The Idaho Statesman
July 24, 1915
DETAILS OF TRAGIC DEATH
Coroner Writes of Efforts to Rescue
Mrs. Evans From River Current
Middleton - Details of the drowning accident at Bad Rock canyon in Montana which resulted in the tragic death of Bertha Kohlhepp Evans, daughter of Henry Kohlhepp and sister of Mrs. W. T. Plowhead, have been received from J. E. Waggener, coroner of Flathead county, Montana.
According to the coroner's letter, the young lady and several friends were fishing from a reef in the river where the current is unusually swift. Making a misstep, she fell into the current. One of the friends grasped the fishing rod to which she was still clinging, but the rod became unjointed. A line was then thrown to her but this broke before rescue could be effected and she was carried out of reach.
Mrs. Evans bravely tried to breast the current but seeing that this was an impossibility, she waved farewell to her friends on the shore and sank from sight. The body was picked up three miles below. All possible efforts at resuscitation were made, but in vain.
Funeral services were held by the Presbyterian minister on July 14 and burial was made in Conrad Cemetery at Kalispell, Montana.
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Her mother was Bertha Henrietta Dobrunz.
July 24, 1915
DETAILS OF TRAGIC DEATH
Coroner Writes of Efforts to Rescue
Mrs. Evans From River Current
Middleton - Details of the drowning accident at Bad Rock canyon in Montana which resulted in the tragic death of Bertha Kohlhepp Evans, daughter of Henry Kohlhepp and sister of Mrs. W. T. Plowhead, have been received from J. E. Waggener, coroner of Flathead county, Montana.
According to the coroner's letter, the young lady and several friends were fishing from a reef in the river where the current is unusually swift. Making a misstep, she fell into the current. One of the friends grasped the fishing rod to which she was still clinging, but the rod became unjointed. A line was then thrown to her but this broke before rescue could be effected and she was carried out of reach.
Mrs. Evans bravely tried to breast the current but seeing that this was an impossibility, she waved farewell to her friends on the shore and sank from sight. The body was picked up three miles below. All possible efforts at resuscitation were made, but in vain.
Funeral services were held by the Presbyterian minister on July 14 and burial was made in Conrad Cemetery at Kalispell, Montana.
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Her mother was Bertha Henrietta Dobrunz.
The Idaho Statesman
July 24, 1915
DETAILS OF TRAGIC DEATH
Coroner Writes of Efforts to Rescue
Mrs. Evans From River Current
Middleton - Details of the drowning accident at Bad Rock canyon in Montana which resulted in the tragic death of Bertha Kohlhepp Evans, daughter of Henry Kohlhepp and sister of Mrs. W. T. Plowhead, have been received from J. E. Waggener, coroner of Flathead county, Montana.
According to the coroner's letter, the young lady and several friends were fishing from a reef in the river where the current is unusually swift. Making a misstep, she fell into the current. One of the friends grasped the fishing rod to which she was still clinging, but the rod became unjointed. A line was then thrown to her but this broke before rescue could be effected and she was carried out of reach.
Mrs. Evans bravely tried to breast the current but seeing that this was an impossibility, she waved farewell to her friends on the shore and sank from sight. The body was picked up three miles below. All possible efforts at resuscitation were made, but in vain.
Funeral services were held by the Presbyterian minister on July 14 and burial was made in Conrad Cemetery at Kalispell, Montana.
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Her mother was Bertha Henrietta Dobrunz.
July 24, 1915
DETAILS OF TRAGIC DEATH
Coroner Writes of Efforts to Rescue
Mrs. Evans From River Current
Middleton - Details of the drowning accident at Bad Rock canyon in Montana which resulted in the tragic death of Bertha Kohlhepp Evans, daughter of Henry Kohlhepp and sister of Mrs. W. T. Plowhead, have been received from J. E. Waggener, coroner of Flathead county, Montana.
According to the coroner's letter, the young lady and several friends were fishing from a reef in the river where the current is unusually swift. Making a misstep, she fell into the current. One of the friends grasped the fishing rod to which she was still clinging, but the rod became unjointed. A line was then thrown to her but this broke before rescue could be effected and she was carried out of reach.
Mrs. Evans bravely tried to breast the current but seeing that this was an impossibility, she waved farewell to her friends on the shore and sank from sight. The body was picked up three miles below. All possible efforts at resuscitation were made, but in vain.
Funeral services were held by the Presbyterian minister on July 14 and burial was made in Conrad Cemetery at Kalispell, Montana.
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Her mother was Bertha Henrietta Dobrunz.
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Buried next to Lester Johnson.
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