Show the drowning case the provo american ot of june 7 gives the following additional particulars of the sad case of drowning which wu was mentioned in the afew a few days since as having bavine occurred in the jerasa Riv Biver erlat lat lehl lehi junction A sad accident resulting in the death of little johnie johnson ot of L lehl ehl occurred on saturday the b boy ay who was about ten years old an and d the only child of mrs johnson Job lowi ow w was out with some other boys bout about his age herding cows near the jordan river at t he point where the S L W B R E R crosses the river the boys boy all went under the bridge to fish johnnie johnson went out and was sitting OB an a piece of timber projecting above the water when he by some means lost chis balance and fell luta the river his friends tried to save him and one threw to him his fishing line which the drowning boy clutched but his bis struggles struggles jerked the rod out of R the hands 0 of the boy on shore all attempts to save him by such means as the little fellows could think of were unsuccessful and hurriedly gathering up their cows the boys went to town and told what had bad happened to their friend a party immediately started for the scene of the accident to do what they could to find the body on OB reaching the place they noticed the fishing rod that had been jerked from the hands of one of the joys boys floating in the water and securing it they found the poor little fellow who had bad sunk to the bottom of the stream still stil holding onto the line they succeeded in towing to wing the body to the shore but bu t life had bad long since gone out and a U attempts to resuscitate him proved fruitless the poor door mother is almost frenzied with grief over the fearful accident |