Show DELTA YOUTH MEETS TRAGIC DEATH county attorneys son drowns while swimming in canal bern IG 16 eon of county Ai attorney torney and mrs 0 A Ta met with a tragic death tuesday afternoon ter noon july lith while swimming in the delta canal with a number of 0 companions tile the youths were at the old mill abill dam a section ot of the canal some thirty feet in depth when it was proposed that they dive into tile the tunnel ot of the canal bern langron the first to attempt to go 90 in was drawn in by the suction ot of a pipe connected with the tunnel As he did not appear above the surface ot of the water tor for sometime his companions began diving into the water in search of him but he was already too tar far back in the pipe tor for them to reach one of 0 them stood at the entrance ot of the tunnel to catch the young man man as he came on through the pipe and the other boys boya drew back the head gates but the force ot of the water coming suddenly out ot of the pipe knocked the youth standing at the pipe a distance of 0 ten feet and the boys again bagain to dive in search ot of bern the body was soon recovered and brought to the surface and while a physician was summoned berns friends applied first aid dr wm win 11 wright dr J K E stains city marshall henry forrester and state patrolman elmer carling arrived in at the scene of the tragedy in answer to the summons they worked with the body tor for an hour before they became convinced that all efforts to revive the lif lifeless elesa body were futile As th Stung man dived into the ead must have struck the alde tor for it bore a deep gash which physicians declared undoubtedly caused instant death the death of this fine young ma man a was a shock to all the people of this county as his parents particularly attorney att orney is in every community hereabouts the sympathy of their hundreds of friends sow goes out to the grief stricken family bern leaves behind him he represented a splendid type of young manhood he was graduated as an honor student from the delta high school this ibis past spring and his parents had already made plans to send him to the this tall fall besides his parents he Is survived by a sister thais and a brother bryce both younger than he funeral services are being held in delta this morning at 1030 A great many people from fillmore left to attend the services |