Notes for: Howard C. Bodine
From Ronny Bodine:
From: Los Angeles Herald (Los Angeles, Calif.) of 9 Sept 1908.
Little Howard Bodine Meets Awful Fate-All Efforts to Revive Him Are in Vain
Howard Bodine, aged 7 years, son of Morrell J. Bodine, an employe of the People's Gas company, living at 3513 Pomona street, was instantly killed by falling into a 20-foot cesspool in the rear of his home at 6 o'clock last night. The boy with a number of companions, including his two older sisters, Mabel and Ruth, was playing in the yard and the little fellow ran too close to the edge of the cesspool, which had been recently dug and was boarded over. As he stepped near the edge of the pit the bank caved with him and he fell headfirst, striking in that position at the bottom. The two young girls at once gave the alarm and a number of men ran to the place, and by splicing ladders together managed to reach the boy at the bottom. He was carried to the top and Drs Baker and Foster were sent for. In the meantime everything was done possible to revive him, but he showed no signs of life from the time he was brought up from the hole in the ground and when the physicians arrived they pronounced him dead. The body was removed to the undertaking parlors of Paul & Son, where an inquest will be held by the coroner today. The parents of the boy are prostrated with grief, and both are under care of a physician.