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SUMNER DISASTERS.
Some Of tho Accidents Attending Boat.
ing, Fishing and Bathing.

Some Of tho Accidents Attending Boat
ing, Fishing and Bathing.
Four men were drowned at Alton,
ILL.,, while fishing.
Elias Altman, of Huntington, Ind,
vas drowned while drawing seine.
At Fall Creek, Ind, George Searles
went in bathing, and was never seen
again.
Thomas Carr, of St. Louis, twenty
years of age, was drowned by the cap
sizing of boat.
Sunday rowing cost Charles Drepp, OF
Erie, Pa, his life. He and three COM
panions were capsized.
Doctor John B. Lansing, OF Albany,
N. Y, was drowned in Lake Chasey by
the upsettinR of his boat.
Frank Smith, aged ten, and Henry
Brown, both of Munfordville, KY, lost
their lives by drowning.
Frank Lefarge, aged twelve, of Deca-
tur, ILL.,, and William Henry, of Ro-
chelle, ILL.,, aged ten, died by drowning.
While playing about the mill-race at
Dundas, the three-year-old daughter OF
J. CrossIey fell in and was drowned.
Willie Baumgartner, of Bay City.
Mich, six years of age, while fishing
from the dock fell in and was drowned.
A bank on which Charles Edwards,
aged eleven, was fishing, at Platte City,
Mo-, gave way, and he was drowned.
Sherman Ash, aged fifteen, OF Plain
field, Ind, lost his life by the upsetting
of boat in which he and another boy
were rowing.
While sailing in pleasure boat at
Nineveb, Ohio, Miss Emma Morrow
was seized with a fit, fell overheard and
was drowned.
Annie Mitchell, who went with two
young men to picnic near Raleigh,
N. c., was the only one saved when the
boat capsized.
James Smith, aged four years, of Put
in-Bay, Ohio, was drowned from plat
form at the bathing beach. His body
was recovered.
While fishing from bridge in Buffalo
river, Glyndon, MINI. the seven-year-
old daughter of Willard Brown lost her
life by drowning.
Six boys were boating on the Susque-
hanna river at Harrisburg, Pa, on
Sunday. The boat upset and Wallace
Schomberg was drowned.
Michael and Thomas Shortel, of Buff
falo, aged seven and ten years respec-
lively, went swimming. Michael took
a cramp and was drowned.
John Lynn, twenty-fou years of age,
of South Chicago, while rowing on the
lake, was thrown overheard by the
breaking of an oar.lock, and was
drowned.
Charlie Anderson, of Little River,
CAL, fourteen years of age, while fishing
from the rocks in the harbor. was
washed off by a heavy swell and
drowned.
While standing on the banks of the
Allegheny river, near Olean, a little girl
of seven years fell in. A little fellow of
five pulled her out by the hair of her
head,
While fishing from a skiff in the
Muskingum, H. G. Roush. bis son, and
W. T. Maher were carried over the
dam, put were saved after severe bat
tie for life.
The three-year-old son of M. W.
Griffin, of Battle creek, Mich, while
fishing with pin hook for blocks in
the cistern, lost his balance, fell in and
was drowned.
Two young men named Crocker and
Mcmillan lost their lives at Raleigh,
N. c., trying to save young lady from
drowning. The young lady was saved
by others.
Charles Haford. eighteen years of age,
of Madison, Ind, slipped from a raft,
was carried by the tide under it, where
escape was impossible. The body was
recovered.
John Wilson, seventeen years of age,
of Columbus, Ga, was drowned while
bathing. He got into very deep water,
and, being poor swimmer, became
frightened and sank.
Peter Wilson, of Grand Haven, Mich,
aged eleven years, was hero. He saw
his little brother fall in the Grand river
while fishing, jumped in to save him
and did so, but lost his own life.
1t was only a shallow stream. but
when Henry Mullin threw in his line
to fish when on a picnic, he fell forward
on his face, and was suffocated before as
sistance arrived.
Emma Sheets, aged thirteen, of Ches-
ter, Pa, was so startled by the shrieks
OF the engine whistle at the mill that she
fell from the log on which she was play
ing in Chester creek, and was drowned.
The little son of John Kelly was seized
with cramps while swimming in the
Sacramento river, and was drowned:
Robert N. Storrs, aged nine, slipped
into deep hole and was also drowned.
Albert Love fell from the steamboat
Caliope, near Seattle, W. T., and was
drowned. He lost one OF his brothers
by falling into well, and another
brother was drowned in the Columbia
slough.