| Show A sad occurrence on wednesday last as william haight a 4 young man seventeen or eighteen years 0 of I 1 age son of mr nir 11 C haight of farmington has vas was crossing the weber at the ford near slaterville Slat erville below ogden city with a span of horses and wagon his horses balked the wagon was upset and miss eugenia a dorleski northrop about fifteen years old who was in 1 the wagon with him was drowned the cir clr cirl l I 1 cum stances as reported were as follows I 1 the river tho thol fordable at that point was i high and like all mountain streams very rapid I 1 I 1 after passing the deepest part of the channel safely the he t horses stopped sto p ped and on being urged to go ahead they went backwards and run the J t wagon into deep water where by the cramping in of the wheels and the force of the current it was turned over and went downstream down stream with the horses both of which were drowned william carbine the girls uncle was cr crossing sin bin the river on horseback at the same time and was a little ahead of hai hal Haig halg hta team when I 1 it stopped seeing the difficult difficulty y the young 0 man was in he dewent went back to assist him and 1 dismounting tried to keep the wagon from upsetting but to no purpose j As it went over young haight a seized the girl who was his cousin and jumped into the river on the upper side and then by the as j si stance of carbine swam with her for the north shore but the current was so strong that they could not make iland they turned and swam across to the south side when near the bank they fell into a whirlpool or eddy being 0 chilled by the coldness of the water and nearly exhausted they all came very tery near going in t under together 17 haight seizing a willow with one hand band tried to pull to sho rebut could not hold to it firmly enough and thinking the girl had a afasa fast hold of him he let go of of her and took hold hoid of the willow with both hands bands to save himself and the other two persons I 1 As soon as haight let go the girl with her heri herf ti uncle cle cie who was an on the other side of ifer lyer iier her went down ank and and w wilen 6 carbee c came aee dihe up P he hadtke had hal the young spun k wo womans comans malts maxis shawl in one fiands hand but ut she was not seen torise again her body was found the same day about hait half a mile below where she bhe was drowned Y lodged on some brush wood I 1 i 1 mr nir W IV taylor was standing on the north bank of the river at the time of the I 1 I 1 occurrence and as soon as the wagon don gon upset he plunged into the stream coald to aid ald io in the rescue but bat being immediately seized with cramping could not render any assistance alid and came near j being drowned himself before he got back to shore haight and carbine had on heavy lothes clothes c and boots om ane or both of them an overcoat I 1 I 1 and each had a revolver girded to their body lunder j under such circumstances considering e the coldness of the water and the rapidity of the current it was fortunate indeed that the en tire party did not find a watery grave |
