Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1920 — MOROCCO YOUTH DROWNS. [ARTICLE]

MOROCCO YOUTH DROWNS.

Attica, Ind., July 16.—While swimming in Pine creek, at .the old dam a few miles west of here, Charles Watkins of Morocco, Ind., 19 years old, son of Mrs. Ed kins, was drowned about 3 o’clock this afternoon. The young man, with his brother Albert and his Cousin, Charles Micklee, Had gone to the creek to bathe. They were all in the water when young Watkins sudenly called for help and sank. He came" to the surface and young Micklee atempted to aid him, but the drowning boy was helpless, and Micklee was unable to hold him.