Clinton Wilson
Obituaries
Eagle Valley Enterprise page 1 - June 4, 1919
THREE YEAR-OLD CHILD DROWNED IN EAGLE RIVER
Missing from Home in Minturn Since Last Saturday, Thorough Search Has failed to Find the Body
Mr. and Mrs. W.L. Wilson of Minturn, are greatly bereaved over the mysterious loss of their three-year-old son, Clinton, who disappeared from home last Saturday evening and of whom no trace has been found up to the tie of the Enterprise going to press Thursday evening.
The little fellow was last seen playing near the Eagle river which flows past the rear of the Wilson home in Minturn, and from this it is surmised that he fell into the stream and was drowned. It was about six o'clock in the evening when the child was missed, and when a search of the home and neighboring premises failed to reveal him, his mother gave the alarm and a general search for the baby was instituted. The drowning theory was at once advanced, and the Eagle river was dragged for five mile below the town that night without finding the body.
A search of the river has been kept up all week, with men posted on bridges and other prominent places along the stream keeping a constant lookout for a floating body. If the child did fall in the stream, the body has evidently been caught on some object and held there so that it does not come to the surface. An investigation has dispelled the kidnapping theory, as there has been no one about the Wilson home or the town who could possibly commit such an act but who has been accounted for, and the child had not been out of his sight long enough to have wandered far into the surrounding hills, so that the child was swallowed up in the swift waters of the Eagle river and drowned is almost sure.
The bereaved parents are grief stricken and almost unconsolable over their loss, the uncertainty of his death adding to their anxiety, while the possibility that he may not be lost, but wandering and lost or may have been stolen, makes their nervous strain terrible to bear. Mr. Wilson is an engineer on the D.&R.G. railroad, working out of Minturn, and one of the most popular employees at Minturn. The parents are well known over the county and their many friends sympathize with them in their grief.
