The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-05-13
MILLsAPS COLLEGE STUDENT
DROWNED TRYING TO SAVE
BOY.
The Country Club Lake Was the
Scene of Very Sad Tragedy Yes
terday Afternoon, When Two Per
sons Lost Their lives.

A. c.. Anderson, divinity student
at Millsaps College, and Willie Boyd,
of the Methodist Orphanage, were
drowned yesterday afternoon in the
lake on the Country Club grounds in
Rankin county, five miles out ON the
Jackson and Brandon road.
Word was brought to Jackson dur
ing the afternoon that two persons
had been drowned and large number
OF young men hastened to the scene.
The bodies were recovered i'm several
feet of water shortly before night, and
were brought to the city.
Mr. Anderson was young man of
about % years of age,whose home is
at Mayhem, Lowndes county, but he
and his brother, C. G. Anderson, have
been attending Millsaps College the
past year or two, the former studying
for the ministry.
Saturday morning Mr.. Anderson
gathered a score or more of the small
boys of the college neighborhood and
from the Methodist Orphanage, and
took them out to the Country Club for
a days outing and picnic. There
is a large artificial lake ON the
grounds, and on which there are a
few boats. Eight of the boys of the
party occupied one of these boats, and
shortly after noon,or about half past
one their little craft was overturned
and the boys spilled in the lake where
the water lis said to have BEEN fifteen
or twenty feet deep.
Naturally there was the widest ex-
citement, and Mr. Anderson, who was
the ondy man in the party, plunged
into the water and swan to the res
cue. He had pulled one of the boys
to shore and safely, but seeing little
Willie Boyd struggling in the water.
he plunged back, tired and exhausted
as he was,and managed to reach him.
The boy GRABBED him about the neck,
and after a short strlggle,both sank
to the bottom, locked in a close EN-
brace.
A little son of Superintendent Will
liams, of the Orphanage, was among
the boys saved from drowning but not
by Mr. Anderson.
The boys were heartbroken and
panic stricken when they realized wha
had happened, but some of them put
out for town to give the alarm, and in
a short while a. number of Millsaps
boys and others were on their way
to the scene. After diving about in
the pond for quite a while, the bodies
were recovered and brought back to
the city.
Mr.. Anderson,the brave young Bible.
student, who thus gave his life to
save that of child, is spoken of as
one of the most promising young mem
ON the Millsaps campus He was a
member of the Sophomore class, and
its leader. In fact, he seems to
have been one of the leaders in every
good cause, and his sudden and un-
timely death has caused great sorrow
among the hundreds of young men.
who were his college associates, whi1
his teachers are inconsolable.
The body of Mr.. Anderson was
shipped to his home at Mayhem, and
that of Willie Boyd, who was about
Is years old, but very small for hi
age, was taken to the Orphanage and
prepared for burial. The intermen
will take place today at Ceadrlawn
Both the young men were from
Lowndes county, Willie Boyd being
from Columbus. -Clarion-Ledged, ef
Sunday.
ON THE WARPATH.
Gills-You don't mean to tell me
ycd had fight with Beatty? Why,
that fellow doesn't know when he is
licked.
Dills Well, perhaps he doesn't but
when got through with him I'll bet
he had suspicious.