Five Children Are Drowned

Nebraska City. Neb., Feb. 3.- Five children, in age ranging from 8 to 15 years, brokst hrough the ice while skating on a pond near the Missouri river on the Iowa side, across from this city, and were drowned. Three boys belonged to the family of G. W. Gibson, one boy to the family of Phoenix Gibson, and one girl to J. Mcllvane. The children failing to reach their homes at the accustomed hour, search was instituted, and their hats found floating on the water of the pond where a small place had been broken through the ice. The bodies were found jDlose together, all having gone down Together. The parents are prominent farmers in this section of Iowa.