Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-08-12
KNORLEINE DROWNED
Supposed to Have Struck His Head Against a
Stone in Diving.
The Accident Happened at the Bath
ing Beach just Before
Noon Today.

Clinton knorleine, a white boy, between
fourteen and fifteen years of age, was
wn,d at the bathing beach about IL 30
O'Clock this morning. His mother, Mary
E. Knorleine a widow, lives at ID North
Capitol street. This morning Clinton went
to the beach with 4 companion about his
own age for a swim. They had been In
the water an hour or so engaged in various
pranks, when young Knorleine's friend
missed him. He looked round among the
crowd of bathers but could not find his
little companion, so he went to the office
and told the boy IN charge Of the bathing
suits that Clinton had disappeared. A
search was instituted, but without results.
The beach was then cleared all the bathers
being called into tn Shore and Officer Sam
Brown and swimmer named Walcott with
ctfers, began systematic search of the
pool near the shore
Wascott found the body about twenty-five
or tnirty feet from shore, a little north of
the runway and springboard The water a +
tlat point was quite beyond the depth OF
the men, and the body was only found by
diving and feeling along the bottom. AS
soon as he felt the boy, who was then living
on the bottom, Walcott handed the body to
o,'hcer Brown, who swan to The shore with
it.
Meanwhile word had been sent to the
Emergency Hospital, and in few moments
an ambulance was on the scene, and work
vas begun on the unconscious form in the
nope OF restoring life. The body was placed
on the shore. and some difficulty was ex-
perienc I'd to keep back the crowd that num-
tered several hundred.
All known means for restoring vitality
were used. but without avail and after
some time the effort was given up and the
body was taken to the Emergency Hos
pital before being sent to the home
large bl mp was found on the head, and
although no one saw young Knorleine dive
the last time it is thought that he must
have plunged headlong into the water
from one of the lower steps of the rum
way. Although the tide was then high
there was but little water at the point
where he was last seen standing and he
must have dived into less than three feet
of water. He probably struck his head
upon stone or else drove 1t forcibly into
the hard bottom of the pool. 1t was sur
missed that this rendered him unconscious
and that he did not rise again to the sur
face.
OF course, there is no way of ascertain
ing just how long he was under the water.
but, from the condition of. the body IL was
InouSht by the surgeons at the hospital that
ne had been submerged at least twenty-five
minutes before the body was brought to the
surface. A note on the hospital blotter is
to the effect that when the ambulance ar
rived at the beach those in charge Informed
the physicians that the boy had been under
only hfteen minutes The physicians were
OF the opinion that had this been the case
they could have restored life
Young knorleines companion said that
CLINTON could not swim WELL but was never
theless a venturesome boy in the water.
persisting in doing things that more ex.
perienced swimmers warned him against.
ne was trying to learn tc dive and would
not take advice, and probably thought tina
he could safely plunge from the lower part
OF the runway into the shallow water with
cut fear of drowning
Mrs. knorleine was notified this after
noon Of her sons DEATH and the BODY was
held at the Emergency until she should give
directions as to its disposal