Submitted by
Loyd Bishop

A Little Girl Drowned

Ponca City, Aug 28, - At about 5 o’clock Wednesday evening, while the three children of a family camping on the Dr. Evans place east of town, were bathing in Turkey creek, a little girl seven years old got into deep water and was drowned. The other two children- a girl aged 15 and a boy aged 9- made every possible effort to save her, but were unable to do so. The father of the children--George Archer by name-was fishing further down the stream in company with a man named Tennison, and hearing the screams of the children hastened to the scene with all possible speed but arrived too late too render assistance. The body was in the water about twenty minutes when it as recovered by Tennison. The home of the family was 30 miles south of St. Louis, where the wife and mother died about six months ago. The father started from home in a covered wagon to take the children to relatives in Stillwater, Okla.