Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-05-12
A HoMEsPUN TRAGEDY.
And Very Well Spun, Too, in Not .
Great Number Of Words.

And Very Well spun, Too, in Not >
Great Number Of Words.
"You see that river ripplin along 50 smil-
In and pleasant" !" said Uncle Hiram, ian
you think a child needn't be afraid OF IL,
but put thirty feet Of water on top o.
what's there now and see how you'd like
to face il. Twice in my life have seen it
as pray the good Lord | may never see it
again, as no man may need ever want 10 see
it. The first time, long ago it was, Sam WAS
twenty then, an he'd be a middle aged
man now, taught me there want no conf
dence TO be put in that stream and pve
never trusted it sence.
zone June day Sam an me started out
] to shoot mess o. fish. / had the old gun,
cause was better shot n him, on he
toted the net. How do you shoot fish,
You climb tree or big rock that's close
! to tie water, an VIXEN you see fish you
want you just blaze away, that's all; but
you've got to know how mighty well, an
| somebody's got to be quick an scoop i'm
| with net before he sinks. Well, we
| didn't seem to have no kind O. luck, and
| before we knew it was two miles from
/ home. At last we struck place whore
| there seemed to be some fish, an got up
! into Zig pine that stood close to the wa
/ ter.
"Jest as had found comfortable roost
| l heard a sound that I've heard many a
time among these mountains-a roarin,
rushin noise as if every wind that ever
blew was tearin its way through the for
| est. Sometimes you can see, way off, the
trees bend before it, while everything near
| you is as purity as a baby's smile. Some
| times you can't see anything, only hear
| the awful blast that's ravin along some
where. Father says Sam, do you hear
that roarin" Yes says /. Jest then
sighted big perch jabbin his nose agin a
| rock an fired. | touched him, but didn't
kill him, an he made toward deep water,
Sam after him.
Every minute it seemed as if Sam had
that net under him, but he KEEP gittin
away till they was nigh half way cross,
the water not helm very deep there. All
that time the roarin had been goin on,
only we was too busy to take much notice,
but all at once it got louder and seemed tC
come from round the bend, which want
more'n a 100 yards above us. Hooked up
stream and saw something which made
me cold and sick all over. A white wall
| u NdlSI JSi lSGO hISh iuoulh Co"dlu uS
boilin and foamin, fllin the banks an
bearin right down on my boy. Sam saw
it as soon as | did an made for the shore
but just us he touched it the water caught
i'm an whirled i'm away as if he'd been d
bit O bark.
''He was good swimmer, but no mar
could live in that flood. | saw him beat
the water with his strong arms, / saw him
strugglin an maxim motions couldn't un
derstand. saw his white face for min
ute, an that was the last time l saw my
boy alive. Three days after they found
him at Point Marion; his boots was off ar
part of his clothes. Then knew what III
had tried to do. He knew he couldn't
swim in his clothes an tried to get then
off. City chaps that don't know nothir
about it come up here and laugh at us fol
bein afraid of that river. We've got 1
good right to be. "-New York World.