JAMES MONROE SLOAS DROWNED IN SPRING
James Monroe SLOAS, 64, ranchman living west of Clark, is dead from a peculiar accident. Apparently seized with vertigo as he was dipping water for domestic use from a spring, he pitched forward with his face in the water and was drowned. His body was not found until some hours later.
Mr. SLOAS lived on the ranch with his son, Roscoe SLOAS. The younger SLOAS was away from home all day Monday and the elder SLOAS, who has been a suffered from epilepsy, prepared to go fishing. Young SLOAS returned about 8 o’clock Monday night and found the house empty. There were a couple of fish there, however, showing that the elder man had carried out his plan and returned successful.
A short search made plain that a tragic accident had happened. The elder SLOAS had taken the water bucket and gone to the spring a short distance from the house. This spring had been dug out of the bank, being several feet deep. Apparently when stooping down to get water he had been seized with vertigo or epilepsy and pitched forward into the spring, the water coming to his shoulders, where he drowned.
The funeral will be held in Steamboat Springs tomorrow afternoon.
(Published in The Steamboat Pilot (Steamboat Springs, CO), Wednesday, July 14, 1926.)
James Monroe SLOAS, 64, ranchman living west of Clark, is dead from a peculiar accident. Apparently seized with vertigo as he was dipping water for domestic use from a spring, he pitched forward with his face in the water and was drowned. His body was not found until some hours later.
Mr. SLOAS lived on the ranch with his son, Roscoe SLOAS. The younger SLOAS was away from home all day Monday and the elder SLOAS, who has been a suffered from epilepsy, prepared to go fishing. Young SLOAS returned about 8 o’clock Monday night and found the house empty. There were a couple of fish there, however, showing that the elder man had carried out his plan and returned successful.
A short search made plain that a tragic accident had happened. The elder SLOAS had taken the water bucket and gone to the spring a short distance from the house. This spring had been dug out of the bank, being several feet deep. Apparently when stooping down to get water he had been seized with vertigo or epilepsy and pitched forward into the spring, the water coming to his shoulders, where he drowned.
The funeral will be held in Steamboat Springs tomorrow afternoon.
(Published in The Steamboat Pilot (Steamboat Springs, CO), Wednesday, July 14, 1926.)
JAMES MONROE SLOAS DROWNED IN SPRING
James Monroe SLOAS, 64, ranchman living west of Clark, is dead from a peculiar accident. Apparently seized with vertigo as he was dipping water for domestic use from a spring, he pitched forward with his face in the water and was drowned. His body was not found until some hours later.
Mr. SLOAS lived on the ranch with his son, Roscoe SLOAS. The younger SLOAS was away from home all day Monday and the elder SLOAS, who has been a suffered from epilepsy, prepared to go fishing. Young SLOAS returned about 8 o’clock Monday night and found the house empty. There were a couple of fish there, however, showing that the elder man had carried out his plan and returned successful.
A short search made plain that a tragic accident had happened. The elder SLOAS had taken the water bucket and gone to the spring a short distance from the house. This spring had been dug out of the bank, being several feet deep. Apparently when stooping down to get water he had been seized with vertigo or epilepsy and pitched forward into the spring, the water coming to his shoulders, where he drowned.
The funeral will be held in Steamboat Springs tomorrow afternoon.
(Published in The Steamboat Pilot (Steamboat Springs, CO), Wednesday, July 14, 1926.)
James Monroe SLOAS, 64, ranchman living west of Clark, is dead from a peculiar accident. Apparently seized with vertigo as he was dipping water for domestic use from a spring, he pitched forward with his face in the water and was drowned. His body was not found until some hours later.
Mr. SLOAS lived on the ranch with his son, Roscoe SLOAS. The younger SLOAS was away from home all day Monday and the elder SLOAS, who has been a suffered from epilepsy, prepared to go fishing. Young SLOAS returned about 8 o’clock Monday night and found the house empty. There were a couple of fish there, however, showing that the elder man had carried out his plan and returned successful.
A short search made plain that a tragic accident had happened. The elder SLOAS had taken the water bucket and gone to the spring a short distance from the house. This spring had been dug out of the bank, being several feet deep. Apparently when stooping down to get water he had been seized with vertigo or epilepsy and pitched forward into the spring, the water coming to his shoulders, where he drowned.
The funeral will be held in Steamboat Springs tomorrow afternoon.
(Published in The Steamboat Pilot (Steamboat Springs, CO), Wednesday, July 14, 1926.)
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