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Show TRAGIC END OF I Little May Eite Loses Her Life in Swift Waters of City Creek. FAMILY LEAVES THE CITY H TO SPEND A QUIET DAY H When Child Is Found One Little, . H Naked Foot Is Sticking H Out of Water. B Tragedy entered and darkened the, home of Robert Eite, of the Robert Eito Candy company, at 670 Fifth streetj with the Fourth of July, Thursdaj', Wlrjj Salt Lake generally was engaged in a raging demonstration of the day the tragedy was being enacted in City Creek canyon, threo and one-half miles northeast of the city. Litflc May Eite. the thrce-3'ear-old daughter of Robert Eite, was drowned in the relentless waters of the creek. The drowning occurred between noon and 2 o'clock. Robert Eite and faintly, coasting o Mrs. Eitc and four children, and C. H Campbell. Mr. "Kite's brother-in-law, early Thursday morning left the city for a day's outing m City Creek ean3'on above the city, every member filled with a quiet happiness in anticipation of tho da3''s joys away from the hef.i, grime; turmoil and noises of the crowded city. There was an indescribable difference is the spirits of the returning party. Luncheon Not Eaten. The party stopped near the banks of City Creek canyon about four miles northeast of the city and arranged to eat the midday meal. The preparations were futilel for the luncheon never was eaten. While Mr. Eite and his son were watering the horses that drew them to tho camping place and Mrs. Eitc and her other daughters were arranging- the luncheon, little May obtained a tin cup and wandered off to the stream, sup-posedly sup-posedly to get a drink. This waa short-ly short-ly before noon. About 12:30 her absence from the party was noticed, she failing to re-spond re-spond to the father's call for luncheon. Search was begun and the first place visited was the watering place at the stream, although the smaller children had been warned to keep away from the water. Nothing was discovered there and the party divided in the 'search, Mr. Eite going up stream and Mr. Campbell down, spreading the alarm as t.hey went. Mr. "Campbell had not gone far when a woman of the neighborhood told him she had seen a little girl in the stream. Mr. Campbell hastened onward, aud about a quarter of a mile from the camp ho saw a tin- foot, unprotected by any shoe, protruding from some brush in the waters. Gentle hands hastily removed tho body, the head of which' was resting on the' bottom of tho stream, disclosing for a certainty the identity of the victim. The mnd waters had robbed the body of its life probably an hour before. Mother Swoons. jH Word of tho finding of the lifelcs! , jH body was conveyed back to the frantic parents. The shock to Mrs. Eito waa so great that she swooned, and for a time her life was despaired of. Dr. II. Is'. Mayo was called and tho grief- stricken w'oniau revived somewhat. Foh lowing tho lifeless body of her litth daughter next to the youngest child Mrs. Eitc, apparently lifeless, wa's brought to her home." For some lime tho attention of two physicians wai given to her there. The drowned girl was one of a family of five children, the others being Fernio, the voungest; Robbie, Alice, Thehna and Ethel.' JM At the point where the body was found the water is cightoon inches deep. On account of tho incline, the turbulent waters have a velocity great enough al-most al-most to carry a strong mau from hii feet. The mad waters had carried tho bodv over rocks und through oue pile of brush into the second, which caught and was strong enough to hold the child by the foot until Mr. Campbell arrived. A' shoe had been torn from one of tho little girl's feet. Tho funeral has not been arranged. |