The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-08-23
SAD DROWNING

OF n Young Man and Lady Friend,
While Out Pleasure Riding In a Skin.
P~IrTsBURe, August 20.-Another acct
dent on the river Saturday night put out
two young lives, brought sadness to many
hearts and ca a gloom over the commun-
it y around Penn avenue and Thirteenth
street. About 7 o'clock p. m, Mike Sulli-
van, who boards with Mr.. Kirby, at the
corner of Thirteenth and Pike streets, pro-
| cured a skill at Jordan's bathing boat and
| rowed up the river. AS he was passing the
hoat used by the Junction Railroad Com
pany in transferring cars from this side to
the Allegheny side of the river, and which
was stationed at the foot of Thirteenth
street, he was hailed by Misses Annie FL
wood and Sadie Fahey, acquaintance of
his, who asked him to take them out
skiff riding. He rowed over TO the float,
and the young ladies got into the boat.
AT this moment Edward Call came running
down the float and leaped into the skiff,
upsetting it. Miss Fahey and Call were
swept under the float and drowned. Miss
ElWood chung to the float until she was
pushed up on top of it by Sullivan.
A man living in a shanty boat near by
rowed out to Sullivan's aid and brought
him to the float. Assistance came imme-
diately, and Miss Elwood was found rush
ing up and down the float crying fran
tically for some one to aid those in the
water. She was taken to the house of Mrs.
Rooney, on Thirteenth street, where she
lay in a ritiable condition. She knew no
one, and continually cried for some one to
go to the rescue of her friend. She and the
Fahey girl We're very intimate, and she had
Just come from Allegheny. where she lives
with her aunt, q Mrs. Hughes, on Ohio
street, to visit Miss Fahey.
Miss Fahey was about 90 years of age,
and was a most estimable young lady. She
lived with her parents on Pike street, be-
tween Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets,
her father being employed at Shoenberger's
blast furnace. The family came to this
city from Wheeling about three months
ago, and have the deepest sympathy of all
their neighbors in their affection.
Call, the young man who was drowned,
was about "a years of age and was a puddler
in Shoenbergar's mill. He came from Iron.
ton, o., and has a sister in that place and a
brother-in-law in Birmingham, Ala. lie
boarded with a Mr.. Ruby, at the corner OIL
Pike and Thirteenth streets.
Miss Elwood's father, two brothers and
two sisters live in this city. Her mother
went to Wheeling about a week ago, and
has been sent for, Miss Elwood has been
employed in Armstrong; cork factory.
Sullivan, who escaped drowning, is about
"a years of age, and is a puddler at Zug'a
mill.
The scene at the Fahey home was heart.
rending. While the father and brother
were out assisting in the search for the body
the mother and sister sat in the back room.
weeping in a heartbroken manner for theii
lost daughter and sister. The two sisters
OF Miss Fahey had intended to go rowing
with her and her friend, but changed theil
minds at the last moment.
The bodies have not yet been found, and
1t is feared that the strong current at pres
ent in the river may have carried them fal
down the river. The float under which
they disappeared was 200 feet long by q
feet wide,