Show MARLOW BILLINGS billine IS 13 DROWNED IN GREEN gave his affe ufe to save a younger boy long search for body nonty six hours in water about 1130 30 saturday young bailow 15 years old aarik from sight in the of green river to become the latest victim of tue tae treacherous stream it appears tuat lie he gave ills hla life in an ail effort to save little reed snow 8 years old A crowd 0 of f lads ads nearly all about 15 years old had bad ben been over on the east side eido of the aler play placing ing ball and decided to have a dip in tte water waier ahey selected a point about a of it a mile above alio new bridge ahel tho the river runs in two channel ch annela divided by a sand bar the eabe channel is quite shallow the idus soon tired of tho the shallow water and decided to try the deeper one on the west side of tho the bar little reed snow enow was the first to get in and was seen at once to be drowning in the swift current billings Uil lings who was tha lai feest of the boys ran to the edge of the bar and while trying to reach out and catch hold of alo booy the bar caved off throwing him into the channel also where the water is fifteen feet deep not being ible to swim he sank it was as but a moment gatei that snow plunged in and saved As ls brother reed and william wall caught billings as he be came up filings much the heavier of tue tle two grabbed wall tight about the waist and both sank together As they came up wall cried out lot let me go im drowning and young millings filings releasing his hold sank some come of the boys say they saw him ince more a few yards further out the frantic cries of the boys bos aprea a general alarm and in a tew few moments men good swimmers SAlmi liers and divers were ere at the river unfortunately there was not a boat within a quarter of a mile so that some ome minutes elapsed before anyone aad reached mid midstream below t point where he fell in fishing I 1 and nd drags were rushed to the bolie b olie I 1 ut all efforts to locate the un fortunate ort lad were unavailing ly t e limo dankness dai kness knoss forced the searches to 10 abandon their posts mr air and mr rank krink l dillings billings ir jilts ants of the dead boy are almost pros rate with grief it was with gret gre t difficulty that the wore induced to abandon the search ov over r night I 1 daylight found the mother on te t e jank ank her straining eyes ees legging uie waters to div ghe e up the body of her son search with grappling hooks lines line continued on oil last page continued from page 1 MARLOW 13 BILLINGS ILLINGS IS 18 DROWN IN low GREEN drags drag beins powder and any device that might serve to locate the body was instituted sunday with out avail A net of woven wire fence was placed across the river six miles below so that in case the body should rise and float it would be caught close to a hundred volun went from vernal monday and others on tuesday about five in the afternoon the shout went vent up that his bis body was sighted floating near the bank just below the new bi bildne idge and the searchers rushed up as aa it was brought to land after being in the watt katr r ninety ninetysix six hours sen ices were held over the ahe remains wednesday at 1 under the direction of bishop archie B S it ft as one of the largest ever held in jensen on account of so many of the lo 10 local al choir members being relatives and close associates of the deceased david Alan manwaring waring and the naples i choir rendered the music the speakers were elders earnest eatn C alb wallace calder and albert goodrich |