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Show A HEROIC -DEATH. u The Brave and Gallant Yonng Louis Allen. He Sacrifices His Own Life to Save a Brother and Sister From a Watery Crave. The village of Draper, eighteen miles south of Salt Lake, was the scene Sunday of a terrible struggle for life on the part of several young people, peo-ple, and of the heroic death of one of their number in his attempts to save his young brother and sister. There is a large pond in Draper, from twelve to fifteen feet deep, and on Sunday, while playing on its banks, a little boy and crirl. children of BishoD Allen, fell into the water, one first slipping in and the other jumping after it, or being be-ing pulled in in attempting to save it. The screams of the children drew their brother to the spot a boy of fourteen, named Louis Alltn who at once jumped into the pond to their rescue. He succeeded in getting the little boy to the short and returned to aid the girl, she, in her fright, clasped the brave fellow around the neck and both went down. In the meantime, however, her screams had attracted a young man who was passing bv, and jumped in, he was just in lima to save her; the boy Louis, however, had gone to the bottom, and though he was soon brought to the surface and every means possible taken to resuscitate resus-citate him, the vital spark had lied. The death of the brave boy has cast a gloom on the whole village, and his parents have the sympathy of the entire community in their bereavement. bereave-ment. Herald. |