Payette-Washington County ID Archives Obituaries.....Evans, Gerald 1922
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Payette Enterprise 12-7-1922
Payette Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
December 7, 1922
 
TWO WEISER BOYS DROWNED IN SNAKE RIVER
 
A sad accident occured last Sunday morning about ten o'clock near Weiser, when 
two young men, Gerald Evans and Howard Lee, both about 17 years of age, 
started from Weiser to the Oregon side to visit some friends.  They were 
riding in a Ford runabout driven by young Evans and were near the center of 
the bridge when one of the front wheels struck a plank which was loose and 
stuck up above the others.  The car going at a pretty fair rate of speed 
plunged to one side and broke through the railing into the deep water carrying 
both occupants with it.  Mr. J. Hancock a resident of that section, was on the 
bridge at the time of the accident having just met the boys and hearing the 
crash in time to turn and see them go into the water.  Both came up and 
started to swim toward a plank that fell from the bridge but were unable to 
reach it.  Mr. Hancock rushed to the bank with another plank in the hopes of 
rendering assistance but both had went down and never came up.
 
The news soon spread and searching parties gathered in an endeavor to rescue 
the bodies but from the last information with no success.
 
Howard Lee was the son of Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Lee and Gerald was the son of 
Mrs. Emma Evans.  The sad part of the tragedy is that Mrs. Evans is now the 
only surviving member of her family.  Fourteen years ago the husband and two 
children, a son 12, and a daughter, 14, were drowned in the Snake river, while 
Mrs. Evans was an eye witness in an endeavor to save them from the river.

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