The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-07

the place, about half past o'clock, l turned aside from the path to look for the way to this pool Warren, Kemp, and I were together, Hume and Mann being two hundred yards behind us.
 The stream at this point has worn a canyon whose sides are almost verti- cal walls of rock, though further down the stream they are steep banks covered with dense undergroWth, In the brook bed, below, are several pools varying in depth, some of which make excellent swimming places. At the head of the canyon and twenty or more feet above it, on level with the road. is a smooth flat rock crossed by the main road on its upper side, from which it slopes gradually to the bed of the brook, which thus flows across the rock on the side farthest from the road. The rock conducts the stream to a plunge of twenty feet into the pool at the head of the can yon. This is a deep pot-hole. shaped like a kettle, whose rock walls are polished smooth by the whirling ed dies. In dry weather, when the brook is small, many of us have swum up into it from the shalIower pools be- low. But on Monday, with the stream and the cascade swollen by the rain, it was almost impossible of ap- proach, becauS the current at it's mouth was so swift.
 While I was hunting for path in the bushes fifty ards below the water fall, Warren must have started to un- dress on the fat rock referred to abCve-perhaps not intending to go in swimming put only to bathe in the stream above the falls. The rock he was on was slippery because 1t was wet by the rain. Hume was just in time to see him slip, and slide, his momentum increasing with his efforts to gain his balance. In a moment more he was carried by the stream over the falls, going over in sitting posture. He came up struck out two or three strokes, and then went un- der not to be seen again. Mann was not in time to see him and Hume had no chance to reach the pool and he could not swim. Mann went down immediately over the face of the rock into the pool just below the pot-hole into which Warren had fallen. It was a dangerous descent, and I do not know how he could have accomplish ed it, He told me that he fell the last eight or ten feet. The roar of the water prevented Kemp and me from hearing. Having failed to find a path, I came back to the top of the bank and was told by Hume what had happened, ten minutes after the event, rushed back where the path should have been and got into the water at the pool we had intended to swim in, fifty yards below the waterfall, and then swan up to where Mann was working, just below the upper pool He told me he had tried five or six times to get into this upper pool only to be washed down by the water at its mouth. While I was getting my breath and taking off my clothes he made one or two more attempts Then we went together for the last effort, swimming up with the back current to the rock at the mouth of the pot-hole. This time Mann, some how, got a shove on the rock which carried him across the current at the mouth and he got into the back cur rent of the upper pool and was ear- ried around almost under the water fall I tried to follow but was wash ed down by the current, as he had been in his earlier efforts. I swan back to try again and saw Mann car ried around by the circllng currents and finally go under not many feet from the waterfall I do not feel cer- tain whether he was diving for War ren or was sucked under by the whirl
 pool He never came up. It was impossible for me to get into that pool with what strength had left, and it was useless or worse than useless to be carried around by the whirling wa ters unless one had some idea where help was wanted. Hume and Kemp soon returned with rope and Kemp, with the rope about him, dove in the pool below. None of us, even the rescue party, the next day, got into the upper pool, which grew worse as the raln continued later in the afternoon. The search party could only drag it and search it with poles while the wa terfall was so heavy. It was nearly two hours after Warren went down that we gave up hope and Kemp start ed up the mountain for help. He left US at 3:90 and arrived at Ruling at 5:30. Three men started back at V o'clock, with ten coolies, dry clothing food, etc. Meanwhile Hume and .had retired to a temple nearby to get dry. The three men joined us there about midnight. A large party ladders, ropes, grappling irons, etc, arrived at sunrise, and the search be- gan. About four hours later Warren was found in the pool below the pot hole where he fell in. Mann was found half an hour later Both were pulled easily up the rock on ladders.