The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-07-29

lace, saying that nothing could be
learned, and that he WAS on his way
home. He was telegraphcd to JOIN his
brother at Buruet aud assist IN the mel
ancholy search Tor the remains Late
last evening a telegram was received
from Burnett from Clarence Wa lacc,
who had gone there from this city the
day before, rs follows:
BuRNRT, July Is, lSS2-4s1b y. NJ
To !. ID. Wallace: From all can learn
Cliff IA drowned. Will leave in few
minutes to search for him.
G. T. WALLACE.
This was all the information received
until Mr. Willie Willis reached the city
from Lampasas, and from him We learn
the almost certain fate Of poor Clin and
the particulars OF his death.
The party oi young men had gone
from Lampgsas across the Colo ado To-
visit the celebrated cave on the edge Of
San Saba aud Burnet counties on We'd
neaday Of last week intending TO r turn
on Saturday. On Friday night heavy
rains came no and food wept down
the river There WAS no means OF cross
ing the river, and they stayed there two
days, and then started down the river to
| find crossing. They reached Button
| ferry, thirty miles below the cave, and
camped there until tn sday morning.
| On Tuesday morning. before
| the ferryman had come down,
| Wallace and Dick Downs went
III swimming III sort ut bayou or
smooth portion Of the river. After
swimming FOR while the two started to
swim across the river S. ich was ilou led
aud the current running with terrlhc
rapidity, perhaps ten or twelve miles M
hour. The swimmers had got into the
current about half WY across, when
they were swept down III "a way To- show
them to be in danger,and their comrades
called to them to come back and catch
ON to the drift wood They started back
and Downs caught n largo log with the
asgitnuce Of which he struck for the
othor shore aud succeeded III reaching 1t.
Wallace cuuKht at II piece OF DRIFT, bnt
1t sank and he went under lie came
up straugluR and excited ami SUI
clluging to the frail support, he drlftod
below the ferry, hundred yards down
: the river. Here lac began to cry Tor
helm IN heurtrunding tones. His com
rades followed the banks, but the
current WIS ~ swift and the
way 20 impedrd with ruvines till"d with
winter that their progress WAS slow and
the struggling boy was swept ont oi
sight He wns last seen 10y Mrs Beer
who, with her husband was camped
s some distance below. y horse was pro
70 en-, ed aud rider sent to "a bend slN
l miles below, but the drowning boy was
, II. seen to pass Downs had succeeded
g IN reaching the o'hcr shore hut III al
: exhausted condition, where he ~hs
j., Obliged to remain until the ferrymar
Il came down und gave him some cloth
'' nR. The banks were seHrclrd gu boil
= sides for several miles during the da!
: without avail 1t l. probable thu
Wallace was drowned before he reach''
the bend to which the hOrseman VA sent
4 On Wednesday the young men set ont 10
. Burnct ard lampasas. rcaching the llitri
., place late Thursday night In mi'crtDl
plight and horror stricken over the iatc q
their drowned cunrtdr There is III tiu
Il fninicst shadow OF hope that Nallnc
D, may have escaped, but Is only shadow
u tor il he had passed tho bend OF the rive
.iX miles below. u few miles further dow
Ie he would have encountered the Mmbl
n- falls OF the river which no one could e'
N cape alive. 1t is with melancholy hcm
r. we write this account of "a young ma
j. universally esteemed and thus cut on i
ID the prime OF lie.