Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Clelland, Woodward  1925
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Payette Independent, Payette, Idaho, September 3, 1925
Payette Independent
Payette, Idaho
Sept. 3, 1925

BOY KILLED BY LIVE WIRE

WOODWARD CLELLAND WHILE FISHING NEAR OLD RIVER BRIDGE RECEIVED DEATH STROKE 
FROM ELECTRIC LINE WIRE

While playing on the old Payette River Bridge, Woodward Clelland met with a 
terrible accident, which has since proved fatal.
Three boys, Woodward Clelland, Delman McKamey and Brooks Landon, were fishing 
near the old Payette River Bridge and as boys will, were climbing the 
superstructure when Woodward struck the high power electric wire. The shock 
went right through him, coming out at his feet. The boy fell onto the floor of 
the bridge. Mrs. Sam Walker, who was passing, summoned help and the boy was 
rushed to the Hospital at Ontario, where Drs. Avey, J. C. and I. R. Woodward 
worked with him, doing all that medical skill could suggest, until two o'clock 
this morning, when the little fellow passed away, without having regained 
consciousness.
The doctors stated that the blow was so violent and sudden, that the child 
could not even have known what it was that struck him down. The accident 
occurred at about seven o'clock Wednesday evening. No funeral arrangements will 
be made until the nearly distracted mother can be consulted.
Woodward Clelland was eleven years old, and is the youngest son of Mrs. Frank 
Cazier. It is not an empty phrase to say the boy was popular, his bright jolly 
disposition made him a general favorite and there is not a mother in Payette 
today whose heart is not with poor Mrs. Cazier in her hour of terrible grief.

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