Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-22
ANOTHER DEATH AT YALE.

Three Men Fall Through The Ice
 MT. Brenner of the Yale TheOlogi.
 cal school Drovvned-Mr. LoomiM
 Narrowly EscaPes-The Particulars
 of the Accident.
 The gloom attending the death of Student Reade has not yet been cleared and the mys- tery surrounding it is still topic of conver- sation and thought in student life. Now there comes another death more sudden even than the other taking from the Yale seminary and from the same class to which MT. Reade
 belonged, another of it's brightest and best loved members. Edgar Irving Brenner was l member of the middle class in the Yale Theological school, graduate ot Pennsyl- ! vania college, the valedictorian of the class of 1885, and living at Smithburg, Md.
 Yesterday he went skating with some of his
 classmates and seminary friends on Lake 1 Whitney. The ice being considered safe; he ] in company with classmate, O. W. Loomis.
 left the others and went up the lake. When near tine second bridge Mir. Brenner, who was | in the lead broke through the ice. MT Loomis took off his overcoat and in passing
 it so that Brenner could reach it himself fell | in. Both were clinging to the edge of | the ice when Q gentleman riding
 along the road took his driving lines and threw an end to MT. Loomis; it broke, but
 the second trial proved efectual. and Loomis was drawn out, being able to reach | just the end of the line. Meanwhile he | talked with Brenner who said that he was | cold and that it was so deep that he could not reach bottom. When Loomis reached | shore, and his rescuers had time to look | about for Brenner, he was gone out of sight. Loomis was taken up the bank to the house of MT. Moulton, near the church, and attend ed to. There his friends found him soon after unable to art1culate. He spelled out the name of his lost companion after time, and gave the circumstances. Two students from another department of the college were skating near them, one of whom also fell in, but was promptly helped out by hls compan- ion, who carried 8 stick with him. The friends of the theological students were stopped from proceeding up the lake by a lady who called them to the bank and in- formed them of the fate of their comrades. They took off their skates and went in search of them, finding Loomis at the house as stated above. Mir. Williams of the middle class immediately informed Professors Day and Harris, and the proper authorities were notified. MT. Lynch of the senior class tele- graphed to MT. Hoover, friend of Mr. Bren- ner's family in Smithsburg, who broke the news to the family.
 President Dawson of the Water company when notified of the accident at once pro cured the services of Bath House Keeper Timothy Crowley, who has all the parapher nalia necessary for the recovery of dead bodies. Twenty minutes after Mir. Crowley began work the body was recovered. It was removed to Undertaken Blair's. President Dawson desires to caution all skaters against venturing so near the center and most dan gerous parts of the lake.
 MT. Brenner was a tall, slightly built young man twenty one years of age, light complexion, wearing full beard and glasses He was considered one of the most bril- liant men in his class. His poems have ap peared ill several of the current newspapers and magazines. He boarded at Mrs. Holla- days on Elm street, rooming at 98 West ri- vinity. At the table and everywhere he was a charming companion, always cheerful and looking forward with high hopes. The loss of him will be keenly felt by his classmates and by the seminary, for he was one whom everyone respected and loved.
 Last evening MT. Loomis was able to be about, and he told the particulars of the ac cident as they are stated above. Dr. Sam ford attended him. The middle class of the seminary will hold meeting this morning and take appropriate action upon the death of their friend and classmate.