CHILD SMOTHERED UNDER SAND PILE
SALT LAKE, Oct. 10--Caught under a caving bank of sand, John Hampton Rackley, 4 year old son of John Louis and Faura Fay Rackley, was smothered to death shortly after noon yesterday on th home premises at Eighth West and Twenty-first South streets. His baby brother escaped death by being less deeply buried in the sand, and the frantically swift rescue work of the mother of the children.
The older boy was not uncovered until Mrs. Rackley and Mr. and Mrs. George Hall, neighbors, had dug for an hour, exhausting themselves in vain effort to be in time to save his life.
Regarding the sandbank as a peril to the little fellows, their father had recently leveled it, but later teams hauled sand from the place and the rain softened the escarpment thus left until it gave while the children were at play under it.
Source: The Ogden Standard, 10 October, 1918
Note: the spelling of young John's mother's name is taken directly from the paper. It's almost certainly a typo on the paper's part, but I try to transcribe faithfully.
SALT LAKE, Oct. 10--Caught under a caving bank of sand, John Hampton Rackley, 4 year old son of John Louis and Faura Fay Rackley, was smothered to death shortly after noon yesterday on th home premises at Eighth West and Twenty-first South streets. His baby brother escaped death by being less deeply buried in the sand, and the frantically swift rescue work of the mother of the children.
The older boy was not uncovered until Mrs. Rackley and Mr. and Mrs. George Hall, neighbors, had dug for an hour, exhausting themselves in vain effort to be in time to save his life.
Regarding the sandbank as a peril to the little fellows, their father had recently leveled it, but later teams hauled sand from the place and the rain softened the escarpment thus left until it gave while the children were at play under it.
Source: The Ogden Standard, 10 October, 1918
Note: the spelling of young John's mother's name is taken directly from the paper. It's almost certainly a typo on the paper's part, but I try to transcribe faithfully.
CHILD SMOTHERED UNDER SAND PILE
SALT LAKE, Oct. 10--Caught under a caving bank of sand, John Hampton Rackley, 4 year old son of John Louis and Faura Fay Rackley, was smothered to death shortly after noon yesterday on th home premises at Eighth West and Twenty-first South streets. His baby brother escaped death by being less deeply buried in the sand, and the frantically swift rescue work of the mother of the children.
The older boy was not uncovered until Mrs. Rackley and Mr. and Mrs. George Hall, neighbors, had dug for an hour, exhausting themselves in vain effort to be in time to save his life.
Regarding the sandbank as a peril to the little fellows, their father had recently leveled it, but later teams hauled sand from the place and the rain softened the escarpment thus left until it gave while the children were at play under it.
Source: The Ogden Standard, 10 October, 1918
Note: the spelling of young John's mother's name is taken directly from the paper. It's almost certainly a typo on the paper's part, but I try to transcribe faithfully.
SALT LAKE, Oct. 10--Caught under a caving bank of sand, John Hampton Rackley, 4 year old son of John Louis and Faura Fay Rackley, was smothered to death shortly after noon yesterday on th home premises at Eighth West and Twenty-first South streets. His baby brother escaped death by being less deeply buried in the sand, and the frantically swift rescue work of the mother of the children.
The older boy was not uncovered until Mrs. Rackley and Mr. and Mrs. George Hall, neighbors, had dug for an hour, exhausting themselves in vain effort to be in time to save his life.
Regarding the sandbank as a peril to the little fellows, their father had recently leveled it, but later teams hauled sand from the place and the rain softened the escarpment thus left until it gave while the children were at play under it.
Source: The Ogden Standard, 10 October, 1918
Note: the spelling of young John's mother's name is taken directly from the paper. It's almost certainly a typo on the paper's part, but I try to transcribe faithfully.
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