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Show ENGINEER DROWNED IN IDAHO I DAM BUILDER I MEETS DEATH IN ACCIDENT ! Ralph E. Thompson Swept i to Watery Grave in Payette River SKIFF OVERTURNED jl E n g l n e er ' a Companion Saved Through Heroic Work of Workmen I BOISE, Idaho. 21. Ralph E. I Thompson engineer in charge of the construction of the Black canyon dam for the United S:.v s reclamation ser- H vice, was drowned in the l'ayetie ri -er Thursday afternoon about 2 o'clock. j when, with a workman, he attempted to cross the river in a skiff whl Il was overturned In an eddy of tho R AT TURNS OVER With the workman. Mr Thompson H had started across the river in thi H course of his dutlos on the work. Mid. H way a sudden rush of water caught t h boat and throw It against the outstand ing iron pipe casting of a test holt H hat h id or. ,. drilled to bedrock in the preliminary work. The boat was in H stantly .apsized and the two niCS thrown Into tho swift current. H nejuus xej t i t, Th" workman succeeded in catchinf the pipe and holding his head abovt water, while Mr. Thompson, a stronjf wlrnmer. struck out for the further shore A' i t ri i n 20 feet of safety, worn out by his exertions. Thompson was H caught by a sudden eddy and dragged under and was seen no more. FIN ALIA' RESCUED His companion clung to his precarious precar-ious hold until a fellow workman went along a cable strtehed high in th. r j above the place where he clung and dropped a rope to him by which he was drawn to the shore Up to a late hour Thursday night j tho body of Mr. Thompson had not been found. |