The Opinion
July 2,1907
Glenwood, Mills, Iowa

TWO BOYS AND ONE MAN ARE DROWNED

A rather startling discovery was made at the Glenwood Institution Saturday morning,the lifeless body of Nathan HUNSUCKER, one of the boy inmates, being found in oneof the new resevoirs or cisterns. He was 17 years old and had disappeared aboutten days before. It was supposed that he had run away, and an extensive search wasmade for him. The cistern had a large iron lid and it is supposed that his curiosityhad caused him to lift it up when he lost his balance and fell in. The cistern containeda small amount of water which had been put in for the purpose of testing it. Thecistern was one of three recently constructed or the purpose of storing surplus waterwhen the new water system is inaugurated and had not com into use as yet.

Coroner W. D. CRAIG of Henderson was summoned and after examining the facts decidedthat an inquest unnecessary. In his report filed today with Auditor Agan he givesthe cause of death as drowning. The young man had been an inmate there about twoyears,coming from a Catholic Orphanage at Dubuque, his parents being dead. The bodywas interred in the state cemetery at the rear of the Institution.

BOY DROWNED AT TABOR

Stanley BOONE , a boy about 16 years of age a compositor in the Beacon office, wasdrowned last Friday evening in the ASMAN pond west of Tabor. Just how the drowingoccurred no one knows. The boy told his mother that he was going swimming and heleft the home about 7 o'clock. No one was with him sofar as can be learned. Hismother becoming alarmed at his failure to return, search was made for him. His clotheswere found on the bank. THe body was recovered at 10:30 by Elder WORCESTER. THewater was only about 6 feet deep, but it is said the boy could not swim. His motheris a widow and has been teaching school near Tabor where she has resided for severalyears past.

MAN DROWNED NEAR BARTLETT

Robert PIERCE young man aged about 25 or 30, was drowned last Sunday in the Missouririver at a point several miles southwest of Bartlett. He was the only son of a widowedmother and lived ner the edge of the river with her. He had been in the habit ofbathing in some shallow back water near his house, but could not swim. This timethe water was deeper that he had expected, the river being high. The water provedto be about 12 feet deep and he disappeared and was drawn into the main current. The body has not been found as yet.