Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-08-17 | Page 8 | Little Boy Drowns in City Reservoir

LITTLE BOY MIlS IN CITY RESERVOIR Salt Lake, Aug. 17. Edwin H. ;..-.l' 4 jcsrs of aa - son of Mr ;nnJ Mrs. William Glade, 327 C street, wt drowned yesterday aftt-nioon In the reservoir about five miles up City Creel: canyon. The body was recovered recov-ered at :45 o'clock yes-'erc'ay afternoon after-noon by the Salt Lake police and is at tho ch-ipel of S. "'jiyior & Co., undertakers, pending luneral arrangements. arrange-ments. Mr. Glade, who is a clerk in the jcrocer department or Z C. M. I., was w.i Ulng with his little son along the edge of the reserve ir -bjch is protected, according to the statements state-ments of the officers, by a railing that is less than two feet high. The child, Tvhlle near the lower end of the reservoir leaned over the railing and fell into the water at a point near the outlet, where the water was romething like twenty feet deep, aud the ouclion strong. Mr. Glade leaped in and dived several sev-eral times in a futile effort to rescue his son. He then notified the police department, being compelled to run to the city because ne could find no telephone in the vicinity. The police po-lice department received the call at 4:25 o'cioek yesterday afternoon. Officers Of-ficers Payne, Moore, Wire, St. John, Larson and Lange responded.