Show IV O AR ARE NED WARNING I IN SV nOlE O Comrades Comrad s 's Watch While Water Claims Victims Bodies Recovered s 's 5 grim rim hand opened and closed yesterday and in the closing snuffed out the lives of Douglas an and Wallace Johnson Johnson John John- son 30 10 0 and 12 years old respectively sons of O. O M. M Johnson a carpenter of West Vest Third South street The two boys were drowned in a pool near Tenth West and Fourth South streets at about 6 o 0 clock o'clock last evening Both bodies were taken from the water soon after the death struggles of the brothers had hind ceased but the efforts of i their young younA frie friends s who had come to the rescue could not rekindle the vital sp spa Douglas and Wallace left their home at about 5 0 o'clock clock telling their mother they were going out to play for a a s time They had often taken a swim in the slough with boy friends 1 and about six of them teni again started tor the swimming hole Douglas was the first to get into the water Though they had been in the pool many times th the boys did not know of a deep hole a fe feW feet from shore Douglas started walking and nod splashing his way into lUtO the pond when he sank suddenly He came to the surface once and yelled for help Wallace still on the shore and only ony half undressed answered the cry from his broth jumping into the pond as ash ashe h hc he was The Tho other lads lads' confused by bythe bythe bythe the tragedy scattered Two of them ran to the Jordan river where Will Richardson aged 14 and John John Jorn about the same a age 6 were swimming B Both th boys jumped from the tho water hastily donned a few clothes and then started in ii- iia a al run for the hole bole Richardson Richardson Rich Rich- fr ardson son was wils wis t arr v n om to to take oiL off the scant clothes which he be had put on plunged into the water Boys Boy's Foot Toot Caught He lie had not been down long long- when became he be came to the surface with the body of Wallace Johnson On Johnson's Johnsons s 's foot was found an 01 old 1 bed spring which had been imbedded in the bed of the pond And then the puzzle of the older boys boy's death was answered Meanwhile was diving for the body of Douglas Johnson which he finally found on the bottom of the pond in the dee deepest est part of the hole Neither jad ad was wasa a g good od swimmer in fact the younger bo boy could not swim at ail all al Wallace in his efforts to bring his brother from the water caught his foot in the o bed d spring spring- and could not ot release it It had held him hint there until young Richardson wire and a all from the pond One of the boys had run to the Johnson Johnson Johnson John John- son home and nd a burr hurry call was sent to police headquarters The patrol wagon was sent on a run to the scene but the tho fight was over before it arrived Under Under Un Un- der the guidance g of Richardson the boys worked over oyer the bodie bodies of the water choked lads for nearl nearly half an hour working tirelessly and doing everything possible to resuscitate the lads The patrol wagon carried the two boys to their home and medical aid was summoned at once Nothing could be bedone bedone bedone done however and the two cold bodies which had left their home scarcely an hour before happy haPlY and full fun of boyish enthusiasm were laid lovingly upon their bed while the distracted mother sobbed brokenly and wailed waird unthinkingly unthinking unthinking- ly of the cruel hand of fate |