| Show DROWNED JAMES jailes B D til IkI MCNEAL CNEAL LOST IN I 1 TIIE zile GILA RIVER the sad intelligence comes from arizona of the death by drowning ofa of a young oung man named james B mcneal the c fatal event took place on the dinst and is related to nave have occurred as follows brother mcneal in company with a man named bowman was going across the gila luver inver with a wagon at it a crossing some live miles above smithville and opposite the settlement to which place they were going for seed grain A brother named was ivas riding ahead of the team on horseback when they a approached pro ached the shore brother mcneal I 1 eal eai lad had fallen too low and horses horse sand and wagon had got inton into a deep hole the man A bowman lumped out above the wason and mcneal Ic neal xeal jumped out in front as as if to assist the horses bowman was washed under tinder the wacon and when he got out he found mcneal struggling with his face very bloody as though he had received some injury from the horses horsey lie ile sank lind mand disappeared bishop B shop 1 rogers and twenty or men were out hunting the body all next nest day besides many hunted the evening of the accident but had bad failed to nind find anything but the drowned mans hat the horses large fine nine animals were both drowned and ido igo lodged ed against rift wood brother mcneal war wai was from utah and it is said he has a brother in davis county in this territory we learn the above by letter from brother E W east |
