Arizona republican., 1912-08-17
Drowned Yesterday Near Ingleside While on Hunt ing Trip; Companion Only Saw Hat Floating on the Water
SEARCHED IN VAIN
 FOR THE BODY
Faithful Dog Showed the Hunters Where Mis Mas ter Was Last Seen; Diff culties Which Stand in Way of Recovery

pr. R. D. Wilson was drowned yes terday in the Arizona canal at a point opposite the golf links at Ingleside. The body had not been recovered last night though a search for it had been continued all afternoon and was re- sumed yesterday evening It was thought probable that it would be days before the body would be found
 Dr. Wilson accompanied by Pete
 Davis went on hunting trip yester- day morning. They were shooting doves and white wings along the canal and once when a bird was shot, falling on the opposite side of the canal, pr. Wilson tried to make his dog retrieve it. The dog would not cross the canal Whereupon the doctor without removing his clothing entered
 the water and swan across. Recover
 ing the bird. he threw it into the wa
 ter and called the dog which swan
 to it. In the meantime the doctor entered the water and when Davis
 looked he saw him playing with the
 bird and the dog.
 Davis saw him start back to the
 bank of the canal from which he had
 last started. Davis then sat down in
 the shade d little distance from the
 bank but out of view of the surface
 of the water. A length, hearing no
 more of Dr Wilson he went to the
 bank of the canal and saw his hat
 floating on the water.
 That was about II o'clock and Da- wis having no doubt of the death of pr Wilson telephoned to town of the
 tragedy Sheriff Adams and several others went out and the hunt for the body was begun but in the condition of the canal with a large head of swiftly running water. it was hope less.
 4 pathetic incident showed the ! searchers where pr Wilson went down. His dog kept swimming about d small whirlpool and whining A boat was procured and an improvised grappling hook was arranged and that part Of the canal was gone over thoroughly without result. Tn like manner the hook was drawn over as large surface of the bottom as pos sible.
 On account of the velocity of the water the body must have been swept down rapidly but it is thought that it could not have gone far before sink ing to the bottom The water was heavily charged with silt which would soon pack itself into the clothing. The character of the bottom of the
 canal will make the hunt still more
 difficult even when the water is
 withdrawn. The dredger which widen ed and deepened the waterway left great excavations in the bottom. some e,ix in, ie- likely that the body rolling along the bottom would find Judgment in one
 of these and perhaps would be quick | ly covered with silt.
 The water was shut off from above | but it was stated that on account of the work on the power canal being taken out below the water was back ed up into the main canal so that even then it stood at a depth of 1 three or four feet
 Among those who took part in the search in the afternoon were A. H Mcclellan; the Greer brothers, Ran ] Bone and Leo Troutman. Last night George Lewis, Jack Elliott and Lew Jones each in car with several other persons went to the canal and
 dragged it a long distance below the | point where the doctor was drowned They returned shortly before midnight and reported the failure of the expe- dition.
 l Dr. Wilson was about fifty years Oi
 age He came here about fourteen years ago and engaged in the prac- l tice of medicine, having received his medical education in the south. He ! leaves several relatives in Phoenix
 and vicinity.