Multnomah County OR Archives Obituaries.....Dennis, David Elmer September 15, 1904
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Morning Oregonian September 16,1904
Young Boy Is Drowned
David Elmer Dennis Sinks Before Rescuers Arrive
While riding the waves of the steamer Hoo Hoo in a rowboat in company with a 
boy companion,David Elmer Dennis,aged 12 years,son of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen 
Dennis,was accidentally drowned at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon.His body was 
recovered an hour and a half later and removed to Finley's Undertaking Parlors.
The boy,company with Walter Peddicord,aged 13,started to row across teh 
river,opposite University Park,where Dennis lived with his parents at 1697 
Dana street. When halfway across the stream the steamer Hoo Hoo passed.The two 
boys were not near the steamer,but later they came within reach of the 
waves,when they lost control of the boat,which was capsized,throwing both boys 
into the water.Both rose to the surface immeiately and started to swim.The 
Peddicord boy swam to the other side of the river safely,but young Dennis was 
not so strong a swimmer and went down. Henry Stout,a fisherman,who was on the 
bank of the stream,and G.L.Hoyt,the light tender,saw the accident,and put out 
in a boat to the boy's rescue. They reached his side as he was going down for 
the last time.Stout dived from the boat,but missed the boy ,who did not again 
come to the surface.In company with C.S.Palmer,who was working in the 
vicinty,the men dragged the river and succeeded in locating the body and 
bringing it to the surface.
Coroner Finley was notifed,and after an investigation stated that it was a 
plain case of accidental death and no inquest would be necessary.The steamer 
Hoo Hoo had gone so far ahead before the waves reached the boat containing the 
boys that assistance from the steamer was impossible.
Stephen Davis,the father of the dead boy,runs a grocery on Washington 
street,between Tenth and Eleventh streets.

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