Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1916 — Double Drowning Near Monon Friday Afternoon. [ARTICLE]

Double Drowning Near Monon Friday Afternoon.

Robert Foster, aged 39, and his son, Russel, aged 8, were drowned in the Monon creek near Monon Friday afternoon. Mr. Foster was a prominent farmer of White county and resided near the scene of the tragedy, with his family and broth-er-in-law, John Sense, wife and* son of Lafayette, were spending the day picnicking and fishing on the banks of the creek. The Foster boy and.the Sense lad, both about the “same age, wanted to go in swimming. ' The former got beyond his depth and the lather plunged into the stream to ,rescue him, but both were drowned before further assistance could be given them. Mr. Foster is survived by a wife and three small children.