Deseret Evening News | 1898-05-17 | Page 5 | Says a Salt Laker Was Drowned

SAYS A SALT LAKER WAS DROWNED Reported Death of Swiflwater Bill at Lake Un dermanTlie Story Denied A peclal dispatch to the San Fran risen Chronicle from Bkoguiy under dot of May 9th uy fifporte whose Credibility there its no reason for ques UonlnK m y that SMrtwater Bill nates and three member of his Part ere drowned last Saturday near Carl boo crossing Two of Oatf s > com mnloln In death were womtn one of them being Nellie Lamore his sister l In10 The nome of the other has not yet ben ascertained The second man In the quarte was J S M Wolfe of Bait Jake Dates partner The first rumor of the disaster to the Swlftwator Mill expedition reached pkaguir on Sunday No details of tho drowning wHe glnn nd tho Cn I adln 1lIc olcllo 1 dlocredlted It the OCeoo tory WOl oet down as a canard ema natlnS from oom of Gatess I asgac u seNera ere he 101 Sine tnen evr paOKn wnu cJUne from Lake Bennett have corroborated corrob-orated the rumor nd It nov seems certain hot the most widely known nf 1 Ryhknew nom e Ryh II tM Elondikerm hs perlhed In I the clmnt from which ho derived his nickname A circumstantial count of how Calls and the thr unfortunate who andlitge jet were with him met heir Math wa ob tabled today from C H Zumwlt He is I proprietor of the Lk Bennett hotel aDd sw the Gates party set out for Carlhoa crossing below Lake nnnett near Lake Tallish on Saturday mornIng morn-Ing 1Ie says that he vas gIven the clrcumtnes of the dronninn by per sang who claimed to have talked with eyewitnesses 10 It The dllpatches today tell of an IntervieW In-tervieW At Seattle yesterday with one J G WIIon who denies I the story oft of-t drowning saying that he saw the tire party three dOs after the al leged disaster