The morning times., 1895-08-19

There were three drowning cases in this
city yesterday and Acting Coronef Glaze
brock was kept busy investigating the
fatalities The victims were Roby $.
Priddy, seventeen years of age, whose
father is clerk in the Pension Office
Arthur Morris, colored, eighteen years OF
age and George f. Brown, colored canal
boaman. fortyfive years old.
Roby s. Priddy, aged seventeen, the son
of " T. Priddy, clerk in the Pension
office, was drowned in the Potomac River,
just above GEORGETOWN, about $50 O'Clock
yesterday afternoon.
Young Priddy, with Charles Paxton and
George Cook. boy companions, went to the
Columbia Athletic Club boathouse about
3 O'Clock and thence proceeded to College
Rock, on tse river shore just above George
town
There, three other lads, George McLane,
Frank and Cl- renee Howell, were met and
all, with the exception of Priddy, went in
bathing. The latter could not swim and
wisely staid cut There was a party of
fifteen or twenty AT the place and they
were enjoying themselves in the water.
HE WANTED TO BE TAUGHT
As his companions were about to come
out Priddy called to them and said tha he
was going in bathing, and asked them if
they would teach him to swim. After un-
dress ing he went into the water. George
McLane and Frank Howell supported him,
and the three swan out some distance
from the shore As they turned around
80 blckPrddy through some means or other
got a large mouthlul OF water. 1t stran-
gled hIm, ana after making a choking
sound he let go his grasp ON his compan-
luus and sank
While going down he grasped McLane
and tie two went under together Priddy
/ released his hold, and McLane succeeded
4 in reaching the shore. Young Priddy
never came 10 the surfaces
Whcnhis companions recognized what had
happened Charles Paxton ran 10 the Aque.
duct Bridge and notified Detective Frank
Burroughs. Robert Golden, who lives oil
Water street. was communicated with,
4 and instructed TO go TO the scene. Mr.
Golden lost a son by drowning some time
ago, ana since that time has kept a life.
/ boat grapnels, and resuscitating apparatus
/ on hand. Detective Burroughs, Robert
/ Golden and Craven King got III the boat
and rowcd quickly TO the scene.
The body was found at the very spot al
which the boy sank. where the water is
many feet deep. 1t was not until about
! Z O'Clock that the dragging was success.
/ full and all the tine before and after the
/ boat arrived men we rediving after the body
CARRIED 40 HIS HOME.
The remains were carried in the patro
wagon TO the Seventh precinct station
where the parents and Col. W. H Crook
! the executive clerk OF the White House
| who is friend of the family, were waiting
! They had received the sad news by tele
! phone Deputy Coroner GlaZebrook CAV,
/ his consent TO have the body moved, and il
was carried TO Undertaken Wright's es
/ Enlistment, on Tenth street, whence il
I VIII be taken this morning to the home OF
! the boys parents, No. Z IL street north
west
The dead boy accepted position about
seven weeks ago with the firm OF Easton s
i Rupp, on Eleventh street He was q
/ good boy, and a great favorite i'll the
neIghboThood OF his home. His com
/ pauIens,were continually calling last nigh
TO offer lheIr sympathies TO the grief
stricken parents, and the boys who wer,
with the unfortunate lad are almost heart
/ broken The place where the accident tool
/ place IS about 100 yards from the Three
Sisters. where many drownings have takeI
! place.
STRA NGIFD IN THE WATER