The San Francisco call., 1899-04-14

nearest house. He returned in a few min
utes with Charles Dali, proprietor of the
Bungalow House. Mr.. Dali is an expert
swimmer, and on his arrival took in the
situation at a glance. He dove down sew
eral times into the springhole at the spot
where the struggling forms were last
seen, but his search was fruitless There
was some hopes that if he could bring the
bodies to the surface a spark of life might
remain in them. He remained in the wa
ter until blue with cold, and finally told
relatives were beyond human aid.
Mrs. Woods still stood on the shore
sh1verlng in her wet clothes and gazing
into the water where her loved ones had
disappeared. 1t had all happened so sud
denly that she could not realize they were
gone from her forever. Kind words of
sympathy and advice to go for her
healths sake and remove her wet clothes
fell on unheedfng ears and she was final
ly almost dragged from the spot.
Quite party had collected by this
time, Mounted Policemen Leonard and
Finely were early on the scene and did
what little could be done for the living.
The Morgue was also notified, and the
graphing for the bodies begun.
A couple of lawn rakeS were procured .
poles were lashed to the ends of them
and G. c. Kimball William Bucket and
John Wiebe began dragging the water
from the shore. After half-hours work
Mr.. Gardner brought out the body of
Miss Williams. 1t was already cold and
stiff, and all efforts to restore animation
proved futile. 1t was not until nearly
two hours later that Messrs. Bucket and
Wiebe recovered the body of little Clara
and laid it beside her aunt on the smooth
sand which a few hours before Lad
lured her on to her death.
Catherine Williams was % years of age
and daughter of c. b. Williams, of the
firm of Williams & Woods general con-
tractors. Clara was about 10 years of
the same firm. She was an unusually
bright child and rather large for her
The accident was not witnessed by any
one aside from the family party, and they
are all so unnerved that they scarcely
know how it happened Each has
slightly different version, but all agree
was first to fall in and that his sister and
aunt followed him.
c. D. Hyland, who has had charge of
the grounds for many years, said There
have been so many accidents out here
that / think people ought to keep away.
The bottom of the lake is very treacher-
Gus, and aside from that. the mere knowl-
edge of the fact that the water is used
for drinking purposes should keep people
out of it. So sure as hunter happens to
kill duck he will plunge into the water
after it where it looks shallow, and if he
is not an expert swimmer the chances are
that he will never come back. [ can re-
call dozens of such cases in my time as
keeper of the lake There are signs posted
up everywhere warning people to keep out
of the water, but they pay no attention to
them.
Mrs. Woods acknowledged to me that
she had noticed the signs but could not
deny her children the pleasure of a few
minutes wading. These grounds were
closed to the public for number of years
but it was almost impossible to keep them
out. as it is an ideal spot for a picnic and
wild flowers of all kinds abound. Add-
tional signs warning all to keep out of
the water were put up and the grounds
thrown open to the public and this is the
result There are two mounted keepers
here all the time, but the stretch of