The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-05-07
A SAD ENDING
OF A BEAUTIFUL SUNDAY AT
TERNOON
By the Overturning of a 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,
lis 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 a beauti-
full Sabbath afternoon has filled with
heart-breakS and gloom not only the
homes of the parents, whose grief is in
descrlbable, but their friends as we'll
The accident occurred at about
| o'clock near the Shreveport water works
dam on Iwelve-Mile bayou. In a skiff
were Mr. Arthur Newman, son of A. J.
Newman; Mr.. Sam Williams of Mans
field, accountant at S. c. Dreyfuss &
Co.; Miss Ingersoll Furman, daughter
of Mr.. Richard Fur1nan: and Miss Eve
lyn Hodge, daughter of Mr.. rAthur
Hodge, popular young ladies of many
accomplishments, when the skiff 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 devo1ved on friends the
sad, trying ordeal of imparting to the
parents the awful truth, which, when it |
became gradually public, aroused the
Neenest 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. It IS some comfort, even in the
darkest of this gloom, to realize that the
parents have the consolation of having
secured the bodies of their loved ones
from watery grave ~, |
Without DEPRESSING from this deplor-
able ending of a pleasant jaunt, it may
'e said that Mr.. Williams was young
nan Of exceptional ability and filled
satisfactorily and creditably the position
II assistant to the bookkeeper. He en-
Dyed the fullest confidence of his en-
'loyes, the kindly regard, the esteem of
lis friends. The body was conveyed to
Mansfield. his boy'1ood home, and from
here was buried in the cemetery nearby.
The burial Of Miss Hodge took place
tuesday morning at 10 o'clock in the ,
Id cemetery, where vast concourse of
eople evidenced their sympathy with
he sorrowful father and mother and
ther relatives at the grave
Yesterday at 10 o'clock am. the bur-
Il of Miss Ingersoll Furman took place
the same cemetery, attended by a
urge gathering of people, who shared
measure i'll the grief of the parents
their overwhelming bereavement.
'tt all is not here of these loved ones.
n no! They tell us that beyond the
athless mountains that lift their blue
eaks in the fading distance, they tell
5 there is a charming valley that drinks
'e diamond dews of morning and bathes
i the liquid sunbeams, that is clad inI
lie everlasting green and dotted all over
18th the flowers of every hue and
lade, and there, beyond the flush and
'e brightness of the stars, the bereaved,
rely afflicted, will meet again their
welcomes to part no more.