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Show IINY El. MEETS WITHJMEIC EID Florence Wearing, Eight Years Old, Crushed to Death Xear Her Home. BODY NOT DISCOVERED FOR MORE THAN A DAY Mangled Remains Found Under Tons of Earth. Rock and Lumber. "Missing sinco 13 o'clock Thursday afternoon, Florence Dearing, the oight-3'car-old daughter of Mrs. Conrad Millor of 15G West First North etroot, was found doad and buried under a pilo of rock, earth and lumber, in an ezcava-tion, ezcava-tion, Friday afternoon, about 4:30 o'clock. Tho terrible discovery was mado by Earl Snell, tho fourtcen-j-ear old son of J. J. Snell, living at tho corner of First North aud Apple streets, in the rear of whoso home r.ho sad calamity occun-cd. The little girl left her home Thursday afternoon, after telling her mother that sho was going out to play. At 6 o'clock the child had not roturueu and tho mother, becoming worried, bogan bo-gan a search. Mr. Miller, tho chila's stepfather, came homo at 7;30 o'clock and joined in the search. Searched for Hours. Mr. Miller searched for hours, going to the homes of neighbors whero tho child was in the habit of going to play. The police were then notified. Wearied by the long hours of search, tho Millers retired to their home, with tho hope that morning would bring somo uews of the missing girl. Just as dawn was breaking Mr. and Mrs. Miller aroso from their beds and resumed the search. Mr. Miller went to the police again and then went to the excavation, whore the bod.y was finally found, but although ho looked about carefully he did not discover anything to indicate that the child had been there. In their search tho only cluo secured by tho Millers was that tho child had gone to a grocery store, near her home, and purchased candy some time closo to 4:60 o'clock Thursday afternoon. When tho child did not return and nothing more was learned about her, it was thought by Mr. Miller that possibly she might have, in some manner, gotten under tho lumber, rock and earth which was known to have fallen into the excavation ex-cavation some timo during Tbursda' aftornoon. Discovery Is Made. Men then began to removo tho lumber, lum-ber, and after nearly all of it ImJ neon displaced from tho pilo of rock and earth, Earl Snell, who was standing close by, observed the child's headgear, which was a woolen knit affair, and pointed it out lo tho men. Before any I morn digging was done tho police wuro notified, and at 5:30 o'clock SergVa.it John Roberts and Lieutenant RicheUu Shannon had taken out the crushed and bruised body of the unfortunate little one. The body, at the request of the stepfather, was then taken on a stretcher in tho polico patrol to the undertaking un-dertaking rooms of O'Donuell & Co. It is Biipposcd by the mother and stepfather that the child, after purcha- ing the candy, went to tho pilo of lumber, lum-ber, which was situated diroctly on tho odgo of the excavation, to eat tha sweets. Tho earth under the pile ot lumber evidently gavo way whilo t'io child wafl seated there, and ' she was tumbled down into tho cellar and her lifo crushed out. Owiug to tho fact that tho body was severely crushed, bruised and 'cut, thero is virtually no question that death was instantaneous. |
