Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1903-08-07
Two Sizes SO Cents and $780,
For Sale by Sharrar & Muholand, Alma, Mich

it the boat filed, was capsized and the
whole party were struggling in the
water.
Mr.. Pike appears TO have been the
only one who retained complete pres
ence OF nina and kept his nerve. lie
could swim but very little, but be
managed TO keep above water most OF
the time. He tried TO assist Mrs.
viii Deboit, who was nearest him,
toward the overturned boat and mean
while called Justify for help. But help
was slow TO come. or the hundred or
more people along the shore none
seemed at first TO realize the terrible
tragedy which was being enacted be-
fore their eyes, When they did see
that someone was really In danger,
they seemed paralyzed by fear. No
one nearby had presence OF mind TO
Jump into a boat and go TO the rescue
1t was left for young man named
Worthy Noble. who was some distance
away, TO first heed the call for help.
He Sprang into boat, seized a single
oar and made the utmost exertion 10
reach the fatal spot. He was quickly
followed by another young man named
Duff Houdan, in another boat.
Before their arrival, however, Nc
Donald, who could swim, had secured
footing in the more shallow water
and Mr.. Pike had passed the little
Sabin girl to him, and now had hold
Of his wife. Pike and Noble succeeded
in getting Mrs. Pike, now in an un-
conscious state, into Mobiles boat
Pike then started TO get his little
girl, who had been sitting i'm the bow
OF the overturned boat, some distance
from her father, but in going toward
the spot he saw before him Mrs.
Brumfiel, apparently going down for
the last time, and succeeded in get
ting her into Mobiles boat. BY this
time little Lura had sunk from sight
and he was unable, though he went
down to the bottom repeatedly, TO
find her.
Meanwhile YOudan and others had
rescued Mrs. Will Debolt and her
child. And these were all who were
saved. The other three sank never TO
rise until loving hands lifted them
from their watery graves and for two
n oil eli
and the most strenuous efforts could
do was done to resuscitate them.
1t was nearly a half hour before
Miss Myrtle Debolt was found and
soon after the body Of little Lura was
discovered. Nearly an hour and
half elapsed before Ethel Debolt IS
body was recovered through the in
genuity OF young Youdan, who, when
all else had failed, got an iron hay
rake by which the body was at once
located
Under the direction of Drs. Smith,
Franklin and Monroe, OF Crystal, and
DR.. Sweet OF East Jordan, who was
present, nothing was left undone
which medical science could suggest,
but all in vain. The remains OF little
Lura were carried tenderly TO the
Barber cottage, where Judge Seaver |
and his wife and daughters and many
others left nothing undone TO assist
in the necessary arrangements and |
assuage the grief Of the stricken par.
ents whose only child had been called |
away.
An undertaken was summonsed from |
Ithaca by telephone and the remains. !
accompanied by the grief stricken |
parents, were brought home, where
they arrived about o'clock Saturday
morning.
In order TO give time for the arrival
OF many friends expected from dis
lance, the funeral was postponed until
Tuesday afternoon, at 2:3O. After a
brief prayer at the house the funeral
cortage moved TO the Methodist
chuich, where Rev. j. z. Cook, the
pastor, conducted a most appropriate
exercise.