Ex-Mayors Son Drown In Mill Pond
Efforts to Resuscitate Four Year Old Boy Prove Unsuccessful
Body Underwater More Than Forty Minutes
Zachary Roper, 4-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Owen Roper, was swept to his death last Friday afternoon in the swift, eddying currents of the mill pond directly below the Lake George dam when he tumbled into the water while playing by the Roper-Brown mill.
The tradgedy occurred while the child and his 5-year old companion, Bobby Woods, were playing on an old water intake pipe located at the corner of the mill. The boy slipped off and weighted down by a cowboy suit he was wearing sank almost immediately. His playmate, afraid to tell what had happended, waited more than fifteen minutes before explaining the accident to attendants at Isakson's Garage, next door to the Wood's home.
Searching parties were organized immediately and Joe Hepp, manager of the Stand Oil Station, donned a bathing suit in order to dive for the boy.
Nearly a half-hour later the body was pulled from below seven feet of water by grappling hooks in the hands of Albert Verplank and Harold Anderson. The current in the pond had washed the body more than 60 fet from the spot where the accident occurred.
The first aid squad of the Northern Indiana Public Service company immediately began effeorts to resuscitate the youth, working unsuccessfully for more than an hour on the body.
Besides his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roper, the boy leaves as survivors three sisters, Marjorie, Phyllis and Shirley and one brother, Jarvis.
Funeral services were held at 2 PM Monday afternoon at the Roper home with undertaker Flynn of Chesterton in Charge. Rev. C. A. Brown officiated and burial was made in Crown Hill Cemetery.
Efforts to Resuscitate Four Year Old Boy Prove Unsuccessful
Body Underwater More Than Forty Minutes
Zachary Roper, 4-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Owen Roper, was swept to his death last Friday afternoon in the swift, eddying currents of the mill pond directly below the Lake George dam when he tumbled into the water while playing by the Roper-Brown mill.
The tradgedy occurred while the child and his 5-year old companion, Bobby Woods, were playing on an old water intake pipe located at the corner of the mill. The boy slipped off and weighted down by a cowboy suit he was wearing sank almost immediately. His playmate, afraid to tell what had happended, waited more than fifteen minutes before explaining the accident to attendants at Isakson's Garage, next door to the Wood's home.
Searching parties were organized immediately and Joe Hepp, manager of the Stand Oil Station, donned a bathing suit in order to dive for the boy.
Nearly a half-hour later the body was pulled from below seven feet of water by grappling hooks in the hands of Albert Verplank and Harold Anderson. The current in the pond had washed the body more than 60 fet from the spot where the accident occurred.
The first aid squad of the Northern Indiana Public Service company immediately began effeorts to resuscitate the youth, working unsuccessfully for more than an hour on the body.
Besides his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roper, the boy leaves as survivors three sisters, Marjorie, Phyllis and Shirley and one brother, Jarvis.
Funeral services were held at 2 PM Monday afternoon at the Roper home with undertaker Flynn of Chesterton in Charge. Rev. C. A. Brown officiated and burial was made in Crown Hill Cemetery.
Ex-Mayors Son Drown In Mill Pond
Efforts to Resuscitate Four Year Old Boy Prove Unsuccessful
Body Underwater More Than Forty Minutes
Zachary Roper, 4-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Owen Roper, was swept to his death last Friday afternoon in the swift, eddying currents of the mill pond directly below the Lake George dam when he tumbled into the water while playing by the Roper-Brown mill.
The tradgedy occurred while the child and his 5-year old companion, Bobby Woods, were playing on an old water intake pipe located at the corner of the mill. The boy slipped off and weighted down by a cowboy suit he was wearing sank almost immediately. His playmate, afraid to tell what had happended, waited more than fifteen minutes before explaining the accident to attendants at Isakson's Garage, next door to the Wood's home.
Searching parties were organized immediately and Joe Hepp, manager of the Stand Oil Station, donned a bathing suit in order to dive for the boy.
Nearly a half-hour later the body was pulled from below seven feet of water by grappling hooks in the hands of Albert Verplank and Harold Anderson. The current in the pond had washed the body more than 60 fet from the spot where the accident occurred.
The first aid squad of the Northern Indiana Public Service company immediately began effeorts to resuscitate the youth, working unsuccessfully for more than an hour on the body.
Besides his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roper, the boy leaves as survivors three sisters, Marjorie, Phyllis and Shirley and one brother, Jarvis.
Funeral services were held at 2 PM Monday afternoon at the Roper home with undertaker Flynn of Chesterton in Charge. Rev. C. A. Brown officiated and burial was made in Crown Hill Cemetery.
Efforts to Resuscitate Four Year Old Boy Prove Unsuccessful
Body Underwater More Than Forty Minutes
Zachary Roper, 4-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Owen Roper, was swept to his death last Friday afternoon in the swift, eddying currents of the mill pond directly below the Lake George dam when he tumbled into the water while playing by the Roper-Brown mill.
The tradgedy occurred while the child and his 5-year old companion, Bobby Woods, were playing on an old water intake pipe located at the corner of the mill. The boy slipped off and weighted down by a cowboy suit he was wearing sank almost immediately. His playmate, afraid to tell what had happended, waited more than fifteen minutes before explaining the accident to attendants at Isakson's Garage, next door to the Wood's home.
Searching parties were organized immediately and Joe Hepp, manager of the Stand Oil Station, donned a bathing suit in order to dive for the boy.
Nearly a half-hour later the body was pulled from below seven feet of water by grappling hooks in the hands of Albert Verplank and Harold Anderson. The current in the pond had washed the body more than 60 fet from the spot where the accident occurred.
The first aid squad of the Northern Indiana Public Service company immediately began effeorts to resuscitate the youth, working unsuccessfully for more than an hour on the body.
Besides his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roper, the boy leaves as survivors three sisters, Marjorie, Phyllis and Shirley and one brother, Jarvis.
Funeral services were held at 2 PM Monday afternoon at the Roper home with undertaker Flynn of Chesterton in Charge. Rev. C. A. Brown officiated and burial was made in Crown Hill Cemetery.
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