The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-08-05

JACOB BARUCH THE LITTLE VICTIM
Missed From the Water and Then
Found Dead.

ne 0rsl acClueul VI al sOTl tual
ever happened at the Waco Natata.
torio- Sanatorium occurred this
morning about lo;45, as near as
could be learned, when young Jake
Baruch, the l2.year old son of Mr..
and Mrs A. Baruch, of Tyler, was
drowned in the pool.
Young Baruch had not been in
good health for some time, and his
parents, thinking the hot baths
would do him good, concluded to
send him to Waco.
His mother, who is also an inva-
lid, accompanied him, and the two
have been in Waco several days,
deriving great benefit from the wa
tiers.
This morning between 8 and 10
o'clock Mrs. Baruch, her sister,
Mrs. Duff Domnau, j axe and several
ladies and girls went to the natato-
rum, all going into the pool except
Mrs. Buruch, who took Turkish
bath.
According to one story, Jake had
been amusing himself in various
ways in the water, pretending that
he was drowning, for instance, and
he seemed to be in splendid spirits.
About 1880 Mrs. Domnau looked
around the pool and missed Jake
from the merry party of bathers,
and, thinking that he had left the
water, she left the pool and made a
search for him through the build
ing. Not finding him she began to
feel uneasy and returned to the
pool. While walking on the edge
of the pool, looking into the water,
she suddenly saw the body of the
missing boy lying on the bottom,
near the right hand side of the
pool. Up to this time the bathers
were not aware that anything had
happened, but when the horror
stricken Mrs Domnau screamed,
the little party was thrown into
CONSERVATION, scream after scream
issuing from the pool room.
The unhappy mother of the un.
fortunate boy, who was taking a
Turkish bath, heard the screams,
and her agony was pitiful, accord
ing to her attendant. She cried:
"Ob, that's my SOM and broke
away from the arms of the servant,
running half-clad out of the bath.
room. She fled to the ladies' par.
lor, where she was entirely over
come by grief.
Meantime Mr.. Will Downs, the
Office man at the natatorium, ran to
the pool and plunged in, bringing
up the lifeless body of little Jake,
which was tenderly laid on the
flags near the pool, while the fright
ened bathers stood about, almost
paralyzed a. the sudden tragedy.
Physicians were summond
and in a few minutes
Drs. Brown, Young, Black,
Parks, Graves, Howard and Olive
were at the pool.side. But nothing
could be done; life was extinct, for
the body had lain too long in the
water before assistance arrived.
The friends of Mrs. Baruch
tiocked to her assistance in the
ladies' parlor and most pitiful cries
issued from the poor mother, which
could be heard a good distance in
the neighborhood.
Nobody, except relatives and
friends, was allowed in the parlor
or in the pool room, after the acct
dent, and the attendants acted with
discretion and good taste in hand.
ling the crowds which hocked
around the building.
Justice Gallagher held an inform
al inquest into the facts of the &C.
cident.
The Baruch people have been the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. JEFF Dom
nau, Mr.. Baruch, who is mer-
chant at Tyler, having been advised
by rail of the sad occurrence.
This is not the first accident in
the Baruch family. Joe, the eldest
son, was killed on a Cotton Belt
train, going out of Waco, and
Mouo tho socOp1 son uor rovorolv