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Show MR VICTIM HH RIVFJUOii Burton Steed, a Farmington Youth, Was Drowned While Fishing Friday. SALT LAKE YOUTHS MAKE PLUCKY RESCUE Owing fo Their United Efforts Another Fatalify Was Fortunately For-tunately Averted. Jordan river's treacherous waters have claimed another victim. Burton Stood, a Farmington youth, wliilo fishing fish-ing Friday afternoon, fell into tho stream eight miles northwest of Salt Lake City and was drowned. But. for the pluck of two Salt Lako youths, Clyde Papworth, of 22i) West Fifth North street, and Yenard Poulton, whoso father, James II. Poulton, runs n grocery store at 371 West South Temple Tem-ple strcot, there would havo been a double dou-ble drowning, ftulon Steed, tho dead bo3-'s elder brother, rushed to the drowning lad's assistance, but was fought u way by tho sinking youth aud would havo sunk to a wutcry grave with him but for Papworth and Poulton. Dropping their fishing poles, the plucky Salt Lake youths plunged into the stream and rescued the elder Stood lad. Pl... :rf.f..r.l nMnmltf to save the youngor Steed boy. Tho victim of tho drowning is a son of IS. A. Steed, a retired farmer living at Farmington. He, with his mother, iCrs. Clara Steed, and cider brother, Iiulou, and the family of John Steed, E. A. Stood 's brother, formed a fishing party to the river Pioneer day. Papworth Pap-worth and Poulton went out from here that morning and happened to meet the Stood party near tho sccno of tho drowning. Lad Was Too Venturesome. Young Steed appeared too venturesome, venture-some, going too near the edge of tho water, and was warned several times to keen further up on the bank. He paid little heed to tho warnings, however, and when a lqrgo fish got onto his huok ho lost his balance and fell into tho I stream, tugging and pulling at the polo. Tho water was five or six feet deep where he fell in and he immediately disappeared dis-appeared underneath tho waters. The alarm was spread and neighboring neighbor-ing fanners joined in tho search for the body. Hay forks were used with no success anil a barbed wire fence was lorn down and stretched ncross tho "stream 200 or 300 3'ards below tho scene of tho drowning. The body lodged, against this, and ono hour and ten minutes min-utes after the' falalit' it was recovered from tho waters and taken to Farming-ton Farming-ton in a wagon. Tho victim's father is a cripple. Steed was only S years old, while his brother is 14. Papworth and Poulton, tho lat tor's rescuers, arc 14 and 15, respectively. re-spectively. This is tho first drowning this summer sum-mer in the treacherous waters of tho river. Last summer it claimed several victims, some of whoso bodies were not recovered on account of deep holes in the stream. |