Arizona republican., 1902-06-30
DROWNING OF HOWARD LONG
Caught in a Tide Rip and Carried Out
 to Sea.

The Les Angeles papers which came the drowning of Howard Long at Long Beach last Friday. Some of them print a portrait of the drowned boy. Last Friday morning he and his brother. Edward Lcng, were invited by Mrs Garnett and daughter Of Phoenix and Mrs. Hawley to go with them to the beach. Beth the Long brothers were bathing, though they were not near each ether when the fatal accident oc- cured. Howard Long and a man by the name Of E. F.. Hayslip and another by the name of J. J. Cccke were to- gether when they were caught by a tide rip and swept seaward. Lcng and Hayslip were struggling with the cur rent, but Cooke allowed himself to be carried with it and gradually worked his way to the outer end Of the pleas ure pier. He was picked up at the edge of the breakers by a beat, but neither of his companions could be saved. The body of Hayslip was later cast up on the sand. but that of Long had rot been recovered on Friday night.
 Shortly before that Howard Long had
  & Co. fer position. At the same in- stant that word reached his home of his drowning a message was received from the office of the company offer ing him the position for which he had applied. The condition of the sea at the time Of the accident was unusual for that time Of the year. south easter which had blown the day before 11sl T h
 ffercely. The strength of the pillows had been experienced by boatmen who had had trouble in landing passengers at the float by the pleasure pier. Here and there along the beach a tide rip could be seen like a river flowing out through a comparatively still sea- The line of each breaker was interrupted where it passed the rip and there was formed a whirlpool. Long and his companions had not been in the water long when they saw they were being carried seaward, and then the strug- gle fer life intellectual for two of them was begun.
 Howard Long was twenty-one years old and had spent the most of his time at Los Angeles or elsewhere on the coast for more than a year His par ents and sister left Phoenix about two weeks ago for Los Angeles tc make that city their home.
 Dr. R. M. DodsWorth, who returned yesterday morning from the coast. was at Long Beach q [ the time of the ac- cident and saw the drowning of Long and Hyslop. He was fishing not more 1 than quarter of a mile away The young men were net far from the shCre and the water was not more than waist deep. The breakers were heavy, though. and had been SO for i three days. There was q terrific un- dertow which had scared most of the bathers out of the water. When the i breaker struck them Cooke was dra ggcd back along with the others and kept c1 going with the water. He called to his companions to go along and it seemed that Long started and was then frightened by another huge wave and turned. He was the first to disappear. Hysiop was rolled over and over end attempts were made tC. reach him with ropes, but the current kept sweeping him out of the way of those who were trying to rescue him. He was in the surf for an hour and was i 1ife,ess when he was brought to the shore.
 An experienced bather, Dr. Dods- worth said, might not have drowned. 1 He would not have allowed himself to receive the full force of the breaker or he would not have tried to battle against it. It is possible, though, that i both victims were disabled at the be- ginning They mi aght have been driven down into the sd tad when they were