Show TWO BROTHERS DROWNED I IN JORDAN SLOUGH Wallace Johnson Lose Loe Life in Futile Attempt to Save HIs Brother Salt Lake Jill July as If In ina a trap a boy was miserably drowned I I Thursday in a vain effort to save vo his brother from a similar fate His foot I clinched In a bedspring which hall hail been thrown Into the bottom of a L slough the bo boy struggled till he could I struggle no more Wallace Vallace Johnson 10 years ears old son of 0 I 7 Johnson a carpenter living JIving at S est Third South was the hero who gave up his life for his I Douglas Johnson Johnon S 8 years old was the brother But Dut Wallace Johnson was not the only hero or of the fearful tragedy Will Richardson ii 11 years cars old into the dark waters of the tho pond Ilond and at I the risk of his life Wallace loose from the hue bedspring In the hope that thal the boy might be Then with tho wisdom ot of twice his years oar young oung Richardson set about the futile work of oC trying to bring the boy tr to John boy of South Ninth West street was another hero of the day a lie He lived dived repeatedly for the of the younger oun lr Johnson bo boy but his ere In van vain The Thc I body was recovered by br Oliver John I I son an older oler brother of the tho two drowned boys boB 1 The rhe drowning was ono one or of the moves on the checker checkerboard board of oC fate Doth Both boys had been In tho thio habIt of bathing in the tho slough which Is near Fourth South street be between tween West and Tenth West streets When the lads went about G 6 in n th the to lo take their swim the younger lad stepped first Into Unaware or of a lie he wailed waded out for a few feet reet and then sank Irom sight hits His brother aware that Douglas Doulas was wa unable to swim tore Lore his cloth clotheS os from him nail leaped to the rescue It was as a deadly attempt PlungIng head first into the tho water he groped for a moni nt along the tho bottom hollom trying I to find his brother his foot be became became came entangled In n a bedspring which some seine household or had thrown there thero to tobe tobe be rid ot or The Thc Johnson boys were bathing with a of oC their playmates who rushed In ever every without trying to give aid nid to their companions One ran mn to the Jordan river where the RIchardson and anul bO boys were bathing An Another Another other to 10 his mother third carried thu nW to the Johnson Johns ui home Heroism Dl Displayed played The RIchardson and the and the boys sot Hot out about til same fame tIme lime on II a nun nm for the slough The seJI ho as the first to arrive arrhe Youngsters who hind had soon seen the boys boy pointed out the tho silo Without pulling off orr his clothes clothie which ho he haul donned when whon he was waa wasI I called from tue tho Jordan young Richard Richardson son leaped Into the Shortly ho I reappeared hI bringing up the elder of tho Johnson boys Then the brother of the two boys ap appeared appeared I lie Ho went down after the th thor or er brother Shortly lie he brought him too to the surface young Po cock was floundering around on the bottom bollom trying to fin find the body hodr As soon snout as lS the iho unconscious lads were the banks of the slough I young oun Richardson sot about m and showing his mates bow to restore consciousness But Dut their of f forts were iii 11 vaIn aln DeLhi Both of the boys died shortly before the police pollee patrol wason which was scat out on a gal bal gallop lop Jop arrived I |