Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1908 — BURIED ALIVE IN HAND BANK [ARTICLE]

BURIED ALIVE IN HAND BANK

Parents Search for hours Before They Discover Dead Bodies of Their Sons. Walkerton. liid.i Nov. 30— Verne Cripe and Walter Evans, of this place, age fifteen and thirteen years, were found buried at 8 o’clock lact night in a sand bank near the Baltimore & Ohio coal chutes. The boys had left home early in the day to spend the day in their cave in the sand bank. The heavy rains caused the roof of the cave to fall in. The boys had been dead three hours when found. They were of prominent families who had been searching for them for hours. Two young companions led them to the cave which was the boys’ tomb.