Inter-Mountain Republican | 1906-03-25 | Page 17 | Utah State News

Mountain litter Inter I II Utah State News 1 Ice LOSES LIFE UFE IN RIVER Lt A Attempting to Cross 14 Stream in Wagon u I H Special Cedar City March Z 24 t.-r t. rank Frank Isam blom of Mountain l Dell was drowned d In iii the thc Virgin river liver near Toquerville tithe thin morning after aCler several ral H persons ha had risked their thell lives lI In attempts to save ta him Isom had been farming arming at Newton but aa na a result of continued 1 storms torms decided de de- ic- ic to return to his home this morning He lie endeavored to ford on the river from Crom rout Hurricane Bench Dench to la where the time stream Is narrow litH and amid swift The wa wagon on capsized and ina he in was a thrown out Robert Wilson taW saw horn driving into the river and saw the wa wagon on Healing ulI upside down don afew afew a n few moments later Wilson spread a an 8 mu 11 alarm 10 lm a and nd It a crowd crowl collected soon an followed the time bod body half a mile down dow tho the stream stream several eral men making desperate attempts to reach It U but I In vain I Isom om wa dead before hel hl help reached him Ills III h head ad was muc much bruised and anul It is believed tI he was wa caught under the wagon waJon anti and senseless en cless when the wagon overturned over overturned turned as ho he made no apparent effort to arnim to safety Isom was as a well known resident o pf of Mountain Dell Deli near Yh Virgin ln City 11 II was vaa about 45 46 years of age and leaves leave leavea a It wife and anti several Re children He lie losa lust lost losta a n grown glown son Ion under distressing tot clr dc- last New Years Year's day The young oun man had hal worked all nil da day am anul sprang out of be bed 1 during time the nl night nigh ht only to drop ilOf dead In a Il few ew seconds a as asa asa a result of oC heart failure