The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-30
DROWNED IN A HORSE-TROUGH.

ihe Singular Manner in Which Little
Josie SchoelIer Came to His Death.
Drowning accidents in the river, the bay,
the ocean and the surf have been recorded
frequently OF late that it seemed as If every
variety of death by drowning had been fully
described. However, child was drowned
In shallow horse-trough on one of Brook
lyn's main thoroughfares within full sight
and easy reaching distance of score or
more of passers-by. The child's sister was
at play near by and his father sat reading n
paper within twenty feet of the scene.
Joseph Schoeller was the name of the lit
tie victim. He was years and months
old. Josie, as the child was called, was an
attractive, playful little fellow, full of ami
nation and little difficult to watch be-
cause of his habit of wandering to forbid
den places. He was The pet Of the entire
nelghborhOod. Every fine afternoon he
went out for walk on the block in the
care of his sister Annie, who IS years old
Annie had often been warned to hold fast
to her little brothers hand and not to take
him far from the house She was a careful,
obedisnt child, in whom her parents placed
| the fullest confidence.
Yesterday afternoon Annie and her little
| brother Josie stood hand in hand in front of
| their fathers saloon. On the curbstcne op-
| posite there is a low, old-fashioned wooden
hOrse-trough, which is kept filed nearly to
| the brim with water. Some neighbors' chill
| dren we're playing on the sidewalk close by,
and they appealed to Annie 10 join them.
She was not at first to be tempted.
| but the merriment of the other chill
| dren was something difficult to resist.
| and then, too, she WAS right at her own
doorstep and her father sat just inside
the open doors OF the saloon reading news
| paper. Surely nothing could happen to lit
tie Josie there, especially if she kept close
| watch on him. She let 60 of the baby's
hand and joined in the game. Each time
that she looked at her little brother
sue saw MN standing contented and smiling
cupied all the girls thoughts and she forgot
| for the time to look out for her brother.
Josie. left to himself, todded over to the
horse-trough. He had always been fond of
splashing In water, and neighbors who
noticed him for the moment saw him laugh
as ne gleefully reached over the side of the
trough and spattered the water. No one
dreamed OF danger there. and the little
fellow, still let to himself, put his head over
the side of the trough and bent down as
| though to watch the water more closely.
| Pretty soon he leaned well over, and no one
| even then realized his peril. Sister Ann
was fro'icking with her playmates and the
| father sat reading the paper.
A few minutes later 10-year-old how
| dashed into the saloon. "0h. Mr.. Schoeller."
| he exclaimed, come out and get Josie. His
heads In the trough, and think there's
| something the matter with him."
Inc iatner ran out 10 the Sidewalk and
| saw the little fellow with his feet head down
| in the trough, apparently bending over 10
| see the water. Another glance showed that
| part OF the chld's face, including the mouth
| and nostrilS. was In the water, and that fine
| little hands had lost their grasp on the edge
| OF the trough and were also in the water
| In an instant the father had the child raised
| In his arms. There was nothing even then
| to show that anything more serions than Ia
| slight duckiug had occurred
| But the little fellow Observation-Disclosures
| and the father in alarm dispatched n mas,
| senger to ST. GATHERINGS Hospital. two
| blocks away. An ambulance si,rgeon
| promptly answered the summons. He fonnd
the child unconscious, but apparently still
| alive, for the flesh was warm and the face
had not lost its color. Immediately resnscie
Eating methods were adopted. For full
hour the ambulance surgeon worked nm
availngly to bring his little patient back to
consciousness Finally he paused. looked
| up at the anxious parents and said:
ut is useless. Nothing more can be dons
| Your child is dead"
Neither father nor mother would accant
the statement and frantically demanded
that some other measures be taken to restore
their child to them, but the ambulance snr.
| geon had spoken only the truth. He had
indeed, feared it long before giving ex,
preston to it.-Brooklyn Eagle.