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Show INTENDED BRIDE DROWNS IN RIVER Ba&y Containing Miss Rose Phillips and John W. Burton, Bur-ton, Jr., Overturned in Ogden River. OGDEN, April 15-Miss Bom' Phillips Phil-lips of this city was drowned in the Og-den Og-den river in Ogden canyon about 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The young woman had gone for a b.uggy ride up the canyon with John W. Burton, Jr. As they were returning to the city and at a point near the Lewis ranch, the horse took fright at two boys riding horseback and shied toward the river. The bnggy was thrown with its occupants occu-pants into the river, the horse follow-ing. follow-ing. Miss Phillips waa thrown several feet from tha bank and was carried down by the rushing current. Burton was washed against a clump of willows and was able to cling there till assistance came. Mr. Lewis, who had witnessed the accident, telephoned to the sanitarium and to the eity for assistance. In less than an hour him-' dreds of persons lined the banks of the stream. In the meantime the body of Miss Phillips had been carried down stream more than two miles, where it lodged against a large boulder in the middle of the river. At the risk of bis life Ous Bcudder managed to reach the body and place a rope around it, after which it was brought to the bank. The body was badly cut and bruised. The horse and bugonr had gone on down stream and have not yet Deen found. Miss Phillips was the nineteen-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O. Phillips of this city, and was to have been married to Burton in a short time. Mrs. Phillips was dangerously danger-ously ill at the time of the tragic death of her daughter, and it is feared that I the shock will kill her. |