Show TERRIBLE TRAGEDY MONDAY MONDA Y beaver canyon Is the scene 0 of one of the most 11 horror 0 il or inspiring accidents in the history of the state YOUNG BOY IS VICTIM A tragedy which is unparallel led in the history of 0 our city occurred last monday night in th the beaver canyon just above baker crossing rho victim was St stanley attley hodges tho fourteen year old son BOH oi of mr and mrs fred hoddee of tills this city mr air hodges and his boy were hauling hau lingi p poles 01 0 S and through some mishap were belated in coming down the canyon the night was stormy and unusually dark and the road under such vora conditions wis was at some rome points almost able J just U st above the 0 of baker cayou cannou part ot of the road line has been rebuilt and in in the darkness tile the tellin too took k the ol 01 old d road which runs along the river bank alq BD is badly washed out the bank is steep and nd high and the soft soil sofi gave gava way under the weight of the wagon without a seconds warning the load overturned and plunged into the ilia dark water beating with it both mr hodges and the boy hodges managed ta to ax e ltv m 1 but bat tho the boy was ti tightly atly p pinned inked under abo wagon and under the ilia water 11 11 Z working desperately in total darkness and with the rain pouring down in abri tort ip tents rents them the father almost insane with fear farhit tor for hia hit son fought as only a fattier father co could uld have fought for liis ilia boys life forever for Fo over rover two twi hours lie exerted every energy every muscle in ia a hopeless struggle to free the pr iSODer then nhen kind death came kind to the suffering lad ad but not to the tortured fattier father utterly exhausted after hwong hia frantic fruitless tight fight crazed with grief and the soul sickening terror of the ilia situation the father fater with difficulty difficulty holding ng his hie sons head above the raising water must watch tat that i c r sons life ebb away what mortal was ever before called upon to go through a a allore more ghast lymore tor montous ordeal and after the awful end alono in the darkness with hid bid son for whom he be had fought so bravely yet so po vainly dead imagine the father tearing himself away from the clasp of the dead boys arms leaving the bady pinioned under the wagon almost submerged in water to the mercy of the ilia night human endurance in time of lire dire noc necessity casity is ip a wonderful thing that father who un under d er ord ordinary ivary circumstances would have fainted from sheer fatigue ran five miles to town to summon help help that was after all so eo futile trials and heartaches are a part of abe th burden that every man is forced to be bear ar but seldom is n it that the almighty sees lit to put one of 0 his children through such nn an ordeal as this and it is impossible tor for ou oil or I 1 to conceive cont eive of tho the hot hor rr of our friends experience funeral services veto held field in the alie stake tabernacle yesterday afternoon and never was a sadder funeral witnessed in 0 o beaver it was one ol of the ilia largest gatherings ot of its i la kind and one of the most sympathetic ever had here in their sorrow let tho the parents and family of this poor boy take fake what coni com co n i fort they can from the fact abl that t the a whole community grieves with them and that ho H who has caused his children to mourn will also aleo heal beat their aching eirts and belle belthem them to bear their loste loss |