Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-31
DIVES INTO
MIRE;; DROWNED
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caught in his undertaking and be-
| meath his shoulder. Even then, though
| there was no sign of life and he had
| been beneath the mud and water for
more than half an hour work of re-
suscitation was begun and kept UP for
| a long time. The effort was without
results, however, and the body was
conveyed to the morgue.
Decide TO Take Swim
Young Carlisle, with four compan-
| ions, two of whom were Otto Stewart,
| 16 years old, who lives at Avenue Six
| ty-four and Lincoln street, and Sierre
! Correli, living on Avenue Fifty-eight,
was walking through new tract
which is being opened up on Avenue
Fifty between Aldama and Monte
Vista streets, and they came to an eX-
cavation from ten to twenty feet deep,
partly filled with water.
One of the boys suggested swim,
and all agreed. The day was hot and
the water looked cool and inviting and
! there wasn't a house within more than
! a mile, but for fear some one might
come along the boys stripped only to
their Undertaking, knowing the warm
sun would dry them within a few min
utes after they had left the water.
| Selecting favorable point which
iutted out into the water, young Car
| Isle joined his hands above his head
and shouting Come along, boys" dove
! into the water.
There was a splash as his body
| struck the water and down he went
out OF sight. Little ripples parted
from the spot and grew wider and
wider and the other boys waited for
| him to come up.
or a ND
another, and the water had become
stilled except for a current which
seemed to come from below, as if some
force was throwing it upward from
the bottom.
Laughter and Fun Cease
The laughter and fun of the boys
were stilled. Their faces whitened
with fear and Otto Stewart, with the
cry. Hes caught and is drowning"
jumped into the water and dove
straight down where the current con-
tinued to boil up from below.
He managed to catch hold of the
body of Carlisle and gave ire
mendous tug, but could not free il
and came up gasping for air. Taking
| a long breath he dove again and
catching hold of the body around the
waist braced his feet on the bottom
and again tugged and tugged to
loosen it. His feet sank in the soft
bottom. however, and he was COM
PEELED to let go and ascend to the
surface again to get air.
Crying to his companions to get
help, he went down third time and
pulled and hauled away at the body
| of his friend but could not free 1t
from the hold in the death trap, and
with lungs bursting and head roaring
| for want of air he started to the top
! How he got there he never knew, for
| he was unconscious when he reached
the surface and had not two of the
boys possessed presence of nina
enough to wade out and seize him ne,
too, would have drowned.
In the meantime at the call for help
from Stewart young Cornell had ran in
the direction of the nearest house, al
most half a mile away, which proved
to be the residence of DR.. NJ. H Cham
| berlain. To him he shouted the alarm,
and the physician hurried to the spot,
getting there as the body of Stewart
was pulled from the water. Dr. Cham
| berlain at once went to work to revive
| him. and at first it seemed as If death
| had claimed the plucky boy, but after
almost an hour of hard work he re-
gained consciousness and was taken 20
| his home.
Falls Unconscious
After he had alarmed the doctor
young Cornell continued running Cor
| further aid, going to No. II fire COM
pany at Avenue Sixty and PASADENA
| avenue, where he gasped out his story
and then pitched headlong to the
ground unconscious
| While some of the firemen worked
over the boy to bring him back to con-
seriousness Capt. Francis A. Alvarez,
| Lieut.. L. II. Davis and Fireman George
! w. Simons, armed with ladders and
| ropes ran as fast as they could 10 the
| scene of the accident.
| When they arrived there was crowd
around the place. but the body of Car
| isle was still beneath the water. Hur-
! riedly ladders were tied and braced
and lowered into the pond, and strip
| ping off his clothes Capt. Alvarez went
down the ladder beneath the surface
to Full the body out. He was unable to
| do so, and was joined by Lieut., Davis,
but neither man was able to bulge the
! body of the boy Time and again the
| fremen went down into the water. but
great as were their efforts the hold 0f
| the ooze and mud at the bottom was
| too strong for them. and finally after 1t
had been determined that life was eX-
tinct in the body two sticks of dyna-
mite were showed into the mud some
distance away and exploded in the eff
| fort to loosen the body,
other fremen armed with pike poles
had arrived by this time, and these
were thrust down into the water from
the ladder, and after q time hold was
secured, and ropes having been at
tached to the poles dozen persons got
hold and pulled, and at the fourth tug
at the ropes the body came away and
was brought to the surface.
From its appearance the boy had evil
IDENTIFY been buried in the mud to below
his shoulders, and the soft, clinging
earth had then closed in on, him and
| held him as in wise.
| DR.. Chamberlain, who had remained on
the ground, went to work on the body
and made every effort by use of arti-
| fetal respiration and of heart stimuli
Iants to start the spark of life going
but his skill and work and the work of
others were useless.
The coroner was notified and the
body was ordered to the Bresee morgue,
where an inquest will be held. Young
Carlisle was a schooboy, being pupil
at the Workable school, and was popu-
lar among his fellows and highly re-