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Show DROWSED IH OGDEN RIVER. ! Willie Parry Goes Through the Ice to His Death. Ogden, Feb. 27. About noon today Willie Parry, a 13 year old boy, went up to ! Jones' ice Pond on the Sden river, with another youngster, and began be-gan playing on the ice. He had not been there more than a few minutes when the ice began to break, and hiB little brother called out to him to come to the bank. Bofore he could make an effort to return the rotten ice broke beneath him and he was smuggling in the chilly water. A Mr. liowen, who was on the opposite bank, saw the boy go through, and started to hiB rescue, but flnaine the ice would not support his weight, reached out a willow branch to him, but the little fellow either did not see it or could not graBp it, and sank to the bottom, in about eight feet of water. The alarm was given, and the body recovered in about twenty minutes and removed to the house of William Baird, where every means of resuscitation was resorted to in vain. , The boy is a son of Joseph Parry, who resides at 310 Eighteenth street. Ills mother's grief, when she was informed in-formed of the accident, was hartrend ing. The parents have the sympathy of a host offriend3in their bereavement. bereave-ment. There will probably be bd inquest. The funeral will take place from the residence next Thursday. |