Twin Falls-Cassia County ID Archives News.....Branning's Body Found at Falls September 29, 1905
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Twin Falls News September 29, 1905
RECOVERED FROM RIVER NEAR POWER COMPANY'S POWER HOUSE TUESDAY EVENING.
Victim of Drowning Accident Cruelly Battered by Rocks-Inquest Deemed 
Unnecessary- Remains Interred In Twin Falls Cemetery on Thursday Morning.
  The body of C. F. Branning, the wood worker who lost his life by drowning at 
Shoshone Falls on Sunday, September 17, was found floating in the water a 
short distance below the power house of the Shoshone Falls Power company on 
Tuesday evening. The remains were anchored for the night and carried out of 
the canyon through the power company's tunnel on Wednesday, Coroner Patterson 
decided that no inquest was necessary and the body was buried in Twin Falls on 
Thursday morning.
  This was the first instance in which the body of a person drowned at 
Shoshone Falls came to the surface in less than three weeks. The early 
discovery of Branning's remains is attributed to the low water which reduced 
the circulation below the falls and permitted objects to float down stream.
  Branning's body was mutilated by contact with the rocks. It was brought to 
the parlors of Undertaker Havlicek. The widow and brother of the deceased were 
notified that the body had been recovered and they quickly came here from Salt 
Lake City. It was decided to inter the remains in the Twin Falls cemetery and 
this was done on Thursday morning with simple ceremony.

Additional Comments:
Buried at the old Twin Falls Cemetery, not known if his body was reburied 
later in the new Twin Falls cemetery.

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