Show REPORT PORT MAN LOST LIFE IN HILL CREEK sheriff richard pope received a telephone gewo from Matti blatti Curry at ouray that japh va van waggoner WM was drowned in wll creek some bome time during abe i morning at last accounts noco unto the body had not been recovered covered rii 0 it seems that van Wag waggoner gonor went dom doun n to the e reek crook with two buck etis to ket get water and that while la in UM too convulsions of an tit fit ho b tell ell into the creek and carried dwa onn Ono bocket waa found on the bank and his hat woo was dl coverd some bome distance dl tanco down stream van waggoner Wac goner was waa a law of james jamea hamilton and sell noil hanks of the tb reserva reservation Uon MOHAWK were sent to them wednesday of the abo trag tragedy edy another report to reach vernal woe was to the effect tho it may oe be possible the men man was waa not drowned but that while he be was at the creek for water he die might havo have gono gone insane and wandered away the idea however that ho he fell lato into the creek whilo walto inba in a fit seems more likely ile he has been subject to these fits fite for a 0 number of ym yem and grow grew gradually worse A A you ox ot so ago while at his homestead in the lake fork country he fell in to the tire fire and was so w horribly burned that for awhile it if was feared he would not recover hill creek is ia about sixty milea south of vernal and empties into willow creek it Is id an ugly ou when high and Is considered conal dorod very tory dangerous dan gerou |