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Show SMALL BO? DROWNED Meets Death While Crossing lhalk Creek: Podv Not ? Yet Found. Special to The Tribune. COALVILLE. June 11. While crossing cross-ing Chalk creek about two miles cast of this cit.y in a delivery wagon belonging belong-ing to the Coalville Co-Op at 9 o'clock this morning. Willie Clark, the 12-year-old son of W. S. Clark, a well known resident of Coalville, was thrown from (he wagon and drowned' in the creek. The lad was riding in the wagon with the teamster, and as they were fording the river, the team ran into a hole which the current had washed out in the .bed of the creek, overturning the wagon and throwing the occupants out. The teamster was thrown under the wagou, but the boy was instantly washed down tho siren ui by the swift current. The teamster finally reached the shore, almost al-most drowned himself. His cries aroused some people living nearby, who immediately imme-diately rushed to the rescue and succeeded suc-ceeded in getting the team and wagon out of lie river. A search was instituted for the body of the boy. but, at a late hour tonight no trace had been found. The accident occurred not far away from the Wasatch Was-atch mine, and the mine was closed down in order that the men employed thero might search for the body of the boy. It is supposed that his body has been washed dowu the river and probably prob-ably caught in some brush overhanging its "banks. Tho search will be resumed tomorrow. |