The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1879-07-29

Three Children Drowned IN Flat
Creek
Narrow Eacape Of . Man and
Woman.
The Bodies Recovered this Morn
ing.


Immediately followed by . rapid rise in the
creek in this vicinity. On such 0ccasioas
Flat Creek assumes the proInrtions II .
nav,gaLle river, making The work Of fording
an impn~ibiliiy ar rxcresl,dgly dangerous.
This morning word was brought To tie
city that three children were browns in
Flat Greek, At ford west of P.rhrrry'-,
and the following particulars are all Ihst
could he learned ny BAzOO reporter in
regard to the matter.
After the rain yesterday. . farmer Who
resides on Flat Greek, but whose name our
informant Wa unable 10 give. attempted to
lord the creek in . ivo-borse wagon, in
which were his wife aud three chiIdren-
the youngest being two Yeas Of age. aud
the oldest eight. The ford WAS only about
one hundred and Fifty yards from hi. houae,
and he vas perfectly familiar With it. A.
ter he had driven into the creek poriion
Of the harness became disarranged and his
team became unnanageabIe. The string
current swept ilsem down 10 a deep hole
where the entire family we,e thrown into
the water.
The vile and mother batilesl manfully
for her own and the lives pf her little ones.
She sank twice. but by cl.~ing her month
and holding her breath ANN came 10 the
surface. she NEARLY succr~d-d in saving
the life Of One Of her children, when turn
ing she saw her husband drwnine. She
the child. hui sIacessissi in saw
ing the life Of her husband. The children
were swept down 10y the curr~nt and
drowned. One "f the hors.r WAS alan
,irowDei.
Although y c;iict searci, " - made yes
ierday evening n",.e 81 tie is!.ss were re-
covered.
At n"on Z" day Eazo reporter snc-
sesl.d in obtaining the following full par.
Iicn!ars "f the ra;an,ity:
Henri, Stokes - iaIn,~r who re~ides In
lhe Keel settlement, near Thsici,~r's f..d.
Between thie- .ni l"rr o'cI,sk yesterday
he started wlth his family Gun.
sisiing ii his wife aud three children, io
visit Lis n,"lhrr in .aw, a widow Powell,
" ho lives one aud half miles south al
+ Lat creek, on the Clinton road.
Stokes attempted 10 cro~S Flat creek Al
Piper lord, slouI t~u aud . hall miles
above the wafer works. Alter he get int,
he current he found the w.ier deeper than
.e had anticipated. To add Io the danger,
Iie bride biz of one Of the lor-es broke
and h. w,s unable to gni.le his team.
Realizing his peril he look two 81 the chill
iren, 10y and girl, aged six and three
years. and sprans into the wafer. His vile
followed with an infant only two msntl,s
I'D. In their s,ruggIinss the chill
lren were torn from them by
he force If the current and swept beyond
heir reach, while the agOn,zed psrenir
we're carried toward bar where the water
was shallow. Jnsi before they reached il,
Mrs. Stokes oh erved her husband cou-
pleiely exhausted aud sinking She Caught
rim just in time and held HIM mp until
hey reached the bar. Their cries had al.
rnc,ed the attention If Neighbour living
,ear and they we're soon rescued.
Search was Immediately made for the
children, but they could not lie found.
This morning a large party assembled t.
earch for the bodies of the unfortunate
itile ones. The wafer had fallen during
be night, and the hHiy Of one w.s found e,..
angiesl in bush. The bodies of the other
40 Children we're found near hy in the
ri Of the stream covered with mud.
Mr.. Stokes was taken home sestersi.y
vening in q very exhaust. d and d-bili-
aied condition, but this morning was re.
'ories! hetier. |
The funeral ixkes place this sfiernaou ut |
church, on Spring Fork.
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