The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-07-28
Remains of Miss Iva Rist We're
Located in Stream
CAUGHT IN DRIFTW00D
Funeral Will Be Held Tomorrow
From Family Residence On
Mound Avenue
From thursdays DAILY.

Taught III d Jail Ol uIhIWoou, aoouI
100 feet upstream from the place
where the Northwestern railroad
trestle crosses MinneOpa creek, the
body of Iva Rist, the sixteen-year-
old girl, who fell from a small bridge
in the park Tuesday afternoon, was
found yesterday afternoon about five
o'clock.
The body was discovered by Len
Burrill, 329 Cherry street, and Gift
ford Francis, young man who is
employed at the Perrin garage. Both
were out in the middle of the stream
F, in bathing suits. The water was about
up to their necks at that place. They
had observed that logs and all kinds
of driftwood floated right into that
part of the stream and Francis sug-
gested that the body would probably
| float into the same spot. So the two
! men set to work clearing away the
driftwood, and sent it floating furth-
er downstream. Several other men
were down at the trestle, catching the
driftwood and making sort of bar
| rier at the trestle in the hope of
catching the body. 1t seems that the
| wire netting at the tresle was only an
! imperfect guard against the body
| floating by.
| Caught in Driftwood.
AS the two men were working on
the driftwood, both stepped on the
| body of the girl at almost the same
| moment. Mr.. Burrill stepped on her
head and Mr.. Francis on her feet.
| They pulled the body out from the
| driftwood with considerable effort, for
| it was caught there very tightly.
The body was carried to the shore,
placed in an automobile and taken to
the undertaking rooms of Morris &
| Andrist.
Clifford Francis had been among
the many searchers all day long, hav-
| ing gone out at the request of the
| Rist family. Another who worked hard
in searching was Roy Keene, brother
of Esther Keene, the dead girls
| cousin, who fell into the water at the
same time that Iva Rist did There
were many others who took part in
the search. At times rope was held
| across the stream, with several men
! holding it on each bank, while others
| in bathing suits searched for the body
in the swift current and chung to the
rope.
The body was in fairly good condi-
ton, though the face was somewhat
scratched. The light shoes that she
wore were gone and her hat was also
missing. All the other clothing was
still on the body.
| The funeral will take place tOmor-
row afternoon at 1870 o'clock from
the Rist family residence at $50
Mound avenue and at two O'CLOCK
from the Centenary Methodist
church. The service will be in the
charge of Rev. G.. A. Cahoon. pastor
of the church, and Rev. John Nc
Cormick of Winnebago, president OF
| Parker college, a very near friend OF
the family. The active pail bearers
will be boys and the honorary pail
bearers will be girls. The following
have been chosen as active pail
bearers: Clifford Francis, Leroy
Keene, Wesley Ore, William Miller
George Loucks and Aylmer LIE Baron
The girls who will be honorary
| pail bearers are Esther Keene, Irene
Veum, Ruth Francis, Helen Born,
| Myrtle Croswell and Elsie Young
| A. C. Edwards, attorney of North
Mankato, will sing. ua
/ Since the above writing, it has
/ been found that Clifford Francis is
unable to act as active pail bearer, and
Earl Newly of LIE Hitler has been
secured in his place.
It has also been decided to aban-
don the idea of having honorary
| pail bearers. But seats will be re-
served for girl friends of the de-
ceased in the church and they are
requested to come dressed in white
The interment will be in Glen
wood cemetery.