The morning news., 1894-02-23
A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE.
A Boat Capsizes Putting Two People
in Great Peril


in Great Peril
Maitland, Fla, Feb. 22.-Late last night
the guests of the Park house were
startled at the appearance of Fred Good
win, Esq, a talented young lawyer of
New York, and a son of Rev. Dr. Good
win of Trinity church, chaplain of the
garrison on Governors Island, New York
harbor. who came in attended by Dr.
Rogers, another guest Of the hotel, in a
rather di lapidated condition, and wearing
a suit of very i'll fitting clothes.
He was instantly surrounded by an ca
ger group of inquiring friends who soon
learned that he had been capsized on
Lake Maitland and narrowly escaped
drowning Although in very nervous
and exhausted state he gave brief but
exciting narrative of his thrilling ex-
perience.
II seems that several parties went out
on the lake during the afternoon, it be-
ing a calm and lovely day. Mr.. Good
win being the escort for Miss Bess Hun
gerford, the lovely and accomplished
daughter of Deacon E. c. Humgerford,
the Chester { Conn., banker, who has
a winter home at the foot of Lake
Maitland Miss Humgerford's boat is a
cypress, round bottomed skif, and easily
overturned. After rowing and fishing
for some time near the middle of the lake,
which is three miles long and quite deep,
at few minutes past O'clock as the
shades of night approached the boat was
headed homeward. In the meantime the
other boat had passed out of sight, and
as Mr.. Goodwin is somewhat of an invalid
Miss Hungerford, who is quite an ath-
lete, insisted upon rowing the boat home
but in changing their seats for this pur-
pose the boat suddenly upset. precipita-
ting the occupants into the water. Miss
Hungerford has many accOmp plishments,
but had never learned to swim, yet with
rare presence of mind she caught hold of
one side of the boat and held fast with an
unyielding grip. Mr.. Goodwin being
a good swimmer caught hold of the boat
on the other side and began to ''pull
for the shore" with all the weak strength
he possessed. A landing was finally made
at Hungerford's Point, and the two un-
fortunates made their way, as best they
could, through the brush to the old Bige-
low place, known now as the Hopwood
orange grove.
They reached the mansion very much
exhausted, but the family were ex.
tremely kind, and at once furnished dry
clothes and needed attentions. Mr.. Good
min was put to bed and thoroughly
rubbed, while runner went to the hotel
for DR.. Rogers. Some two hours later
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home, much to the relief of their
anxious and excited friends But
for the fact that Miss Hunger
ford is an exceptionally brave and
sensible girl, Maitland would to-day
be mourning over an event equally as sad
and terrible as that of the professor at
Cornell University and Miss Mary
Yerger, who were drowned on the lake at
Ithica, N, Y, some months ago.
By Miss Hungerford's heroic efforts to
save herself Mr.. Goodwin was left free to
get the upturned boat to shore in safety,
despite the fact of his own nervous pros
tration. Had he attempted to rescue his
companion in a helpless condition, as
would have been the case with an ordi-
nary young lady, both would have been
drowned. Happily, however, two fami-
lies and hosts of friends to-day rejoice
over a most remarkable escape from a
watery grave.