aged 12 years
Son of Edward and Ella Jane Bedilion
The Wichita Eagle
Wichita, Kansas
Tuesday, January 20, 1891
Page 4
A Boy Hero
The Winfield Tribune of last Saturday contained an account of a distressingly sad incident, the drowning of two boys Paul Bedilion and Thomas Morgan, while skating on Dutch creek, near that place. The features of the incident, and one that stamps young Morgan as the very embodiment of the stuff of which heroes are made, is told in this graphic paragraph:
"Paul skated to the center of the stream where the ice being thin, he broke through. Morgan was the largest boy in the party, but some distance from the place of the accident. He took off his outer clothing, and went to the rescue. He jumped into the water, caught Paul and held him to the surface. Several attempts to raise him from the water were defeated by the breaking of the thin ice. One of the boys threw Morgan one end of a skate strap, and while holding on to it he attempted to lift Paul out. The boys saw that Morgan could save himself by letting Paul go, and advised him to do so, but he bravely replied: "I will stay with the boy. If I go down tell my mother good bye." His grasp on the strap loosed and locked in each others arms, both sank to the bottom."
The courier tells of another accident almost the counterpart of the one mentioned, that occurred not more then fifty feet from it about three hours before. Will Cary was on the ice when it broke through, but for the prompt assistance of Amos Snowhill would have drowned.
Son of Edward and Ella Jane Bedilion
The Wichita Eagle
Wichita, Kansas
Tuesday, January 20, 1891
Page 4
A Boy Hero
The Winfield Tribune of last Saturday contained an account of a distressingly sad incident, the drowning of two boys Paul Bedilion and Thomas Morgan, while skating on Dutch creek, near that place. The features of the incident, and one that stamps young Morgan as the very embodiment of the stuff of which heroes are made, is told in this graphic paragraph:
"Paul skated to the center of the stream where the ice being thin, he broke through. Morgan was the largest boy in the party, but some distance from the place of the accident. He took off his outer clothing, and went to the rescue. He jumped into the water, caught Paul and held him to the surface. Several attempts to raise him from the water were defeated by the breaking of the thin ice. One of the boys threw Morgan one end of a skate strap, and while holding on to it he attempted to lift Paul out. The boys saw that Morgan could save himself by letting Paul go, and advised him to do so, but he bravely replied: "I will stay with the boy. If I go down tell my mother good bye." His grasp on the strap loosed and locked in each others arms, both sank to the bottom."
The courier tells of another accident almost the counterpart of the one mentioned, that occurred not more then fifty feet from it about three hours before. Will Cary was on the ice when it broke through, but for the prompt assistance of Amos Snowhill would have drowned.
aged 12 years
Son of Edward and Ella Jane Bedilion
The Wichita Eagle
Wichita, Kansas
Tuesday, January 20, 1891
Page 4
A Boy Hero
The Winfield Tribune of last Saturday contained an account of a distressingly sad incident, the drowning of two boys Paul Bedilion and Thomas Morgan, while skating on Dutch creek, near that place. The features of the incident, and one that stamps young Morgan as the very embodiment of the stuff of which heroes are made, is told in this graphic paragraph:
"Paul skated to the center of the stream where the ice being thin, he broke through. Morgan was the largest boy in the party, but some distance from the place of the accident. He took off his outer clothing, and went to the rescue. He jumped into the water, caught Paul and held him to the surface. Several attempts to raise him from the water were defeated by the breaking of the thin ice. One of the boys threw Morgan one end of a skate strap, and while holding on to it he attempted to lift Paul out. The boys saw that Morgan could save himself by letting Paul go, and advised him to do so, but he bravely replied: "I will stay with the boy. If I go down tell my mother good bye." His grasp on the strap loosed and locked in each others arms, both sank to the bottom."
The courier tells of another accident almost the counterpart of the one mentioned, that occurred not more then fifty feet from it about three hours before. Will Cary was on the ice when it broke through, but for the prompt assistance of Amos Snowhill would have drowned.
Son of Edward and Ella Jane Bedilion
The Wichita Eagle
Wichita, Kansas
Tuesday, January 20, 1891
Page 4
A Boy Hero
The Winfield Tribune of last Saturday contained an account of a distressingly sad incident, the drowning of two boys Paul Bedilion and Thomas Morgan, while skating on Dutch creek, near that place. The features of the incident, and one that stamps young Morgan as the very embodiment of the stuff of which heroes are made, is told in this graphic paragraph:
"Paul skated to the center of the stream where the ice being thin, he broke through. Morgan was the largest boy in the party, but some distance from the place of the accident. He took off his outer clothing, and went to the rescue. He jumped into the water, caught Paul and held him to the surface. Several attempts to raise him from the water were defeated by the breaking of the thin ice. One of the boys threw Morgan one end of a skate strap, and while holding on to it he attempted to lift Paul out. The boys saw that Morgan could save himself by letting Paul go, and advised him to do so, but he bravely replied: "I will stay with the boy. If I go down tell my mother good bye." His grasp on the strap loosed and locked in each others arms, both sank to the bottom."
The courier tells of another accident almost the counterpart of the one mentioned, that occurred not more then fifty feet from it about three hours before. Will Cary was on the ice when it broke through, but for the prompt assistance of Amos Snowhill would have drowned.
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