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Show Was Riding Hcrse .... Five Year Old Boy Drowns In Lake Fork River Near Arcadia Richard Fouse Jessee, 5-year-- old son and only chiia of Major and Mrs. Howard W (Bath if'ouse) Jessee, drowned near his giandparents' ranch home in the vicinity of Arcadia at about 2 p. m., Monday, June 2, when he fell from a horse he and a neighoor playmate, age 6, were riding. Apparently the little fellows attempted to cross the swift and swollen current and had started the horse into the water, when the animal, sensing it's deptn and swiftness, turned sharply and made a lunge for bank, and in so doing, jerked the little Jessee boy from its back and he fell into the stream. He was riding rid-ing benind the saddle. The older boy rode to the house and reported that the other had fallen into the water. A call for help went out and in a short time a crew was searching search-ing frantically for the boy. The search continued through the afternoon and late into the evening. eve-ning. While the search progressed pro-gressed unsuccesfully. the water in the Lake Fork was cut off at its head at the Moon ' Lake reservoir and all possible water in the Yellow Stone river, a-tributory, a-tributory, was diverted into canals ca-nals in an effort to lower the water flow. According to Sheriff Any Mitchell, a good group responded respond-ed to the call on Monday and again at 5 a. m. Tuesday, when the search was resumed by men on horses and afoot, organized and directed by Sheriff Mitchell. Mit-chell. The body was found at 9:30 a. m. Tuesday by A. Hale Hol-gate Hol-gate about a mile from where the boy fell into the stream. He lay with his back curved around a fall tree protruding above the surface of the watervbut still in -the main -current, which had been lowered considerably by the diversion of water. . The body was taken to the Olpin Mortuary in Roosevelt, then transferred to the Larkin Mortuary in Salt Lake City, where services were conducted at 2 p. m. today (Thursday). Major and Mrs. Jessee and little Richard had arrived only Sunday to visit with Mrs. Jes-see's Jes-see's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Er-nest Fouse. while Major Jessee was on leave from his headquarters head-quarters at Mitchell Field, New York. He was granted a ten-day extension of time following the tragedy. |