Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-13
THREE LOST LIVES
WERE OUT FISHING AND BOAT
TURNED OVER.
Bodies Recovered by the Authorities
Investigation by the
Coroner.

Three men lost their lives yesterday after
noon by the overturning of a rowboat just
off Analostan Island. They were Alexander
Chisholm, 1905 street southwest: Newt
Bunch. 934 c street southwest, and Dennis
Bunch, 3o4 street southwest
Yesterday morning. shortly after IL
o'clock the three men hired boat from
Hollis & Cumberland 14th and Water
streets. They were on a fishing trip and in
excellent spirits. According to Mr.. Cumber-
land, they were all sober and had no liquor
aboard.
This all he knew of the matter until
the police started an inquiry as to the own
ership of the boat, which was found, bottom
up. off Analostan Island yesterday after
noon by two colored boys, Franklin n. Hill
yer and George w. Cook.
The finding of the overturned rowboat was
followed by the discovery of the body OF
Alec Chisholm. floating fishing rod mark
ed the spot where the accident occurred.
Hillyer, the younger of the boys. seeing
the rod made for it. In attempting to pull
in the line he drew the dead body of CHS
holm to the surface.
Thoroughly scared. he dropped the rod,
and with the overturned boat in tow. made
for Reynolds boat house. just across tho
river.
Here he told the story of finding the body
hooked to the fishing line, and with young
Reynolds, son of the keeper of the boat
house, returned to the scene. Graphing
irons were put overheard. and after little
work the body of Chisholm was dragged
to the surface. 1t was taken to the boat
house at the foot of 34th street and the
police notified.
Ordered Investigation.
The coroner sent for the body and or
dered an investigation. No one near the
scene of the accident knew anything of the
boat and all the boat houses in the vicinity
were visited for the purpose of Identifying
it. The police were successful later. They
found it belonged to Hollis &, Cumberland,
who keep boat house at 14th and Water
street. Mr.. Cumberland stated that
shortly after II o'clock yesterday morning
and Dennis Bunch, came to the boat house
and hired a boat. They all had fishing
rods and explained that they were going
fishing. None of the men had been drink
ing, as far as he could tell, and they had
no intoxicants with them.
The water is quite deep where the acct
dent occurred, and it is the belief of the
boatmen in the neighborhood that the boat
capsiZed while the men were changing
places, and in the struggle to save each
other all We're drowned.
While there were evidences of more than
one drowning. it not until the homes
of those who hired the boat had been Wis
tied that 1t confirmed. 1t was found
the men had not returned. and Immediately
the police boat Vigilant. with rowboats and
graphing irons, visited the scene.
AT II O'Clock one of the rowboats attached
70 the Vigilant caught the body of Dennis
E. Bunch near the mouth of Little river,
a short distance above the site of the new
highway bridge. Bunch a carpenter
by trade and leaves a wife and infant child.
The body of his brother was not recovered
up to the time The Star went to press.
Coroner hewitt viewed the bodies Of
Chisholm and Bunch this afternoon and
gave verdict of accidental drowning.