Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-05
MAINE DROWNINGS
thirty two Persons Thus Meet Death
During July Month.

| drowning accidents in Maine. An a.
palling record of 80 cases in vario,.
parts of the State, has been made
nearly double the number ever before
recorded in q single month.
| OF these. eight were young children
| playing near the water. The deadly
canoe cost five lives, and the still, moro
deadly sailboat seven. Six lives were
lost while in bathing. Six accidents
We're to summer visitors.
| In all, IS persons We're rescued from,
| peril, or saved themselves by swim
| ming, i'm connection with the fatalities
One BOY lost his life. as did the friend
he was trying to rescue. The hero Of
the month was the young Norridse-
lost his own life. \ brief account of
the fatalities Of the month follows:
| July byron Scdgley, 19-year-o,d
son of John Sedgley of South Gardi-
ntr, was washed overheard and LOST
from fishing schooner while crossing
Nerrymeetins bay in squall.
July 3-tieorg- Grove, 80, n fishor-
| man on the smack Cosmopolitan ,ybi1.
attempting to board his vessel nj Nam
set, missed his balance and went down
to his death.
| July 3-The 9-year-old son of Cant
| Augustus Foss of Hancock. while
playing on a bridge over a small
| stream near his home fell in and ,v,s
drowned.
| July 3-Joscph Roby of Nashua N
| II. was drowned by the upsetting of q
canoe on Silver lake, Katahdin iron
works. A companion was rescued.
July 4-Samuel Eaton, 80, and a COM
| panion, We're crossing to an island near
| StoninStOn, when the boat filed and
swamped. Eaton attempted to swim
ashore but sank, either from exhaustion
or cramps. His companion was saved
| by clinging to the boat.
| july "A canoe with Ralph Humnh-
| rev of Dedham, Mass, and four conf
| panions, all Webb academy New York
| city, students. on a canoe trip up the
| kenncbec, WAS upset by the cross-rips
| ut Richmond. Humphrey was drowned
the others being able to reach the
| shore.
| July Nathan SHAPIRO was drowned
| While swimming near Merrymeetng
park, Brunswick, presumably from
cramps, as he was a good swimmer.
July S-A young man named Pratt,
about IS years old, with Il school party
| from Washington, d. c., was drowned
while. swimming in the lake at Center
Lowell.
July 9-After rescung two girls from
drowning in North pond, SmithfielI,
Phillip Wilder of Norridgewock sank
from exhaustion and WAS drowned. He
was Is years Old.
July 10-Wellington Grady, Is years
old, while bathing at Old Town got be-
y"nd his depth. Joe l.. Donahue, 10
years old, went to his assistance. and
both drowned.
July 1.-THE 11-year-old son of
George w. Hodge, while playing on the
docks at Bangor, fell between the
wharf and vessel and was drowned.
July ia sailboat with a party of
four was capsizeI off Sherman's point.
Camden. Mamie Faiker 90, of Cam
den. and Robert Young. 10. of Waldo
horo. We're drowned. Ernest Pickett of
Camden saved his own life and that of
Fannie Willis Of Rockland by SWIM
ming to a ledge with the young lady.
July 12-The 13-year-old son of Mrs
Prudence Kierstead of MaysviIle, while
playing on bridge. fell into the Aroos-
took river and was drowned.
July 12-The 7-year-old son of Joshua
Ellis of Boston, while fishing from n
wharf at his summer home at Range
ley lake. fell in and was drowned
| July 12-Be,t A. Hannebery, while
crossing the st. Johns river on ferry,
took q pole to fend off some floating
logs. lost his balance, fell in and was
drowned.
l. July 13-Arthur Rideout, %. and Bert
Young, 90. of North Orrington. were
| drowned by the upsetting of a canoe
n the Penobscot river. below Bangor
July 13-The 5-year-old son of Mrs.
Alon%o Trot of PASSPORT. fell from a
Wharf while playing and was drowned.
july 1.-The 7-year-old son of Lewis
| I2aker, while playing on the logs in
Saltwater river at OrOno, fell in and
was drowned.
July 1G-Wiliam P. Kennedy of
Brooklyn. n. Y. was drowned while
bathing at Long Island, Portland har-
boz Cramps or heart disease was sup
po9d to be the cause.
July 11-While swimming in the An
droscoggin river at Lewiston, with %
or moro others, Ray Fl. Smith. an ex-
pert swimmer and athlete, suddenly
sank and was drowned. He was 10 years
old.
July 17-Martin Howard. 35 years old,
a lOhgshoreman, fell out of boat in
Portland harbOr and was drowned.
July 20-Capt. Frank Haskell of South
BrOotsville, was drowned at Deer ISLE
falling overheard while placing moor
ing fer a yacht. 1t was supposed that
he became entangled in the mOOring
line. He was 40 years old.
July 20-R,chard II. Wood of Bangor,
was Drowned by the upsettng of boat
in Ambejejis rapids above Millinocket.
He was 10 years old.
July 20-Harry NJ. Bartlett Of RoX-
bury, Mass was drowned while bath |
ing in Moose pond. near Brighton. Sup
posed % have been taken with cramp.
July 24-The 4-year-Old son of John
A. H4mpden Of Portland. fell into a
IN, of water and was drowned