The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-07-25
A Double Drowning.

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young people were suddenly called from
earth, leaving the entire community
plunged in mourning. Mr.. Richard Ly-
man and Miss Bertha Head started out
rowing about half-past seven that evening,
and when about 10 rods southeast of the
end OF the south pier the boat capsized and
both were drowned. The accident was wit
messed by the parents and brother and sister
OF the young lady, by the Light House
Keeper, Mr. L. n DeDiemar, his assistant,
MIR. f. w. Roether, and the lookout from
the Lie Saving Station. The lookout man
dropped into boat instantly with a COM
panlon and rowed out to the scene of the
disaster, but saw no yestige of either of the
occupants The crew from the Life Saving
Station manned the surf boat and were out
looking for the bodies within five minutes
after the disaster. They towed Mr.. Ly-
mans boat in, but could find no trace of
either of the victims of the accident. The
way the accident happened was as follows
Mr.. Lyman and Miss Head came rowing
along between the piers, with Miss Head
rowing the stroke oar and Mr.. Lyman the
bow oar. About one hundred and fifty feet
inside the piers they were stopped by Mr..
DeDiemar, who advised them not to 60 out
In such sea. Richard replied that they
had been out in rougher water than that
was. He had just finished his new boat
house on the beach in the afternoon and
was taking his boat down to it, so they fell
to with their oars and rounded the south
pier, rowing together III good form. The
wind was northeast by east and the waves
were nearly parallel with the shore. They
h eaded the boat southeast quartering on
the waves and rowed that way for perhaps
thirty rods, surrounding the waves in good
shape, when large wave passing under the
boat, buried Mr.. I4yman's left oar so deeply
in the water that he could not extricate it
readily. Miss Head did not notice the in
cident and continued rowing. The boat
rapidly fell off from her course and into the
trough of the waves. The next wave was
monster ard with the leverage of the fouled
oar 1t took bat second to capsize the boat.
Those who saw it say it turned over several
times. When the wave passed, the boat
was seen right side up but full of water and
empty ofhuman life. The whole thing occur
red in ten seconds and nothing more was
seen of the two who had been in the boat. It
is supposed that neither one rose to the sur
face after they went down. Every effort
was made to rescue them, but it was for
Torn hope from the first.
The beach was patrolled all that night as
far south as the State Line The body of
Miss Head was discovered the next morning
about six o'clock by Mr.. n r. Allen, about
mile south of Kemper Hall. 1t was ia
ken from the water and taken to the under
takers, where it was prepared for interment.
THE REMAINS
of Miss Head were buried from s. Mat
thew's church Monday at 10 a. IN. Rev.
II. Thompson reao the impressive service
of the Episcopal church and Miss Lily kun-
ais and Mr.. Gerald Mcdowell assisted the
choir with the music, which was very beau
tiful. Hundreds of roses were scattered
over the coffin and chancel The church
was filled from chancel rail to door with
sympathetic friends and relatives Messrs.
Fred Engel, Henry Marsh, N. r. Allen, Jr.,
Harry Robinson, Hiram Bradley and James
Kehlor were pail bearers, The deep SYM
pathy of the community with the afflicted
family was manifested in the large number
that followed the remains to their last rest
ing place.
THE SEARCH
for the body of Richard Lyman was contin-
ued from the first without break until it was
found. All day Saturday the beach was
lined with patrollers. Saturday night the
search was continued by an organized pa
troll which covered the ground from the
boat houses to below the State Line. Sun
day the search was continued, both on the
beach and in boats The bottom of the
lake was dragged as thoroughly as could be
done with the implements at hand. Sun
day night, Monday, Monday night, Tuesday
and Tuesday night the patrol of the beach
was continued. Wednesday morning at
o'clock, Mr.. Chef Leonard, night Waterman
at the Mattress factory, saw the body float
ing in the water close to the shore He
called Thos. Smith, and together they car
ried it up on the shore and sent for the un-
dertaker. The body was not bruised or
disfgured in any degree, showing that it
had remained in one place. 1t had proba-
bly, become fastened to some of the old
wrecks in the water and had remained there
until the rising waves Of Wednesday morn
Ing loosened it. The ground had been
gone over quite carefully several times by
boats with drags and it is rather strange 1t
was not fould It was a great relief to
every one in the city when the body was