The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-26
FELL FROM V BRIDGE
FRANK sHULTZ. ELEVEN YEARS OLD,
LOSES ais LIFE.
with Two Companions He Was Cross
ing the B~ridgc-The Body
Not Recovered.

Frank Schultz. eleven years of age. a son
Of Maurice NJ. Schultz. was drowned yes
terday afternoon about 1 o'clock in White
river. near the Belt Railroad bridge. He
fell from the bridge, which he was crossing
in company with lgnatius Moore, nine
years old. of 1l44 Olive street, and Arthur
Hamill, aged twelve, of 17O5 Olive street.
Neither of the other boys saw him fall,
but young Hamill thought he fell between
the stringers. Moore thought he fell from
the side. saying that he was walking on
the girder. The cap worn by Schultz was
found on the rocks at the side of the bridge.
indicating that he had fallen over the side.
Arthur Hamill. upon hearing the Schultz
lad strike the water, looked down and saw
his playmate struggling in the river. he
then ran to the next pier and dropped off
the bridge TO the ground, about twelve feet
below. lie waded out into the water, try
ing to get TO Schultz. but was unable TO do
so. Schultz was then rolling over in the
water, now and then going beneath out of
sight and coming up again twenty or thir-
~ feet farther down stream. Hamill fol-
lowed him down the bank, trying several
times by wading out TO get near him, but
could not. The Moore boy had gone 10 the
home of Charles Mertz, a gardener near
by, and before he arrived with a long pole
both Hamill and Schultz had disappeared.
Young Moore hurried away, and neither he
nor Hamill could be found. Several boys
found Hamill's footprints along the bank
in the mud. and the TRAN was lost at a
point where he had gone into the water.
This gave rise to the rumor that he had
gone into the water to rescue his compan-
ion and had also been drowned.
Young Moore returned later to the river
bank, and in Ompany with a number OF
boys went down the river for about a mile.
Some of the boys returned, and claimed
TO have seen both bodies floating down
stream. When Moore returned he said he
had seen neither of the bodies after he left
TO call the gardener. Young Hamfn had
reported the disappearance of Schultz to
Henry Decker, living on Raymond street,
and then left, going home. He returned
later, when he told his story TO the father
OF the missing boy, who walked up and
down the levee trying To find some trace
or his son. There was great excitement
along the river bank, there being little
women. who lived i'm the vicinity, patrol
ling up and down the levee.
As soon as the stories of Moore and Ham
i'll had been told to Bicycle Policemen
STREET and LOsh, who had tried for two
hours 10 learn something of the matter,
arrangements were at once made To drag
the river. Undertaken Lauck was called,
and with his assistance the party dragged
the river below the bridge without result
at Il late hour. II was almost dark when
the story of Hamill and Moore was told,
and but little could be done then. The
current in the river is rather swift, and
there was thought 10 be little prospect of
hiding the body near the bridge.
The death by drowning there yesterday
was the tenth during the last four or i've
years, one or two of them, however, being
suicides.
The lads had been at the stockyards,
where il was said young Schultz wanted To
go to buy a goat.