Show I LOST LIFE IN JORDAN George Crowther Drowned in Treacherous Stream BROTHER TRIED TO SAVE HIM Tho Unfortunate Lad Had Gone in Bathing and Got Beyond His Depth As He Sank from View His Brother William Plunged in to Rescue Him but the Body Could Not be Found Search Resumed at I Daylight this Morning The Boys Mother Almost Prostrated i I I George Crowther the 18yearold son I of William J Crowthcr went fishing t yesterday afternoon against tho In i structlons of his parents and ho now lies dead at the bottom of the treacherous treach-erous Jordan river The boy lost his lifo shortly before S oclock last evening 1 even-ing while bathing in the stream at a point one mile west of the Union stockyards I stock-yards northwest of the copper plant 1 A searching party was unable to recover i re-cover the lifeless form last night I At the time the lad sank beneath tho water his elder brother William I Georgo Crowther Crowthcr and a young man named Eugene Eu-gene Barton were with him The three had been fishing along the river during the afternoon and they decided to end ant the pleasure trip wlh a swim STRUCK ADEEP HOLE George Crowther was undressed and in the water frt followed shortly by Barton The boy began wading downstream down-stream along the center of the shallow river and had traveled some little distance dis-tance before the others missed him Suddenly there nas a cry of terror and the brother who was undressing on the bank lookedup Just in time to see George throw up his hands struggle strug-gle on the surface of the water for an instant and then disappear He did not reappear and there was barely a I ripple a moment later to show where the unfortunate bOy bad gone down HURRIED TOTHE RESCUE William Crowther quickly cast his remaining I re-maining garments aside and plunged into the river at the place where his young brother had disappeared He found the water far beyond his depth at that point but being a good swimmer 1 swim-mer he began swimming and diving I about in search of the unfortunate lad Not until he was completely exhausted did William giveup the search as useless use-less SEARCHING P RTY ORGANIZED Bartpn in the meantime had dressed himself and hurried to the Union stockyards stock-yards a mile distant Here a searching search-ing party of four men was organized I but when the river was again reached darkness prevented a further prosecution prosecu-tion of the search The party made Its I way back to the stockyards leaving behind the brother of the unfortunate boy who at daylight this morning assisted as-sisted by friends who had been notified noti-fied resumed the search for the body PARENTS NOTIFIED OF DROWNING DROWN-ING The boys parents knew nothing of 1 his fate until nearly 10 oclock last night when thencus was broken to them at their home SIlO West North Temple The mother wasalmost prostrated pros-trated bythe l sad Intelligence She staggered toward the Jlront gate to go in search of her boy and was kept back with difficulty The father and mother who are getting get-ting well along In years had been cut to Lagoon during the day They had loft the place In charge of young George Instructing him not to go away and leave the house uncared for When they returned aboiU dusk the lad with the two men had taken Mr Crowthera team and drove oft on the fatal pleasure plea-sure trip The dead boy was born In Salt Lake and is well known and highly respected In the city |