Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1915 — IROQUOIS RIVER GIVES UP ITS DEAD [ARTICLE]

IROQUOIS RIVER GIVES UP ITS DEAD

Body of Delos Wood worth Found By Louie Ramp This Morning At Early Hour.

The body of Delos Wood worth, who lost his life Friday afternoon by falling from the creamery bridge into the Iroquois river, was recovered at about 8 o’clock this Tuesday morning. The work of searching for the body, which had been kept up continuously since he was drowned, was resumed this morning. The crew on the raft had made arrangements to bring the raft from the Sapp bridge, near Foresman, back to the Monnett bridge, and work down stream again. Others were intending to use boats again and search the stream this side of that point. Louie Ramp started out alone and had worked down stream in his row boat to a point below the rapids at the Kanne property on the south side of the stream. He then began the search on the north side of the river and was working up stream, feeling under the willows at the bank with his push pole. About a quarter of a mile below the Kanne rapids the north side of the river bank is full of willow stumps and other obstructions and while pushing his boat up stream over this point Mr. Ramp was startled to see a body rise to the surface a few feet in front of him. He pushed his boat to it, and fastened a rope to it and then telephoned to town the fact of his discovery. Undertaker Wright and many others at once hurried to the spot and the body was taken to his undertaking establishment and prepared' for burial. It was in such a condition as to be unrecognizable. The news of the recovery of the jody soon spread and the other searchers were recalled from their work. The spot where the body was found was not searched by the diver. He had just about reached that spot, when he was asked to cease searching there and work further down stream. When he gave up his work Sunday evening he is said to have made the statement that the body would be found between the spot where found and the spot where he quit work. Landy Magee, who knows the river for miles, had this spot in mind this morning and had intended to search it. He started down stream about the time Mr. Ramp started the search, but was called off for a few minutes to do some errands for those engaged in the work further down stream and missed the chance of finding the body. Fifteen minutes later and he would have been at work at that spot and undoubtedly would have found the body. Since the boy fell into the river Friday afternoon the search for the body has been unceasing and everything was done that was possible to be done to recover it. Friday afternoon and nearly all that night the work was kept up. Saturday a professional diver from Chicago was put to work and he searched the river bottom to the clay banks a few miles down stream, giving up the work Sunday evening owing to the muddy condition of the stream at that point. The dragging of the stream from a raft was another method used which should have been successful, but was not The use of dynamite was resorted to Sunday and Monday, but it, too, was unsuccessful. Monday the banks of the stream were searched with motor boats, but without result. The accumulation of gas in the body was responsible for the rising of the body to the surface of the water and the finding of it at this time. The spot where the body was found is about a mile and a half from the creamery bridge and about a quarter of a mile below the rapids at the Kanne property. Owing to the condition of the body it was decided to have the funeral today, and it will be held at the residence on Franklin street this afternoon at 5 o’clock. Rev. G. W. Titus, of the Christian church, who has constantly worked with the searchers in the water since the drowning, will conduct the services.