The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-13
5 BOYS AND GIRLS DROWNED
Vip nINE FOR FROLIC AFTER
,0vuFNCEWENT REHElRSAL.

I've NWstss WIN Ntlfee = ouples W. hAcn'
0.rurned In vain Pond Eloys IN one
, Hoat nad Rl.en 20 ENehaRge seats
~ Onr Near "a Hear cries fsr Relp.
W. r,EAHt Ia May r.. Sax girl,
,f.a. ruy-. member. 10 the graduatinl
.rt rr unlor Glasses at the Huntingtou
NI- Ursn Srhool. fifteen miles from here
v.r drowned this afternoon in a mil
roH r,a- The shoot -Four other hoy,
.ar. sd rn reach shore aud save them
..r-
Dol -. druuncd we're all between !,
AMI wears old and had been busy during
m, morning preparing Tor the Eradua
urr .-r.I~ss.
Tra ulpiI. came 10 the school from
mic. trnund and carried lunches After
,..r lad nsrn eaten at noon party
ns .ds- one-. Xix girls and siN boys,
,-rar-ad going for a row on the old mill
md They embarked in two hoat- about
..1ra Fifteen minutes later eight
Of n.m were dead
r. lead are.
n,nSrurrp. aged u OF Town Line
.,#r,f kooNs. aged n. at Harvey
VI
..r Hu>HAW. aged ". ~ Town Line
.... u,yt>roFr. arrd H. Of Natsrton.
k,.H. .F, Duop. agrd u, Of Watrrtou.
.,r. IUpNrSoN. ag-d H. of ,ToWn
~
rs,.r N,>>y. aged -, Of HuuliugIon
vH.
rn r.r,a> a-~d u. OF Huntington
n q TRANCE chance no one saw the
'a-y emHarSIng % Witnessed the &C
lH-uI ms vas due ~ the fact that
me u.iI pond Is some liItle distance from
-hcrI that tlv- old paper mill there
A. in1.rCd and that a fringe Of trees
..t- ~ ght Of the water from the road
Irr fgrm WORKER, In the fields above
'fa i1r. and the people Of the little town
v-rs si timer
If. fous survivors, George nod>on
1sn Noii'sl lay Moons and Harold
i-I 'elI o., infused stories 1hey and the
,rfir- had ogtcn been out on tho mill
-rud 70 b. not believed 10 ~ dangerous
i-r though deep Il = placid and il i easy
g. thr1w -tone from shore 10 ~hore
Thry sent down io the water in couples.
each by With the girl II his prrierenCr
a. 'he -ide " the dam they cot two small
-avboats. and three hoys and three girls
,-0vded into each Mons 81 III other
-upil- accompanied them. and they had
V1t told tho others wher' they were "a
mg ippsren'ly no one gave anv atten.
i'm 70 their departure.
There was murh irolicking and laughter
a. the boats pushed ~ eide by side
There was some splashing II water with
The Oars. and sons Used their b ands 10
throw Water ~ the others. The boats
lrifted n n middle ~ the p0nd several
wards apart.
IA one u the hosts one ~ the hov, got
70 70 change nv 4eat Who u wa- the
-urvivaua DO not remembsr They have
an idea thAt psrhaps two or three Of the
toys stood up AZ the same time The
boat rocked. the girls shrieksd. the boys
rocked the boat a little more. Il dipped
soms water and the girls. thoroughly
alarmed. spFanR up The neat instant
the boat overturned and all siK we're in
tho water
Ire 0ther boat. only few yards away.
reached the siH struggling m the water
sith haf q d0aon strokes Of the oars
those n tbe wafer seizsd the sides % the
toat and tried 20 scramble In. Their
SeiRbf pulled the boat beneath the water
Tho four Survivors say that then there
vas ov1rwhclming confusion. some
rrk tranhed them. ard they seized some
ne girls Al che boys could swim
Cd al apparently tried to save some Of
'.. others The girls chung to the hoys
hcrtysT they could SEIZE them. some
around tbs reCa, some around the body
no Of the survivor. who broke away
ter being ragged down. saw q group
four all clinging together
fach Of tho boys Who escaped tells ~
eng dragged down by the girls o. other
.1vs and fighting 20 Get away and each
r-aohed the shore after a desperate strug-
ID" Apparently there were no towards;
'nr survivors saved themselves only wben
wts impossible 10 save Othcrs. They
rearrch the saore 20 exhausted that IL
a. -one time before they had strength
o. Ir8g themselves 10 TIE road and shout
'ar u"lp. ny the time teachers. the other
rs tho farmers and the town folk
.strf-i the scene Il was too late. There
a- not . ripple on the water. Late this
a''"rnoon tho bodies were recovered
Yearly every victim Was clasped in a
cath embrace about some other one.
'0hght the whole countryside n In
'r.ru.ng. for nearly gsery resident was
ra.st~i - a. Aast one Of the victims
k10a-' Minnick. one Of the drowned
rv' vas the particular hero Of the
A-iun In the confusion hs iirst swan |
shore and then seeing the girls were in |
'r' water h. struch cut for ths middle
Pho pond again and was drowned while |
src-br0ring 70 save the Rirls