The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-26

hI ITH faith like that OF the old He
wv brew prophet. c. II. Titus knelt
beside the sheeted form Of his
little son yesterday and called on God
to breathe back into the silent lips the
breath Of life.
Last night the father slept, for the
first time since he had carried his boys
bleeding body into his home. 1851 East
Seventh South street. That was We'd
nesday. Grief kept him walking the
floor of the kitchen beside the little
bier during the afternoon and night
that followed the tragedy. then hope
kept prayer on his lips Hope still lives.
though physicians say the baby is dead
He was on the seat of his fathers
wagon. when it happened a balky
horse lunged forward. The child fell
beneath the wheel. When they picked
him up, the baby-he was only Is
months of age-was gasping his last
An ugly wound showed where the wa
gon wheel had fractured the skull.
And so the father bore him into the
house. They laid him out afterward.
and covered his little body with a sheet.
Beside the bier the father mOurned
Think Life Is Returning.
Thursday morning the body seemed
strangely limp. And warmth seemed
to come into the limbs To the eyes of
those who watched beside it signs of
life have seemed TO appear.
Yesterday they We're to have buried
| the boy But the funeral was not held.
The faint hope that made neighbors
! believe life might be there has been
with the father a sublime faith. All
day Thursday and all day yesterday
he stayed in the little kitchen beside
the sheeted form.
He is a Quaker, and like the mem
bers of his faith devOuU man. And
/ called upon the Lord to give back the
! life he had taken. He walked the
| floor and as he walked he prayed or
! sang snatches of old Quaker hymns
/ This was his only boy. and in the
warmth and iimpness OF the little limbs
l. see1ned answer TO his prayers might
! be coming.
1 That devotion which looks for direct
! answer to prayer was his and in this
! hour cried unto the Lord Just as the
| old prophet did when he took the body
| OF the Widows little boy into the loft
/ with him. Like Elijah, he hoped 10
/ see the blue lips move and the little
( breast rise and fall
Overcome by Exhaustion.
/ Last night exhaustion overcame him.
| officers had been TO the little home
/ and their questions had harraSsed him.
/ ia the evening doctors had examined
I the body and pronounced life extinct
! He did not see why they should bother
| HAM He felt II was persecution And
| finally his neighbOrS persuaded him to
| go and get the rest he needed
! The neighbors stayed beside the body
all night They sat about il on the
! pain wooden ChaiTS-fOur women and
J man. The feeling that there might
/ be hope kept them-that and pity FOR
I the parents Outside the night wind
I rustled tho grass and Occa sionaIIy il
| stole in through the open door. stirring
| the sheet. But other sound or sign Of
/ life there was none.
! Dr. James Ostermann. deputy coun-
! ty physician, who examined the little
( body during the evening. said that
! death had come instantly. that decay
! was already setting in. But the watcn-
| erS stayed because it would do no harm.
( and it would bring comfort to the par
! ents.
This was the only boy. He was the
! youngest of three children. Thomas
/ Tucker Titus was his name. He was IS
! months of age The physicians who
/ have been asked say that weather
! conditions bring a quick relaxation -
! rlgOr mortis and that this is the case
! IL the present instance They say dis
/ solution will soon set in-is already do
! ing so in fact.
But the father has seen possibiIity Of
/ answer to his prayers and the faith
! with which some men are bIeSt makes
/ him feel that he may be able vet to
! take the baby in his arms and turn to
/ the mother with the words of Elijah.
] See, thy son lveth."