Washoe County NV Archives News
Gallagher, Eddie
 July 31 1890
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June 2, 2004, 1:32 pm

Reno Evening Gazette 

A Petted Baby Boy Drowned in the English Ditch

  A sad drowning accident occurred to-day about noon, whereby a little child 
barely three years of age lost its life in the waters of the English Mill 
ditch.
  E.J. Gallagher, a carpenter by trade, lives with his wife and five children- 
three girls and two boys- in a little cottage near the corner of Sierra and 
Sixth streets.  The English Mill ditch run immediately back of the house, 
which is protected from it by a fence and gateway with a latch.  The other 
side of the fence there are a few feet of ground bordering the ditch, across 
which a footbridge leads to an outhouse.  There are also three steps leading 
down to the water level to enable the family to bucket up water.
  The three-year-old boy, Eddie, when last seen by Mrs. Gallagher was sitting 
on the back steps, and as she returned to the kitchen her last injunction 
was "Eddie, be careful not to fall in."  Twenty minutes later she missed him 
and frantically notified the father, who was employed near by.
  The body of the little boy was found floating and bobbing up and down like a 
cork near Newt Evans' place.  All attempts at resuscitation were useless, the 
little fellow was gone beyond hope, and the corpse was taken back to his home.
  The supposition is that the little fellow after being left on the stoop by 
his mother started to go to the edge of the flowing stream and in some way 
stumbled in.  Though the water is only 20 inches deep at that point, it flows 
with a swift current, that quicikly carried him off beyond available human 
hearing.  The wind also was blowing heavily at the time, preventing his 
infantile cries from being heard.
  The afflicted mother and father were the recipients of much condolence and 
tearful sympathy by the neighbors in the vicinity.

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