The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-12
While His Father Was Dressing the
Little Fellow Struck Out for Him.
self and Suddenly Sank.
FATHERS BRAVERY FAILED
IN TRYING TO SAVE HIS CHILD HE
NEARLY LOST HIS OWN LIFE.
Pathetic Scene at the Hogan Home
When the Body Was Brought to
the Heartbroken Mother.

Tommy Hogan, the ten-year-old son OF
Charles Hogan, 992 West Pearl street, was
drowned while bathing in White river be-
hind the street-car barns West Wash
ington street yesterday afternoon. His body
was recovered by Bicyclemen Trimpe and
Lowe after about an hours search.
The boy, in company with his father and
fourteen-year-old brother Walter, went fish,
ious to learn to swim that the father volun-
teered to give them lessons. For half an
hour they padded with the aid of their in
structor, and when the father went to the
bank to dress the boys decided to take a
little swim without his assistance. Mr.
Hogan was about two hundred feet down
the bank when the heard his younger child
cry for help. Turning, he saw Walter, the
fourteen-year-old boy, struggling with his
little brother in an attempt to bring him
to shore. In a moment both boys were un-
der the surface of the stream, and the fran
tic parent rushed to the spot where they
had disappeared and plunged wildly into
the water, intent on saving their lives
SAVED OLDER BOY.
He succeeded in safely swimming to shore
with Walter, who was almost exhausted
from his efforts to save his brothers life,
and again swan to the spot where the
younger child had disappeared. Three times
he grappled with the body and three times
he lost his hold, and was compelled to
search again for the drowning boy. He
was in the water so long that he became
of the stream from sheer exhaustion, but
I,x-
attracted by the cries of the older boy.
Had it not been for the timely arrival OF
help, the father, as well as the son, would
have been the victim of White river, and
would have been added to the already long
list of drowned during the year.
The police were notified and were Quick
to arrive on the scene. Bicycle Policemen
Trimpe and Lowe. with graphing hooks
and long poles. were quickly engaged in a
secrch for the body, and their efforts were
rewarded within thirty minutes after thcy
iirst arrived. The father was inconsolable
and his grief brought tears TO the eyes of
many of the AQnlookers who were there
from curiosity only.
af~1s THE MOTHERS GRIEF.
The coroner was notified as soon as the
body had been found. and when permis-
sion SaS given to move the body the weep
ing {a3ef grasped the silent child in his
arms aNdecarried him to his home not far
disrhts Tne scene at the little home when
the Father seTrying the body of his boy,
entered The h&lse, was pathetic in the ex-
treme9 9The moans and cries OF the mother
who's becaRe hysterical on seeing the form,
of het youi!gest child lying cold in death
and the criess tfea father. who blamed
mmself forz QercorfNition of the boy. min
gled With hGWaiiingsso of the brother and
little sister Inflated lad, brought
tears t@the U1eD 0Rany bystanders.
,3fs Inothsrsz2ep3laon was such last
nignfzf that IL NJ N4eessarys to summon
msn,,dasn ,,; @ stten ,ic4 was feared she
NJ ps held, ,to-nssFov aftsEpoon-