The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-30
LAKE CLAIMS GIRL
 AS LATEST VICTIM Amanda Hilton Was Acciden-
 tally Drowned Yesterday TRAGEDY ENDED OUTING
Persons on Shore 1t Is Said Made no Attempt to Rescue Overturned Passenqers--Dead Girl
 From Virginia.

What came as an inexpressibly sad se- quel to pleasant Sunday outing in East Lake park was the accidental drowning of 16-year-old Amanda Hilton. It occur red shortly after noon
 Besides the girl drowned there were present in the boat her sister, Miss Mag gie Hilton, and young man, Miller Davis The trio had rowed out to a point a little to the northwest of the Casino theatre and about forty feet from the shore when the accident occurred It seems that Amanda Hilton, who had been handling the oars, was attempting to exchange seats with her sister when the boat tipped and was overturned bear ing the victim down under 1t. Miss Mag ge succeeded in catching hold of another boat and clinging to it until help ar rived. Davis claims that he could not swim, but as the water was only about four and one-half feet deep at this point he succeeded in wading to the shore His cries for assistance brought Fred Monte baro, the boating manager, and his negro call man to the scene. They arrived in about three minutes. Not knowing that the young lady was confined under the boat they first turned their attention to Miss Maggie, whom they carried to the bank
 Both Miss Maggie and Davis seemed to have been unable to speak eoherently at the time, and persons standing on the shore did not tell the rescuers the plight of the second young lady. It was only when they saw her skirt protruding from under the capsized boat that they un- derstood the real tragedy Owing to tue vacuum formed by the suction of the water it took some moments to right the boat By this time Amanda Hilton had been in the water several minutes.
 She was carried to the shore and a hurry call was sent to Dr. Barrett of East Lake, In the interval before his coming Mr Montebaro and his assistant expelled tho water from. the girls lungs and endeav- ored to resusticate her by artificial means When the physician arrived every re- course known to medical science was ex- hausted in the vain effort to revive the girl. She had been in the water too long. and it was found that life was extinct.
 
 Statement of Witnesses.
 Mrs. D. M. Paxton. who witnessed the catastrophe from her porch, makes the following statement:
 '1 saw the overturned boat and the people struggling in the water. The young man Davis rushed to the bank, then rushed back into the water calling for haIN h, bank at the time and they did not seem to pay any attention"
 Mir Montebaros statement is as fol- lows
 Some one called for me and I rushed out; got near the theatre when l saw the young man wading towards the shore from the boat. Did not know any one was under the boat until l saw the dress, then we righted the boat and got the young lady on shore
 He further states that what was one of the most distressing features of the trag- edy was the fact that none of the men who were eye witnesses attempted to res- cue the overturned passengers.
 Came From Virginia. The drowned girl and her sister lived with their step-father, Mr. Pentico a miner, at Ridgeland near Mineral Springs. They had but recently come to Alabama from Virginia.
 The occurrence cast gloom over the pleasure resort, and the management states that 1t is one of the most de- plorable incidents in the history of East Lake, The company keeps regular life- saving crew, and it is quite probable that the girl might have been resuseitated If MT. Montebaro had known that she was under the boat when he first arrived. The blame would seem to lie with the neonle of the shore who saw all and did