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LITHE GIRL DROWNED logan aug 13 at the undertaking parlors tonight lies the lifeless body of little labon hansen 8 years old who was drowned about noon today by falling into the swift waters ot logan river near cards canyon where the family of J I 1 hansen was camping for an outing the mother of tho child eat two rods away watching her little girl play by the raier with a number of other children while the father was in the tent some distance from the scene where the accident happened no sooner was the alarm given than the father jumped into the waters that would almost carry a horse off its feet and went after the child the mother ran up aad down the stream in water to her waist trying to help several times mr haneen caught hold of the dress of the drowning girl as she was dashed over the rocks and through the waves down the stream for about a mile but owing to the swift current she was torn from alg grasp A number of times he was compelled to go to the bank on account of being taken with severe cramps finally the brother of the girl found hla bister caught on a bush about a nalle down the stream from where she fell in the father then carried her out being himself almost overcome with cramp and bruises he sustained in tho pursuit the parents received assistance from the marshall and barber families which were camped nearby in preparing the body to bring to town it was at this samo camping ground that on sunday solon barbers girl adeline came near losing her life by her dress catching alro and burning her severely she however Is some better |