People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1895 — Drowned on the Way to a Circus. [ARTICLE]

Drowned on the Way to a Circus.

Douglas. Wyo„ June 5.—Bert Elder, a ranchman living twenty miles from Douglas, left yesterday with a party in a wagon to attend a circus in this city. With him were his wife and children, Mrs. Sherwin and her baby, and Mrs. William Powell and baby. In attempting to ford the Laprela creek, which has been greatly swollen by recent heavy rains, the horses became unmanageable. The wagon was swept into an eddy and upset. Mrs. Elder and baby and Mrs. Powell and her baby were drowned.