Bisbee daily review., 1907-08-14
FROM MOTHERS ARMS ID DEATH
 IN WATER
Four-Year-0Id Child of E. H., Sheldon Torn From Ex- hauSted Mother Crossing Torrent in Gully.

F. H. sheldon, we'll known plum Der, manager of the Wa ren Plumbing company, was summoGHd to his hame, about four miles this side of Naco, yesterday morning by a message tell ing him of the loss of his four-year- old child through drowning, and the narrow escape of his wife and two other children through the same cause.
 The story of the tragedy, as heard from the lips of the sadly stricken mother yesterday afternoon at the home of MT. and Mrs. W. l.. Humphrey, friends who are caring for her until the recovery of herself and children from their bereavement and shock, was one of utmost pathos, carrying as well an unintentional re- cital of heroism which appealed deep ly.
 Early in the evening Mrs. Sheldon had permitted her three eldest chill dren, s, and years, respectively, to go to a neighbors for a visit. In their absence a storm of much sever ity came up, lasting from to g o'clock. AS it abated, Mrs. Sheldon becoming alarmed for the safety of her little ones and fearing they might start for home alone, gathered her four months babe in her arms ana taking a three-year-old child by the hand, set out for her neighbor's. She arrived in safety, and getting the three children, started home with all five.
 On the way the storm gained and blinded by it she wandered from the path by which she had come into a gully. in which a sudden sush of water had come As she struggled in the current it raised to her waist and she was carried from he. feet. The babe at her breast and the next oldest child she managed to cling to. but the four-year-old child, a little boy, was swept from her grasp as she was carried struggling to tha Op posite side of the gully.
 There her despair and fear that the other two children would attempt to come through the water alone.
 gether with the cries of terror which reached her from them above the storm. drove all fear of the torrent from her mind, and running with the two little ones she had saved to higher ground, she dashed back and struggled through the waters safely to the side of her other children.
 With these she breasted the tor rent again in fear and agony for the safety of the other two children. Her frail strength, already superhumanly taxed, the greater weight of the older children would probably have made their fate that of the drowned child on this fourth passage over the stream but for an unknown Mexican passing along the road in the storm, who hearing their screams went into the torrent and pulled them forth. This man, a stranger in a strange land, then silently saw mother and children home and departed unknown and unsung as he came. He gave the word out at a neighbOr's of the dis tress of the family and passed on without word of his own part. Later a searching party was organized for the body of the dead child. It was found when daybreak came, being first seen by Ben Humphrey, Of the Greene Cananea forwarding agency at Naco. With him were his father, W. l.. Humphrey. and Constable Els, who led the searchers through the night. The water had fallen and the body lay in plain view when found.