The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-06-26
NINE DROWNED IN
THE MISSISSIPPI
GOVERNMENT ENGINEERS MEET
DEATH NEAR NEW MADRID.
TWO BOYS DROWN AT NIAGARA
Four Young People go Down to Wat
cry Graves Near Parkville, No.
When Motor Boat In Which
They Are Capsizes.

New Madrid, Mo-, June 2S.-Nine
members of a party of fourteen Unit
ed States engineers ad other govern.
ment employees were drowned near
New Madrid, Mo, late Sunday even.
ZIG, when the United States survey
boat Beaver, which the party was
aboard. was capsized in storm.
Those drowned are: C. s. William
son, chief engineer, of Mason, O.;
u. Nj. Mcconnell, of .Iemphis; Cap
tain Lamb, pilot; A. u. Coston, en-.
lgineer; Harry Sherrell, mate, Cotton
wood. Tenn; Phil Wray, of Jackson.
Tenn; - Freeman, deck hand;
two rodmen, names not known. Only
one of the bodies has been recovered
The boat sank near Hotcnkiss light
in Snakey bend. and as soon as re-
port of the accident was received
here word was sent to Memphis and
the government steamer Chiska hur-
were saved
The Beaver. a small craft of the
canal boat type, left Memphis last
Friday for Snakey bend, in the Mis-
sissippi river, about seven miles
north of New Madrid, where a survey
was to be made preliminary to the
construction of revetments. The boat
had proceeded to a point about four
miles above this city and was near
midstream when the storm broke,
with but little warning.
Before the craft could be made
ready to face the wind it was over
turned and sank. The men drowned
presumably were caught in the wreck
age and drawn down with the boat.
WiIiamson's body foated to the sur
face within one hour.
Snakey bend is in remote sec
ton and further details are not avail
able.
Two Drown at Niagara.
Niagara Falls, n. Y, June %
Donald Roscoe, 10 years old. and HUI
bert Moore, years old, both of Mag,
ara Falls, went to their deaths In
boat late Sunday afternoon in the
Whirlpool rapids. while hundreds OF
men watched, helpless, from the
shore. The boys were playing in a
fat bottomed scow half mile above
the rapids, when the rope holding
the boat broke and they were carried
out into the stream and went down
the river. .. -..,. ..... .i.-
Up to the time the boat reached
midstream it made little progress.
After it passed the bridges the cur
rent carried it rapidly towards the
rapids. The bridge men did not see
the boat until it was close at hand.
then they called fire headquarters and
two companies of tiremen were sent
to save the lads If possible.
Hundreds swarmed the river banks
in a vain effort to rescue the boys.
The boys. realizing their fate, stood
up as the boat neared the edge of the
roaring whirlpool and shook hands in
farewell A second later they were
engulfed by great wave in the.rap-
ids. The boat shot out of sight. One
struggling in the rushing waters and
then disappeared Neither body has
been recovered.
Motor Boat Party Drowned.
Kansas City, June 23.-kenneth
Lewis, aged % years, Loren Welker,
IS years old, and May Secrist, all OF
Kansas City, Kansas, and a young
woman. name unknown, were thrown
into the Missouri river near ParkVlle,
Mo, eight miles northwest of here.
when a motorboat in which the four
young people were riding was capsiz-
ed late yesterday evening. They
we're swept down the stream and it
is believed all were drowned.
Police from this city recovered the
empty boat a few hours after the &C
cident, and it was identified as be-
longing to Lewis. None of the bodies
have been recovered.