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Show UTAH BOY IS DROWNED Grant Shields of Tooele Thrown From a Barge on Bear Lake Could Not Swim and Sank Before Help Arrived Montpeller, Ida. April 29. Grant Shields 17-year-old 3on of Mr. and Mrs Robert Shields or Tooele. I'ta'j ! was drowned In Bear lake yesterday when he and four others were tbrowT rnto the water from a barge. Shields came to Pans Wednesday from Tooele to visit Friends Monda) be was employed by the I tab Power & Light company, and yesterdaj morning embarked with four other young men on a barge, which towed by a motorboat, Was to carry them to 'he company'p pi. mi Tl , moiurbo speeded up and pulled the nose of the barge on which were the young me under the water, throwing all Into the water Young Shields was the only one who could not swim The others held to the barge until help came. Youn Shields did not come to the surface His body was found at about 9 30 o'cloek. two hours after the drowning It will be sent to Tooele today, fn charge of W. R. Holmes and F. Bow-en. Bow-en. who Shields was visiting 1c Paris. The funeral will probably be held in Tooele Thursday Young Shields was born in Tooe'e and was one of the most popular boys in that town |