The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-16
Rose Phillips Life Is Ended in
Rushing Torrents of
Ogden River.
BRUISED BODY RESCUED
AFTER LIFE Is EXTINCT
DisgracefuI Occurrence Fol
lows While the Victim Is
Dragged From Stream.
Special 10 The Tribune.

Special TO The Tribune.
OGDEN. April 14.-By a fractions horse
jumping OFF the roadway in Ogden can
river half a mile above the Lewis place
at 4.3O this afternoon. Miss Rose PM,
hpp, an estimadle young woman, 81
years Of age. was drowned Half an
hour later her bruised and broken body
was Gshed out OF the river three miles
farther down. None OF her clothing re,
mained except her corsets, underwear @ i and
shoes The angry torrent had whipped
OFT everything else. Her neck was broken
and her face and body badly mutilated
and bruised.
Miss Phillips and John Burton, to
whom she was engaged to- be married,
drove up the canyon this afternoon, as
has been their custom. When they
reached the point where the accident oc-
Cured, the story is that four young hood
lums on horseback came down the can
yon at terrific speed, shouting and yell
ing, and as they noticed that the animal
attached to the buggy was nervous. they
waved their hats and shouted and the
frightened animal backed and twisted the
buggy around and backed the conveyance
into the river. Burton, VINO was driving.
fell into the brush on the river side OF
the retaining wall and scarcely reached
the water at all The horse and buggy
containing Miss Phillips, however, land
ed In the middle of the stream. The
waters are higher than ever In the his
tory Of the river, and they were washed
was probably drowned in the early start.
but she was carried down with the tor
rent for three miles. her tender body be-
ing beaten and bruised against the bowl
ders In the stream. The body finally
stranded on a snag shoal at the sani-
tarium- The conveyance was broken TO
pieces and the body OF the horse con-
tinued down the river.
Body Is Rescued.
There was considerable difficulty in re-
and m
resulted Sheriff Sebring, Mike Yokei
and others saw that they could reach the
river than from the north. They crossed
returned to the rivers bank. Gus Scud-
der stripped himself TO his underwear.
the raging and Icy waters and reached
the body. He fastened the rope around
II and by the force Of those on the bank
was hauled ashore. The body was nearly
naked. but Mike Yokel had taken a bath
ing suit from the sanitarum. and the
FIRST act was to clothe the body in the
| suit. y plank was secured and the sheriff
and his party carried the body down the
south side Of the river 10 the old dugway
and from there back 10 the sanltarium.
From there the body was removed TO
Lndquists undertaking establishment at
Ogden.
The incident has caused great distress
In ogden. the young woman being very
popular. Mr.. Burton Is In a distressful
condition and has declared that he
would rather that 1t had been himself.
Her father is Thomas Phillips. the engi-
neer of the Ogden steam laundry. The
family resides on Twenty third street
just east OF Monroe, where the mother
has, has been conducting family grocery
| Both the old people are heartbroken over
the untimely and horrible death OF their
| daughter.
Sheriff sebring highly commends the
bravery and skill OF Gus Scudder who re-
covered the body. 1t was an act OF hero
Ism that few men would undertake. There
| is peculiar incident In connection with
the tragedy. Heretofore. when Mr., Bur
ton and Miss Phillips went up the can
yon they invariably took with them a
departed from this custom. but II they
| had taken the child there would have
been two lives sacrificed instead OF one
Outrageous Incident.
While the dead body OF Miss Phillips
was being fished out of the river. there
was an outrageous occurrence at the end
| or the car line at the sanitarium a
young boy named Wheelwright. aged M
leen came along on wheel. A gang
made UP OF Charles Richards. Elmer p,
Hassell and one man named Mitchell and
| another fellow named Hussin, pushed the
boy over on his bicycle, The boy was
sented the trick played on him In strong
language. One OF the men believed to be
Richards dealt him a frightful blow.
unconscious The blood oozed from his
mouth. nose and ears. and Peter VANS
gard. OF Ogden. who was just coming
In on the car and saw what had happened
went over TO pick up the boy. who was
evidently seriously hurt. with the inten-
ton OF taking him into Ogden. At this
gard. Richards struck him from the
front, Wansgaard went down, and tho
| When the melee was finished Peter had
| his right jaw broken near the chin and
had other injuries: The sherlns force
fort to recover the body of Miss Phillips.
| The thugs got away and climbed the
! Gins on the south side of the river and
| made preparations TO defend themselves
with boulders 10 roll down on any ad-
| yancing party. Deputy Constable Alec
| Wilkinson waited on the road and finally
| hac 10 -, 81.