The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-12-09
IN SHALLOW WATER.
Strange Drowning Of a Scandi-
navian Yesterday.
he TRIED TO SAVE HIMSELF.
gueeor Comes Toe Lase. ard He Died
shortly After Being Pulled Ashsrs
Who He ws&

Aboag lis o'eFoek YESTERDAY Hogngnx fnsn.
wsa0ss nazae wzs kffefwsFa ieagred % be Hsr-
zaa A. Hsasen sss seen EfKpzxsi eg - tue sha--
Iow s3fer o. tic z4ss north u TIE seattle Trans
fer coszp aay-s a. 90 by VI. r. HARDING, pro
rFtetaF 81 restaurant on 6rAnt-stseeE nrf1ge-
HarGF7g was waking siang Tire CeiHnola 8
Fzgst H1nud Store tracks a. Ehst nEaes ena
when he cav tie erowntng E1n life vas neAfig
exraes.
TINS m4n bad spparentty beea In the water
Only few ninHtss As sooa - be ssw BIN
HAr1tnT shoufe6 50 an erayseye ~ the trAnss r
stables. waso was NOT far away, and whe weas -
the dY0wlng mAa's assistance At ones. A rope
Vas proeslred. and AfseT considerable di0ienisy
the mka was hauled Out o. the water
lie skill showed AsTne signs ef Afe,
and stTsrEs Nere teen male 70 resascsis htn,
hus & vas dssused test % get him 70 plsee
whkse he eauit receive rsedicsl az ndNs~e- de
waH piaesd - = bakg &c wagon and t&kea %
police heAsQussters hy Deputy sserls Wooiery.
who happened al0ug es the tisae. arriving there
within nirsen minutes after belag taken from
the waser
DR.. Albia was summoned. and With the assist
snee OF ewo Of the officers, worked spoa tbs
maa for oFeE on hour. bal their efforts were use
less, a. life was already extinct whFn the bodY
was taaen ingo the stations.
PApers faaud upen the dead man proved bin
ennelasYsiF % BE- HsrEnAa 4. Hansen, bus his
sdaress eaula rot be lear 4ed. No one seemed 20
know who he vas or where he lived II was
sad. t0@uko. inst he was . blacks smith. Ia the
empsoy q 5 nan namsd Baehanss. wbs runs a
shop near The transfer eemp9uys stable This
could aot Be xersaed last nlght.
Hansen wa mar about ave feet nine inches
ga height. and ss12hsd about As pounds. he
bad dark halr aud 3 reddish HlGstsehe. Ills
ciofhss wera somewhat w0zu. AMI betrayed the
workingmsn
Coroner smart examined Hxnsen's body but
could aaa 10 MARKS Of violence. He il OF The
opinion "a Il the mAn, while waking along the
track fell into an ep ieptic OF nnd relied iat0
TIE va or. as ne had fsosaed AZ the mouth aud
bis face was ne4rly purple when he was taken
OUT
sevsral al the letters and papers which led 70
his Identification were written In the Saandi-
nAYlan lzngnage. but there we're two receipts
and c&nessei mortgage deea ia Engii- h. Oae
receipt was dated AZ seattle. February =. 1883.
and gave evidences hat Hansen had paid G. 81.
Myers. o 80 Pacific avenue, Tacoma, so for
showing nlFn soyae land. Tho mortgage deed
waz made January L. tss9. in favor of X q.
FEegFe. On fIfts acres Of ls8d in King county.
and was eeBeeletl 90 March l. u vss signei
ny Hansen ard witaessed ~ Commissioners C. d.
Em ~ sas ere Cherles Hansen. There were
several osheF papers also, one Of which was s
polltax receipt shuglnz that be bad lived 1T
Port Ludi0w. Nothing of va ne was taken from
bis pockets. no money at al being found upon
him.
The body. which was taken from headquarters
aboas o'elvek, now lies al Bonney & stewsrf's
undertaking. estabsisAne nt awaiting she srrty al
OF acme fF.esd or relative. No inquest viii be
he'd