozen men with hooks dragged the bottom from the shore They brought up dead animals and debris of an all kinds but did not recover any trace of the boys body or clothing A boat started at the mouth of the river riEr and came UP stream to l Fifth where the accident occurred Three large hooks w were re attached to the line A rope was stretched across the river and the themen men In the boat pulled It to and fro across the so that all of the hot torn tom the tho entire distance was dragged The Th boat set out at daybreak and did not ar rive live at Fifth South until late In the after noon Dynamite Mer In Search At 3 the policemen who were working lu In the river in the morning were relieved by another squad under Serg Sergeant Roberts They brought with them a box I of d dynamite The blasting was done un her del the supervision of Butch Cassidy I a member of the pollee force who Is an experienced miner Thc They blasted the stream until sundown and covered four fourt t blocks They started at the place where the boy was drowned and wilt blasting until the body Is found or the I end of the stream reached Six to ten sticks of dynamite were put In a charge exploded about every ft In the deep holes extra large lare charges w were re eXI exploded When the ch charges went off a large volume of water would be thrown fifty feet in the all air and would be sent up on the bank Immediately af aftel after tel ter the explosion the stream would be parA par partially covered with dead fish Ish and other debris thrown up by the force of the ex cx explosion The river was lined with men and boys bos who dived In the water and helped In the search for orthe the body After each explosion slon sion hundreds of fish were taken out of the water Most lost were chubs suckers minnows and carp There were a few rout and bass Immense specimens of carp were caught some weighing ten pounds The blasting will be continued today toda |