Peoples, John

29 years old, a jack hauler residing at Fourth and Alta Streets, Picher Oklahoma, was downed in Spring River at the Devil's Promenade Oklahoma yesterday afternoon shortly after 4. A searching party, headed by Grover H. Todd, a local undertaker, worked until 10 last night to recover the body, but efforts were futile and the search was abandoned until daylight this morning. Peoples was a member of a party of six that had gone to the Devil's Promenade after completing their days' work. The party had been in swimming about twenty minutes. While his companions were dressing. Peoples started to swim across the river and when about fifteen feet from the bank he was seen to turn around and partially sink in the water as though overcome by a cramp or strong undercurrent. Peoples has a wife, and three small children. The searching party resumed its work about daylight this morning. Large charges of dynamite were exploded in the river in the hopes of causing the body to come to the surface. All efforts to recover the body had been unsuccessful up to noon today. Peoples was drowned a short distance south of the bridge at the end of the river and at about the same place where other persons have met death in a similar manner.