Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1916 — CHILD DROWNED IN KANKAKEE [ARTICLE]

CHILD DROWNED IN KANKAKEE

Diana Club’s Pet Falls Out of Boat Into the River and All Efforts at Resuscitation Fail. Crown Point, Ind., May 29.—Little Norman Harris, the pride of the Diana Club, near Thayer, Ind., is no more. Yesterday his little body was taken out of the waters of the Kankakee river, where he had fallen out of a boat into which he had climbed. The four year old lad and another boy companion were playing near the river shortly after supper when tffd accident happened, the lad giving the alarm and being able to show the 'place where his companion fell in. The body was in the water, it is judged, over thirty minutes» The pulmotor squad from Crown Point responded to a, call sent in nearly an hour and a half after the drowning and made the trip to the Diana Club house and was working over the little ibody in twenty-five minutes after the call came in. Three tanks of oxygen were used, besides all the other efforts of the doctors and lifesaving creiw, but to nio avail, it being impossible to resuscitate the child. The little lad is a nephew of the keeper of the Diana Club and his mother, Mrs. Harris, is a widow, losing her husband less than a year age. The added affliction has left her in a precarious condition and fears were felt for her recovery last evening.