The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-05-06
A SAD ENDING
OF A BEAUTIFUL SUNDAY AT.
TERNOON
By the Overturning of Skiff-Three
Lives Sacrificed in the Presence
of Their Helpless Friends.

1t is forceful truth that ''in the
midst of life we are in death;' indeed
"'Tis the wink of an eye, It's the
draught of a breath, from the blossom
of life to the paleness of death" The sad
ending of three young lives on beauti-
full Sabbath afternoon has filled with
heart-breaks and gloom not only the
homes of the parents, whose grief is in
describable, but their friends as we'll.
The accident occurred at about d
O'Clock near the Shreveport water works
dam on Twelve-Mile bayou. In a skif
were Mr.. Arthur Newman, son of A. J.
Newman; Mr. Sam Williams of Mans
field, accountant at S. G. Dreyfuss &
Co.; Miss Ingersoll Furman, daughter
of Mr.. Richard Furman; and Miss Eve
lyn Hodge, daughter of Mr.. rAthur
Hodge, popular young ladies of many
accomplishments, when the skif was
drawn into the whirlpool or fall of the
dam, and was overturned and the occu-
pants, excepting Mr.. Newman, who
barely saved himself, yielded their lives
in the very sight and hearing of friends
On shore and on bridge nearby, who
did all they could to rescue, and all in
vain. And then devolved on friends the
sad, trying ordeal of irnparting to the
parents the awful truth, which, when it
became gradually public, aroused the
keenest sympathy On every side. And
then followed the grim realization that
the bodies must be recovered, and to
that end every effort was directed intel
ligently. Weary hours of search were
finally rewarded when one after another
the victims were brought to shore, con-
veyed to Warnings and prepared for
burial 1t is some comfort, even in the
darkest Of this gloom, torealize that the
parents have the consolation of having
secured the bodies of their loved ones
from a Watery grave.
Without DEPRESSING from this deplor-
able ending of a pleasant iarlnt, it may
be said that Mr. Williams was young
man of exceptional ability and filled
satisfactorily and creditably the position
of assistant to the bookkeeper. He en-
joyed the fullest confidence of his en-
ployes, the kindly regard, the esteem of
his friends. The body was conveyed to
Mansfield, his boyhood home, and from
there was buried in the cemetery nearby.
The burial of Miss Hodge took place
Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock in the
old cemetery, where vast eoncourse of
people evidenced their sympathy with
the sorrowful father and mother and
other relatives at the grave
This morning at 10 O'Clock the bur
ial of Miss Ingersoll Furnan took place
in the same cemetery, attended by a
large gathering of people, who shared
in a measure in the grief of the parents
in their overwhelming bereavement.
But all is not here of these loved ones
All no! They tell us that beyond the
painless mountains that lift their blue
peaks in the fading distance, they tell
us there is charming valley that drinks
the diamond dews of morning and bathes
in the liquid sunbeains, that is clad ip]
the everlasting green and dotted all over
with the flowers of every hue and
shade" and there, beyond the flush and
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sorely afflicted, will meet again their
lovedones to part no more.