An Agonized Mother Witnesses The Drowning of Her Little Child
MRS. SKELTON IS WELL KNOWN IN ANNISTON
Gadsden, March 31. A distressing accident occurred at Guntersville Saturday morning resulting in the death of a bright little three year old girl. A Mrs. Skelton of Alabama City was en route to Jackson county on a visit to relatives and had her three year old child with her. The mother and child alighted from the Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis train and boarded a barge in order to get to the boat. Both had walked nearly the length of the barge and Mrs. Skelton stopped while the child continued to go forward and was looking backwards, when she stepped off into the river and sank from sight. The river at Guntersville is rising rapidly and all efforts to recover the body proved fruitless. Up to the latest reports from there, the body had not been recovered.
Mrs. Skelton and her little girl formerly resided in Anniston and are well known here.
THE ANNISTON STAR FRIDAY APRIL, 1904
DEATH IN THE WATER
