The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-06
CAPE MAY POINT DANGERS.
The Very Narrow Escape from Drowning,
One in the Presidents Family.

The Very Narrow Escape from Drowning,
One in the Presidents Family.
CAPE MAY POINT, Aug. 5.-There came
near being tragedy in the Presidents fam
lily yesterday. Mrs. Mary S. Dimmick,
niece of Mrs. Harrison, had narrow es-
cape from being carried out to sea and
drowned. An eighth of a mile below the
Presidents cottage float is anchored
about one hundred and fifty feet from the
shore for the use of bathers. AT low tide
it almost rests upon the sands: at hightide
the water beneath it is considerably over
ones head. Mrs Dimmick and j. S. Nc
Kee, the presidents son-in2law, joined the
crowd of bathers at the float shortly be-
fore o'clock After sporting in the wa
ter for sometime Mrs. Dimmick got out on
the float to rest. She remained there for
some time and then started to join Mr.. Nc
Kee who was between the raft and shore.
She is an excellent swimmer and plunging
boldly into the water struck out for the
land. The tide was running in when she
| swan out to the raft but it had turned and
| begun running out while she was on the raft
| Instead of going toward the land, she was,
despite her energetic strokes, carried back
of the raft toward the cgs.. ocean. Among
the bathers was J.-W. Buchanan, of phila-
delphia, who occupied the cottage adioin-
| ing the PresisenBs..J He saw Mrs. Dim
mick's danger at once. He is an excellent
swimmer, and without alarming her swan
to her side. He took her hand and his SUI
perior strength enabled him to bring her
safely TO MIR. Mckee, who was unconscious
| of her perilouS position until he saw Mr..
Buchanan bringing her IN.
! Mrs. Dimmick's narrow escape was illus
| trated BY an exciting event that occurred
Immediately afterwards. This point is par
ticularly dangerous whenthe tide runs out.
The water pourS in from the Delaware
river and makes a sweep in the form of an
arc past the raft. Emma McChenney, of
Wilmington, Del, a girl of seventeen,
dived off the raft soon after Mrs Dimmlck
left it. The current had greatly increased
and she was carried rapidly seward. Carl
Krauz was in the water and swan quickly
| to her. She seized him frantically about
the neck and carried his head under the
water so that he was poWerless. Both were
swept farther from the raft and it seemed
as if both would be lost, when A. w. Buck,
a man employed in drug store, dashed
into the water after the drifting pair He
overlook them when Krauz was almost eX-
| hausted. He diSengaged the frightened
girls arm from Krauz and held her in such
| a manner that she could not impede his
OWE movements. He could do little more
than keep afloat. A life guardsman stood
on the beach all this time but did not seem
disposed to even turn into the water. The
crowd finally drove him into the surf with
his cork jacket on but he made no attempt
to rescue the people in the water. The
President and Secretary Blaine saw the
excited crowd and hurried to the beach
They interested themselves in giving in
structons. The President personally dis
patched man to the life saving station q
mile and half up the beach to have surf
boat put out. 1t was not needed, however
Buck was unable to rise when he and his
helpless charge were thrown by big wave
on the sands. He was utterly exhausted
Both General Harrison and Secretary
Blaine praised him for his bravery. He i:
naturally the hero of the hour. Krauz
when relieved of his burden, was able tc
get ashore unaided.