The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-05-07
LITTLE LOUISE HANCOCK, THE
DAUGHTER OF MIR. AND MRS.
LEWIS HANCOCK,
NET HER DEATH IN BARTON CREEK.
While Walking Along the Bank Her
Foot Slipped and She Was Precipi-
tated Into the Water, Where She
Met Her Death.
(FrOm Sundays Daily.)

All Austin was deeply shocked last af,
ternoon about O'Clock to hear of the
most deplorable accident by which little
Louise Hancock, the 13-year-old daugh-
ter of Mayor and Mrs. Lewis Hancock.
met her death at the Barton springs mill
few minutes before that hour Yester-
day morning Mrs. Hancock and her chill
dren and Mr.. and Mrs. Rector Thomson
and their children, and several other fami-
lies, including Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Bro
mond, repaired to Barton springs to en-
joy days outing in the woods for the lit
tie folks. The hours sped by all too rap
idly for the little ones, who were having
so much fun. The noon hour brought
dinner, after which some of the boys in
the crowd became engaged in a game of
ball, in which they were joined by Mr.
Thomson and Mr.. Bremond. 1t was
while this game was at its height that
the sad accident happened that this morn
ing sleeps one home in the deepest sorrow
and causes many mourning heart in the
homes of Austin. Louise, the 13-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Hancock, in
company with two of her girl friends, was
walking along the steep bank of the creek
below the old mill, talking and gathering
flowers, while they idled the moments
away in careless pleasure. Louise was
leading the way down the creek bank,
when all of sudden she slipped and fell
into the creek. Her little friends reached
out to assist her, when she told them
that she could get out all right, and not
10 worry. No sooner had she said this
than the current caught her in its cruel
grasp, and, sweeping her feet from under
her, she disappeared from sight. Instant
ly her two little friends ran back to the
picnic grounds, some 800 yards away,
for assistance. AT the first alarm, Mr..
Thomson and Mr.. Bremond, followed by
all the boys, dashed for the creek, and Mr..
Thomson plunged bodily into the. creek
in his vain endeavors to locate the body.
Not finding it, he searched carefully but
rapidly down the creek bank, staying in
the water all the time until the mouth of
the creek was reached. In the mean
time the boys were prosecuting the search
along the banks, while Mr.. Bremond was
busy trying to find the body where it had
fallen in. All was to no purpose, how
ever. Mr.. Thomson, on reaching the
mouth of the creek, turned, and coming
back, still remaining in the water, search
ed carefully every portion of the creek S
bottom. 1t was only when near the start
ing point that he finally found the body,
where it was quietly resting about lOO
yards below the old mill, in the water near
an old fence that projects into the creek;
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the BODY OF the chllu was renioteu ~ ' h
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brought INTO practice py loNins gi IT, h an
willing hands was useu 10 prlilG ille paEn
into the Imp nttle po9!: ~ Mes o;t,i faS
were at once uispatcn9o " 'ie ely ros
aid and to bring the sau news " fei"'''e'
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hand TO lena assissante u LnEse M ho, VIZ" the
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