The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-07-28
SAD END OF a HONEYMOON.
A Groom and Bride. with a
Young Friend Drowned
Within View of n Party Of
NHerrv.maIxfug Friends.
From the New York Herald /

From the New York Herald
ELDRED, Pa, July 10, 1876
This community has suffered q
terrible shock by the occurrence
of most melancholy casulty at
Seven Mile Pond, three miles
west of the village.
A mile and q half from the
pond, which is a sheet of water
covering about forty acres, Is the
farmhouse of Thomas Bream. A
year ago his only son, William,
went to Buffalo to work, and on
the I'd of this month he was mar
ried to q Miss Anna Chase, of
that city, beautiful young lady,
only Is years old. He came on
with his bride to spend a Few days,
at the homestead, arriving on the
Fourth. To-day they were to
have returned to Buffalo, and on
Saturday a farewell picnic was
given them at Seven Mile Pond.
The picnic was attended by doz-
en- or two of the neigh3oring
farm people. About six O'Clock
in the evening, preparations hav-
ing been made to go home, Mrs.
Bream, the BRIDE, aud Emma
Bream, her husbands sister, ex-
pressed a wish to be rowed around
the lake, the husband seated them
in the boat, together with a Maggie
Sanders and Friend Vance, a young
engaged couple. The boat was
old and weather-beaten, and some
of the elder people protested
against SO many going out in it.
Vance had been fishing from the
boat during the day, and declared
that it was perfectly safe. Bream
roWed out to the middle of the
pond, where the water was very
deep, and the boat was drifting
idly about, when Vance rose up
suddenly to his feet to point out
to one of the girls some object on
the shore. AS he rose his whole
weight was brought on one of the
boards forming the bottom of the
boat-a fat bottomed ene-and,
as it was wormeaten and weak, it
broke in two, making large open
ing, through which the water
commenced pouring in a large
stream. Young Bream began pull
ing with all his might for the
shore, and Vance shouted for an-
other boat which was somewhere
about the pond. The boat filed
so rapidly that in less than min
ute it was swamped, aud the in
mates were
STRUGGLING FOR LIFE IN THE POND.
a hundred yards from the shore.
All was at once scene of the
widest excitement among those
on land. Mrs. Bream, the mother
of William and Emma, and Mrs.
Sanders, mother of Maggie, were
there, and so frantic were they at
the sight of their children bat
thing against a fearful death that
1t was only by main force that
they could be kept from springing
into the water. Old Mr.. Bream,
and a man named Simon Turner,
ran along the shore to get the
other boat, which wss lying some
distance below. George Bates and
Burt Wade, two powerful young
farmers and good swimmers, jump
ped into the pond and swan out
to the aid of the imperilled party.
Young Bream was a good swim
mer, and grasped his wife when
the boat sank, and would have
reached the shore safely with her,
but she, in her terror, chung to
him so tightly that his movements
were hampered, and he could only
work to keep himself and her
afloat until the arrival of aid.
Vance was also an expert in the
water he thought he could sup
port Miss Bream and Maggie San
ders until he was relieved, and he
went at once to their aid They,
! however, losing all presence oil
mind and crazed with terror
threw their arms about him, and
in spite of his appeals to them
pinned his arms down by his sides
and; placed him at the mercy Of
the water. Consequently,
ALL THREE WENT BELOW THE SUR.
FACE,
and when Bates and Wade arriV
ed on the scene Vance was un
conscious, and the girls nearly so
Bream shouted to the men to take
care of Vance and the girls, as ht
could support himself and wife
until the boat came. Bates seized
, hold of Miss Sanders and broke
her hold on Vance as they were
5 again disappearing from view
Wade tried to disengage Miss
B-eam from Vance, but could not
t and told Bates to swim ashore will
Miss Sanders and he would keel
!. Vance and the other girl afoa'
;, until he came back, or until The
: boat arrived.
e Old Mr.. Bream and TurneI
j found to their dismay that the
boat they had gone after wa:
: half full of water and no oars and
not even a paddle, and was, con
seqneutly, no use IN the emergen
cy. Mr.. Bream thereupon divest
Ell himself of portion of his cloah
ing and started to swim out tt
the aid of the others. He tonnd
however, that he had insufficient
d strength to crrry out his intention
: and he was compelled to return t.
shore.
g Meantime George Bates ha'
: reached land safely with Miss San
;, de2s and handed her over to he
p friends, by whom she was 500
# restored to consciousness. Bate
:. then started back to the assist
n ance of his companion, who wa
calling loudly for help. Whe
-e young Bream learned from tn
n lamentations OF the people o
r shore that the boat could not b
If used he succeeded in quieting tn
% frantic movements of his wife an
, released her hold on him, so tbs
he was enabled to start with he