The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-24
LITTLE CHILD
DIES IN A DITCH
TWo-year-oId Edith Morgan Is
Drowned.
FELL FROM MARROW BRIDGE
BODY FOUND FAR BELOW SCENE
OF ACCIDENT.

VII HILE attempting to cross a canal
w in Lake Breeze alone on a narrow
bridge, little 2-year-old Sarah
Edith Morgan, daughter of w.
c. Morgan, a horse dealer who
lives on Seventeenth West, near
Third South street, lost her bal
ance and was drowned in the rapid
water below. early yesterday morning.
Her body was found nearly a mile be-
low, at 2 in the afternoon, in a lucern
field, where it had been carried by the
stream and left, after the water had
receded from the irrigation ditch.
The child left her home shortly after
s yesterday morning, and played near
the house for a time. She was accus-
toned to playing in the neighborhood,
and no especial attention was paid to
her movements. At she was seen to
start in an easterly direction, with the
apparent intention of visiting the home
of friend across the canal. The canal
is just west of Seventeenth West street,
and is SPAWNED only by narrow beam
above the headgate. The banks are
narrow and the stream is swift, with
depth of about four feet. The child
had crossed the beam once before, but
had never been allowed to go near the
place alone.
Continuing her journey she reached
the canal, and at once climbed to the
beam and started across. The beam is
only about eight inches wide, but the
child went boldly towards the other
side. 1t is supposed that she
had nearly reached the center
when she looked down and grew
frightened. She lost her balance and
pitched down into the water. None
saw her fall. and it was two hours
before her absence was discovered.
Child's Body Is Found.
A search was at once begun, but no
trace of the missing child could be
found. Neighbors Joined in the search,
and every place where she was sup
posed to visit was searched. At last
party was-formed to drain the canal,
in the hope of finding the body in the
water. For 200 yards the canal was
searched by the party, but not a trace
of the missing child was discovered.
Excited men and women hurried along
the banks in both directions, but still
the lost girl was not found
Shortly after in the afternoon a
farmer by the name of ]. w. Romelle,
living three-quarters of a mile down
the stream, had finished irrigating his
lucern patch and turned the water out
lowed one of the bitches to the bank
of the canal, and was Mortified at find
ing the dead body of a little girl in
the ditch. twenty feet from the canal.
He raised the child in his arms and
started towards the city. He soon met
the searching party, and the body was
given to the c1ild's father.
The girl, after falling from the mar
row bridge, had been washed rapidly
down the stream and carried through
the siphon on the Saltair track The
searching party had dragged the
stream up to that point. but regarded
further search of the water as useless.
One of the bars in the siphon, however
had been loosened from its place, and
the body of the little girl had been
swept through by the swift current.
The remains We're brought to the
city and taken to the morgue of Joseph
William Taylor, where they We're pre-
pared for burial. Funeral services will
be held at Lake Breeze at 10 o'clock this
morning, and the interment will be held
in the city cemetery.