Arizona republican., 1909-08-22
NAVAJO ALSO STRUCK DOWN
Party Was Composed of Goodman, Hoover and Three Indians -Supersti- tion Prevents Indians from Assisting With Re moval of Body

The funeral of Kenneth Goodman was held at the home of his parents, Su- perintendent and Mrs. c. F. Goodman, at the Indian school yesterday after noon at 3:30 o'clock. It was largely attended by the sympathetic friends of the young man and his family. The ser vice was conducted by the Rev. Orville P. Coats, pastor of the First Baptist church.
 The service was held in the parlor, though all of the rooms on the first floor were filled with the friends of the deceased The coffin, which was of a light gray color, was placed in the bay window, a part of it being completely concealed with banks of roses, wreathes and other flowers which were banked about it.
 A male quartette of young friends of Kenneth's opened the service. It was followed by very sensible address de- livered by Mir. Coats. He spoke of the clean and manly character of the boy, of his deep interest in his studies as
  aims and purpose to become worthy and useful man. Had he lived he would undoubtedly have filled a posi- ton Of importance and usefulness fin the world.
 The clergyman spoke of death as a swinging door between the present life and eternity. He said the young man had passed instantly from a savage and rugged scene on this earth to the scene of beauty in Paradise. He re- ferred to Kenneth Goodmans work in connection with the church. He was a member also and a persistent worker in the Sunday school and in the Young Peoples union. He closed with high but well deserved tribute to the young map's character.
 The quartette then sang Nearer My God to Thee" which was followed by the closing prayer. The interment was in Evergreen The pallbearers were four members of last years senior class of the high school, of which he was a member. and two members of the faculty of the Indian school They were C. A. Pierce and A. C. Taylor of the Indian school, and Harry Groves, Clarence TharaldsOn, Fred Spaulding and Earl Wiatt, his classmates. Floral tributes were sent by all the organiZa- tions of which he was a member, beautiful one being from the senior class of the high school.
 The first details of the death of Kenneth Goodman were brought to this city by William B. Freer, one of I the teachers of the Indian school. He arrived on the early morning train yesterday with the body. The story as told by Mir Freer from information obtained at Gallup is as follows:
 The place of the tragedy was Wheat fields, a station some forty-five miles from Ft Defiance and eighty miles from Gallup The party. which was doing surveying work under the recla nation service, consisted of John F. Hoover, who had charge, Kenneth 1 Goodman and three Navajo Indians, | who had been taken along as labOrers.
 The party had just completed their midday meal on Tuesday and had | mounted their horses to proceed to | work There had been heavy rains ! throughout the mountain districts in which they had been working. The l thunderstorms at times were terrific, l breaking suddenly on the party and | then clearing away again almost as | rapidly. The little party became | thoroughly used to them and sought | shelter only when the downpour was | unusually heavy.
 As they proceeded to their work l Tuesday afternoon, a storm which had | gathered quickly, broke on them l Kenneth was leading the way, fol- lowed, perhaps thirty feet behind, by | the three Indians. About an eighth of a mile back was Hoover, who had | stopped to examine some detail of the work. He was not looking toward | Kenneth when the crash came, but | even at the distance of 600 feet he felt the electric shock of it and turned at | once in time to see Kenneth fall from + his horse and roll down a dry ravine The Indians were knocked down. Two | sprang to their feet at once, the other lay writhing on the ground. Hoover ran at once to Kenneth and found life extinct. He called to the two unhurt Indians to help him carry the body up the steep bank. They remained stolid and shook their heads. and he realized at once the awful predicament he was in.
 The superstition of the Indian na- ture will not permit him to touch the body of one who has been struck down from the sky by tie Great Spirit. They were, however, willing to go for assistance. They procured an Indian runner who agreed to carry a message to Ft Defiance, forty-five miles away. The message was to Peter Paquette, the superintendent there. In the mean while. Hoover remained beside the body and did what he could to nelp the indian who had been most badly in