The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-06

Dunkinson was learning to swim. He went
to the Pagodn and one OF the life savers
there. C. G. Pond, was teaching him how
to swim Everybody out at the Pagoda
knew Dunkinson.
This morning Dunkinson finished the
early morning report as usual. Then he
went and got his wife and they had cup
of coffee in a down town restaurant and
In company with two young friends, Leon
Weiss and Miss Minnie Weiss, they start
ed for the Pagoda They got on car at
Market and Center streets and We're as
jolly and light hearted as could be.
The four young persons-Dunhinson and
wife and Weiss and his sister--got off at
the entrance to the Pagoda and went to
the pavilion
Give me a light suit, can swim now
said Mr., Dunknson to the young man III
the office. 1t was given to him the
ladies got their bathing suits and the four
prepared for their bath
When Dunkinson and Weiss went down
the steps from the pavilion TO the water the
ladies were still in their rooms at the
other side of the Pagoda
When Dunkineon and Weiss went into
the water this morning they didn't go TO
the regular bathing grounds. but getting
under the ropes they made for the deep
water near the restaurant piling. III any
one was watching them 1t is not known.
There were four or ive women bathing In
the regular bathiug grounds, but Dunkin-
son and Weiss were the only men In the
water.
Suddenly there was a shrek and cries
for help. John Atchison, the manager OF
the Pagoda company, ran out, ana see
| ing Young Weiss struggling In the water
between the restaurant piling ana the
pavilion, he threw rope 10 him, Then
| Life Saver c. G.. Pond hurried into the
stairs Weiss was quite exhausted. AS
soon as he could recover his breath he
/ said his friend was still in the water.
| Pond Immediately went searching for
! Dunkinsun Edward Segassie, who con
duets tho restaurant at the Pngoda, says
that he was lying on cot when the irst
cry for help was uttered. He jumped up
and ran out and looked down into the
water Weiss was struggling, but Dun
| kinson, who was almost directly beneath
where Segassie was standing, seemed TO
| be In no danger. AS soon az Segassle saw
| Weiss rescued he returned to his cot end
! resumed his nap.
] In the meantime someone had seen
Dunkinson disappear beneath the water
When he went down he was under the
4 restaurant and about ten feet from the
eastern end OF It. few feet away was
one of the big pllings recently driven
these for a foundation for the restaurant
| building Dunkinson's body sunk, but one
+ arm remained above the water for short
/ time.
| The life saver. Pond, made all haste ar
! ter leaving Weiss, and launched his boat
with this he searched under the rcstap-
rant and in the waters near by for some
trace of Dunkinson Some men, too, went
into the water and helped search for the
body
/ 1t was fifteen minutes before the body
was found. Then 1t was discovered abou.
twenty-five or thirty feet east OF the east
end OF the restaurant The body had
drifted along the bottom perhaps forty
feet. Pond got the body into the boat
and took It to the pavilion. IT was car
ried upstairs and two doctors--Asbten
and Gammon--were summoned, and doc
tors, life savers and everyone else about
4 at the time worked to resuscltate the man.
! II was OF no avail. He was past help. He
/ was dead.
! strange as 1t may seem. Mrs. Dunkin-
son. who was In the woman's end OF the
bath house, knew nothing OF what had
happened to her husband. No one wanted
to tell her Finally John Atkinson went
to her and told her that an accident had
happened TO Mr.. Dunkinson When she
at last learned the full truth her grief was
pitiful
4 taxing establishment and Coroner Hersh-
berger began taking testimony In the
case. His information is about the same
as that given here.
Dunkinsop's body was embalmed this
afternoon. No arrangements for the ~.
neral will be made until the arrival OF
seine relatives from Dallas.
COTTON MILL DIRECTORS.
At the annual meeting OF the stock
holders OF the Galveston City Cotton
Mills held today, the following board Oh
directors was elected for the ensuing year !,
NJ, Lasker. John Sealy. julius Runge, II
i A. Landes, J. A., Robertson, John Rey'
mershoffer and l.. v. Elder
. The last year was again an unpron,apl'
4 one for the stockholders, as a larg'
. amount of money had TO be expended fol
!. repairs, Improvement and betterment 9
ths machinery. The mill IL now in yer!