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Show TRYING TO LAND CARP COSTS BOY HIS LIFE Walter H. Thomas, Aged Four Years, Jerked Into Water and Drowned. Salt Lake, June 18. Trying to land a big carp cost the life of. Walter H. Thomas, 4 years old, son of John Thomas, Tho-mas, of Pleasant Green, on Wednes- f day. The boy was dragged i.oriily ! by the fish into an Irrigating ditch. swept through a lC-foot ffume aD I ' tossed out upon a field sixtv rods be- i low. " 1 The youngster, with his brother wa5 fishing in the ditch, which was i swollen by the melting snows, when ; a large carp was hooked In an at- 1 tempt to pull the fish out, the boy slipped Into the ditch. His brother i tried to seize a hand which tho in! ! raised above the water and nearly toppled in also. The bov was swept away before the other Thomas boy could raise the alarm. After being carried through the flume, the hoy's body was washed into a field which was ben; irrigated. |