| Show A PATHETIC CASE OF DROWNING THE new york sun describes de a pathetic case of accidental drowning in that city which occurred a few days ago joseph hartl reported to the police late at night that hip hie three year old girl carrie was missing miming and he wished assistance to search for her A general alarm was sent bent out for the chil dand the distracted tether father searched everywhere that he be thought the child was likely to go but no trace of her was found until the following morning when the unfortunate little one was found drowned in a cask of water head downward in the cellar clasped tightly in her little arms was an old china doll which was little litte carries inseparable companion it is supposed that the child took her doll down into the cellar to wash it and in deanin leaning over the barrel lost her balance and f besu ei headforemost into the water it seems that there was a fire in harals place about two weeks previous to the accident and that carrie carries s toys were destroyed excepting this one doll which was all black and charred from the smoke the little girl spent most of her time since the unfortunate fire in endeavoring to wash ash and scour the doll dolls dollis Is awe so that it would be presentable sen table her father found her thus engaged on the afternoon of the day she he was missed at the water hydrant in the back yard and reproved her the little one then disappeared ap peard and it to is believed she went into the cellar where she would not be detected and continued the work of scrubbing up dolly by the side of the cask in which the body of the unfortunate child was found stood an old soap box the box had evidently been placed there by the child in order that 8 she he little in might I 1 bt K stand upon it even then the little one was not tall enough to reach over the top of the cask except by standing on her tip toes probably the doll slipped from her hands and in her eager desire to recover it she had leaned too far forward and thus met her dreadful fate |
