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Show QGOEN TRAGEDY RECALLED BY FIND Bones of Wan Found at Mill Remains of Dane Drowned Here in 1865 i t. r. Emmeu, 203 Twtny-seventh I street, today recalled an old Ogden j tragedy hi con.-.eotlon with the dis- . covery yesterday of Human bones at the site of th Globe mills on the. ridge west of I cden. Air Kmmett says the remains are 1 those of a native of Denmark, whose name ho has forgotten, but I ho was j drowned while crossing Weher river in March 1S65. "The Dene war- w orklhg tor Ralph; Poufilas." Mr. Kmniett said, "on the March day in question; Ralph Douglas Sr., Ralph Douglas, lr, 1M, th hired man were crossln the river at a point about 100 yards south of the present! Bamberger bridge They had four hones and a running gear "The stream was swollen and irou-j ble devel jpeil in midstream. Douglas' and his son escaped b lng drowned inroiign 1:0011 lonune uui me nireu main was swept away. 'ne of the horses perished, also. "At the time of the accident Warren War-ren J Child was running a ferry a ros the river about where the ! Twenty "fourth street bridge is now lo-icatcd. lo-icatcd. James Berry was working the , ferrv for Child and It was Ihls man ! Berry, who found the body of the: Dane about two months afir he was I drowned. I "The condition of the body was : Mi' ii that it was Immediately placed In, 'a box and taken to ihe top of tho 1 i'l ne neat where the mill Stands. I rherc the remains were hurled " I was talkiiiK to Ralph Douglas; 1 today about the cae. He remembers. 1 the accident which happened when ho! j was onl 12 years old. but he forget.i the name of the man who was ! 1 drowned. |