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Show w A CHILD DROWNED. Ttw Treacherous Jordan Claims Another Victim This Morning. FELLI FROM THE RAILWAY BRIDCE. The Parents Crazed with Grief A I.arge Party Now at Work Searching I For the Ho.ly. Between 10 and 11 o'clock this morning, the 8-year-old child of Mr. Anderson, the well-known milk dealer who resides just over the Jordan, went with some other children chil-dren to the bridge being Innlt by the Saltair Railway company across the river, and the little one walked out on the trestle work. When about half way across, the child fell into the water, and the others at once ran to Mr. Anderson's house and informed him of what had occurred. The parents were almost crazed with grief, and the sad accident created the most intense excitement in the neighborhood. A party was at once organized to search for the body, boats were proeurred, and the work was commenced without delay. Coroner Harris was notified at 11:30, and at once repaired to the scene, but no trace of the body had been found. The coroner returned to the city at 1 o'clock to obtain grappling irons and other implements im-plements to assist the searchers, and went back to the river again as quickly a possible. So far as can be learned, no one was to blame for the sad accident. |