Show A VIOLENT DEAT U tho the entire city was startled and pained thursday morning when it became known that mrs annie oconnor a bride of five weeks had fallen into a well and drowned and that her body had remained in the well from some time wednesday forenoon foie noon until an early hour thursday morning the particulars of the sad had alfa affair ir as far as circumstantial evidence can make them known are as follows charles oconnor husband of the deceased was up all 11 day tuesday and worked tuesday night and before going to bed asked liis his wife to call him in time to attend the funeral of ed hurd who was killed at the daly mine sunday morning just before going to sloop sleep he saw his wife alivo alive for the last time for when he awoke at about in the afternoon his wife was gone mr oconnor when ho he saw it was after 3 supposed his wife had gone to the funeral and left lot him sleep he felt no uneasiness and being a heavy sleeper soon dropped into a n sound bound slumber which lasted until 2 thursday morning when he be again woke finding his wife still absent he became alarmed got up dressed himself and began a systematic search of the neighborhood in hopes that his wife had been called to attend some sick friend he failed to find her or any trace of her no one having seen her since wednesday morning early the neighborhood was soon aroused and an active search began for the missing woman A young son of jossph perry appeared on the scone scene and said that he had found mrs ocon n aers eras water bucket standing at the well in mr hunts yard from which several families in the vicinity draw water nater ho he supposed she had bad left it tharo for some one to fill so he drew a bucket of water carried it over to the house and placed it near the back door bothon he then suggested 0 that the lady had fallen in the well mr perry at once procured a pair of grappling hooks books and soon satisfied himself that it was only too true T he well is about forty feet deep ha i all of ten feet 0 of water in it and is curbed abod from top to bottom with ro roc i mr air perry descended into the wo we I 1 and raised the body to tho the of the water made it fast to tho the ro roi a 3 and in the presence of tho the hus bai d dand and a largo number of neighbors an friends wore raised to tho the surface an carried to tho the desolate homo home of the th hns husband band whose grief at tho the vio ont ent death of his y young oung wife was dis to behold to asaho in 11 tho caily morning hours as ag lie ho did the foi in I 1 roin his side and then flud find that while lie ho slept the cruel liand hand of death had claimed churned hor her in a sudden and adf awful ul ni manner auner haq v as almost enough to turn tho the young mans brain the case was one that utterly sealed tho the lips lip 3 of behold eib vis for thoy they felt tbt words of sympathy wore were entirely out of place asta as a moans of quieting sueh such strong emotion and ono one and all hold aloof in speech and tried by acts of kindness to show liow how was their sympathy for him in his great affliction never in the history of tho the camp has there boon been a para loll to the present case and it calls for universal and sincere si neero sympathy bereaved young hus band and aged the latter residing at heber just how boxy the accident occurred will never bo be known as it was unseen by any ono one two theories are advanced as a solution of the problem and they are first owning to an attack of heart failure a desesso with which tho the lady was troubled at times it is supposed that while engaged in drawing a pail of water and while in the acton act of reaching tho the well bucket sho was stricken down and fell into the well the second theory is constructed on the fact that the curbing to tho the w well ell on the iho sido side from which mrs 0 connor usually drew water was quite low while the bucket could not be drawn to a level with tho the curbing and necessitated a persons person reaching over a and nd lif lifting tin g it out this is a dangerous proceeding when there is ice on the ground and the attentions 0 of f parties usain g the well has been called to it by mr hunt several times it is thought that the ground being frosty wednesday morning she may have lost her footing as above stated and fallen into the well however the first theory is the one given credence as the most reasonable the deceased received a very ugly scalp wound across the top of her head and according to dr wilson was unconscious before she reached the water and that she drowned while in that c condition ion she undoubtedly met her death shortly after her husband retired to bod bed the funeral oc occurred currad yesterday afternoon from the catholic church tho rev father galligan officiating tho the remains wore were followed to their last resting place by a largo large number of sympathizing friends park record |