The Salt Lake Tribune
Wednesday, June 9, 1948
page 19
COTTONWOOD CREEK CLAIMS
LIFE OF 9-YEAR-OLD GIRL
Union, June 8 - The fast, swirling waters of Little Cottonwood creek swept Virginia Allsop, 9, from the grip of her older sister and carried her downstream to death by drowning Tuesday afternoon.
(photo of Virginia)
Virginia and Lawen Allsop, daughters of John Reuel and Adrean Tait Allsop, Union, fell into the stream Tuesday about 4:50 p.m. while playing along the bank. Lawen tried to pull her sister ashore, but force of the stream, swollen by spring runoff, tore them apart.
Lawen was able to get out of the creek and ran for help.
The body was recovered about half an hour later, nearly a quarter mile downstream by Edwin Milne, 720 South 13th East.
A county fire department resuscitator was applied for 45 minutes before Dr. Harold E. Young, Jr., Midvale, pronounced the girl dead.
Highway patrol and sheriff's officers investigated the mishap and led the search for the body, with P. L. Dow, highway patrol superintendent in charge.
Virginia Allsop was born April 1, 1939, in American Fork, and had just completed the third grade in Union elementary school.
Besides her parents she is survived by two brothers: Leon and Joseph Allsop; four sisters, Lawen, Ruemola, Mary Lue, and Linda Rae Allsop, Union, and a grandmother, Mrs. Louisa Allsop, Salt Lake City.
Wednesday, June 9, 1948
page 19
COTTONWOOD CREEK CLAIMS
LIFE OF 9-YEAR-OLD GIRL
Union, June 8 - The fast, swirling waters of Little Cottonwood creek swept Virginia Allsop, 9, from the grip of her older sister and carried her downstream to death by drowning Tuesday afternoon.
(photo of Virginia)
Virginia and Lawen Allsop, daughters of John Reuel and Adrean Tait Allsop, Union, fell into the stream Tuesday about 4:50 p.m. while playing along the bank. Lawen tried to pull her sister ashore, but force of the stream, swollen by spring runoff, tore them apart.
Lawen was able to get out of the creek and ran for help.
The body was recovered about half an hour later, nearly a quarter mile downstream by Edwin Milne, 720 South 13th East.
A county fire department resuscitator was applied for 45 minutes before Dr. Harold E. Young, Jr., Midvale, pronounced the girl dead.
Highway patrol and sheriff's officers investigated the mishap and led the search for the body, with P. L. Dow, highway patrol superintendent in charge.
Virginia Allsop was born April 1, 1939, in American Fork, and had just completed the third grade in Union elementary school.
Besides her parents she is survived by two brothers: Leon and Joseph Allsop; four sisters, Lawen, Ruemola, Mary Lue, and Linda Rae Allsop, Union, and a grandmother, Mrs. Louisa Allsop, Salt Lake City.
The Salt Lake Tribune
Wednesday, June 9, 1948
page 19
COTTONWOOD CREEK CLAIMS
LIFE OF 9-YEAR-OLD GIRL
Union, June 8 - The fast, swirling waters of Little Cottonwood creek swept Virginia Allsop, 9, from the grip of her older sister and carried her downstream to death by drowning Tuesday afternoon.
(photo of Virginia)
Virginia and Lawen Allsop, daughters of John Reuel and Adrean Tait Allsop, Union, fell into the stream Tuesday about 4:50 p.m. while playing along the bank. Lawen tried to pull her sister ashore, but force of the stream, swollen by spring runoff, tore them apart.
Lawen was able to get out of the creek and ran for help.
The body was recovered about half an hour later, nearly a quarter mile downstream by Edwin Milne, 720 South 13th East.
A county fire department resuscitator was applied for 45 minutes before Dr. Harold E. Young, Jr., Midvale, pronounced the girl dead.
Highway patrol and sheriff's officers investigated the mishap and led the search for the body, with P. L. Dow, highway patrol superintendent in charge.
Virginia Allsop was born April 1, 1939, in American Fork, and had just completed the third grade in Union elementary school.
Besides her parents she is survived by two brothers: Leon and Joseph Allsop; four sisters, Lawen, Ruemola, Mary Lue, and Linda Rae Allsop, Union, and a grandmother, Mrs. Louisa Allsop, Salt Lake City.
Wednesday, June 9, 1948
page 19
COTTONWOOD CREEK CLAIMS
LIFE OF 9-YEAR-OLD GIRL
Union, June 8 - The fast, swirling waters of Little Cottonwood creek swept Virginia Allsop, 9, from the grip of her older sister and carried her downstream to death by drowning Tuesday afternoon.
(photo of Virginia)
Virginia and Lawen Allsop, daughters of John Reuel and Adrean Tait Allsop, Union, fell into the stream Tuesday about 4:50 p.m. while playing along the bank. Lawen tried to pull her sister ashore, but force of the stream, swollen by spring runoff, tore them apart.
Lawen was able to get out of the creek and ran for help.
The body was recovered about half an hour later, nearly a quarter mile downstream by Edwin Milne, 720 South 13th East.
A county fire department resuscitator was applied for 45 minutes before Dr. Harold E. Young, Jr., Midvale, pronounced the girl dead.
Highway patrol and sheriff's officers investigated the mishap and led the search for the body, with P. L. Dow, highway patrol superintendent in charge.
Virginia Allsop was born April 1, 1939, in American Fork, and had just completed the third grade in Union elementary school.
Besides her parents she is survived by two brothers: Leon and Joseph Allsop; four sisters, Lawen, Ruemola, Mary Lue, and Linda Rae Allsop, Union, and a grandmother, Mrs. Louisa Allsop, Salt Lake City.
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