The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-04-27
FRIDAY April Of 1885
SHOCKING CASUALTY.
A Young Man and Two Chill
dren Drowned.
THE BODIES NOT RECOVERED.
The Chiidren'E Mother a witness to
the Sad FntalitV-Finding OF
Dead Mans Body

Special to The HERALD.
OGDEN, April 26- Especial to The
HERALD One Of the saddest events
which it has ever be our duty
to chronicle took place to-day. The
wife of William Wilson, the sawyer, in
Ogden Canyon, with their two little
girls. aged respectively about and Z
years. went on the river in boat for a
little recreation. Presently, Mrs. Will
son returned, and young man from
North Ogden, whose name we could not
learn up to the time of legraphing, II
O'Clock tonight, took her place on the
boat. the two children remaining at the
time. Mr.. Wilson himself, it is said, was
up town. The young man in question, it
appears, pushed out on the river with
his two little feminine charges, and all
| went we'll until they reach d the vicin-
ity of the dam near the rapids,
when the roaring currents, it is sur
missed, erwhelmed him, and becom-
| ing excited, he lost control OF his boat,
resulting in the craft, with its precious
|
the surging water below, and OF not
known where. As soon as the :. q full
affair became known at the saw ill,
Mr.. Wilson's brother. who is engaged
by the Central Pacific at the depot,
was telephoned to, and assistance
called for from the city officials. A
posse of brave and large-hearted men
were Immediately dispatched, with
Councillor Joseph Clark st their head,
to erect wires across the river at q
certain point where the wafer is turned
| into the creek which provides the motive
power for the machinery at Clark 4
Eccles' grist mill, in the hope of pre-
venting the waters from carrying the
bodies any farther along their course.
What they have been able to accomplish
we cannot state, as, up to late hour,
they had not returned. 1t is dreadful
! blow to both the father and mother,
and espe ciaIly so to the latter, who, it is
said, suffered what must have been in
| describable agony in seeing her darling
children swept over the dam into the
rapids below. The father, on hearing
the news, was overcome, and at last &C
counts, strong and manly though he is,
he was said to be broken hearted.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson are highly re-
spected by the whole community,
whose sympathy they have in their
! sudden and, 20 human sense, cruel loss.
DEAD BODY FOUND.
OGDEN, April 26, midnight.-[opecial
to THE HERALD The men sent
10 search the river for the young man
and the two little children, came
across the dead body of man.
The marshal, with Police Officer
James Brown and others, brought the
body to town tonight, about 10 o'clock,
and gave it in charge of the city sexton
Your correspondent was on the scene
| and would Judge the man to be about
| 40 years of age, apparently respect
able workingman. His appearance
would indicate that life must have been
extinct several weeks as his hands aud
ears are in an advanced state of de-
composition. He seems to have bee
about five feet ten inches or six feet tall
and to all appearances in robust health.
He is of dark complexion, heavy,
black moustache and black hair, and
his outward clothing is composed of
is apparently stranger in the town,
DC lO OAC cCOAAo W AhNO oAJ
as to who he is.
Various guesses were INDUCED in by
the officers and others present, as to
how he came by his death, some think
ing suicide, some murder, and others
attributing it to accident. 1t would
be premature to venture an opin-
ion at this juncture. without further
particulars, but his appearance has in
dications OF violence, which might have
been sustained by accident or by
another, or by himself. His forehead
has quite large indentation in the
front, and his right temple and cheek
have considerable embrosures.
An inquest will be held over the dead
body by Justice Dee to morrow. The
SUM Of 1925 was found IN purse in
his pocket.