The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-10-04
-FOUR DROWN N
SOUND
Men Meet Death in Trying
to Make Landing at
Fish Traps.

Meadowdale, Oct. An the heavy
wind and rain storm of last night
J. Everett Graham, % years of old,
OF Ballard; Ben Larson, %, of Ev-
erett; Paul Burklund, Is, of Mead
owdale, and Peter Haram, Is, of
Ballard, were drowned in Puget
Sound or pounded to death against
the ricks and logs along the shore
Tried to Make Landing.
Grahams owns several fish traps
between Mukilteo and Meadowdale.
Last night, with Haram, he tried to
make a landing, with his launch, at
his trap near Pilot Point When the
launch tied up at the trap, Larson
and BurkIund went out in row
boat to bring them ashore None
of the four was again seen alive.
Body After Body Found.
The extent of the tragedy came
10 light little by little today, as one
body after another was found. Pas
sengers on a Great Northern passen
ger train saw the first from the car
windows. They reported it at Mead
owdals and a telegraph operator
from Mosher, with a deputy coroner
from Everett, set out to find it. 1t
proved to be Haram.
Grasps Dead Mans Arm.
Evidence of the second death ap-
peared when the motor boat Marion
tried, about 9 O'Clock, to tie up at
the fish trap. At the tying pile the
man at the bow reached into the wa
ter for the rope. Instead of grasp
ing a rope his fingers closed about
the arm of a dead man. That was
Larson His foot was caught in
snare and his arm was wrapped
about with the tying rope. He had
sought safety there, not daring to
swim in the wild waves.
Brother Finds Brothers Body.
The deputy coroner and the tele-
graph operator, when notified, left
the station to get this body. AS they
were going along the track they
kept an eye on the shore. Under
a clump of bushes they saw two men
pulling something from the water.
This was the body of Burklunj, and
one of the men was Burklund's hor-
rified brother.
Graham Not Found
No trace has been found of the
body of Graham, the owner of the
traps, although there is no question
as to his having met his death. He
is known to have been an expert
swimmer, but the Sound is surround
ed with rocks and logs, and even il
he did succeed in getting toward
s!:Gce without sinking, he would
have been dashed to death or stun
ned beyond ability to help himself.
Heard Faint Cries.
The missing links in the tragedy
were supplied by Joe Nyemoto, the
Japanese cook in the shack at the
trap. He says in the night he
thought he heard some one calling
for help. but it was very faint and
he was not sure Hearing the call
again he rose up and then cat
made some noise and he came to
the conclusion that it was the cat
that had disturbed him. In the
morning he got up and got break
fast for the men who never return
ed.
How 1t Happeneds
1t appears that when Burklund
ana Larson went out to bring the
other two men ashore they all sue
coded in getting into the row boat,
but the heavy sea smashed the tow
boat against the row boat, capsizing
il and throwing its occupants into
the water. Larson, it seems, made
his way to the pile and succeeded in
tying himself to it. fearing to try
for the shore in the high sea. He
must have slipped down, as when
they found him, he was entirely I'M
der the water, dying apparently
from exhaustion and cold.
Burklund, who was the only one
that could not swim, and Haram, it
appears, managed to get hold of the
boat, as they were found in the same
spot, not over ten yards apart, with
the boat turned upside down, al
though Haram was found in the
morning and Burklund was washed
ashore with the evening tide.