The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-23
DEATH IN WATER
Four Drown When X. C.. Motor
Boat Capsizes.
Nine Die fin MiSSOuri-TwO i'm
Niagara Rapids.

Kansas City. June 23.-Kenneth
Lewis, aged %, Loren Welker, IS, Cora
Glass, Is. and Mary Secrist, all of Kan
sas City, Kan. were thrown into the
Missouri river near Parkville, Mo.
eight miles northwest of here, when a
motor boat in which they were riding
was capsized. They were swept down
the stream and all were drowned.
Police from this city recovered the
boat a few hours after the accident,
and it was identified as belonging TO
Lewis.
The engine of the boat had gone
dead" and the young men had been
making efforts to start it. While
drifting near the shore in the strong
current of the river about mile be-
low Parkville, the nose of the boat ran
into a half submerged row of pil1ng
near the Quindaro pumping station OF
the Kansas City waterworkS- AS the
boat stopped persons on the river bank
advised the men to put the young Wom-
en- off and allow the1- to make their
way to land. One of the youths, how
ever, jumped out, pushed the boat
back and scrambled in, just as the cur
rent caught the rear of the boat ana
turned it quickly over
Survey Boat in Storm.
New Madrid. Mo-. June 23.-Nine men
were drowned when their survey boat
was capsized in the storm. There were
fourteen in the survey boat Beaver.
They had gone up the river four miles
when the storm overlook them. A sud-
den squall upset the boat and the nine
sank five being saved.
Those lost are:
c. S. WILLIAMS, chief engineer in
charge of surveying party, of Mason.
Body found floating in wreckage at
New Madrid about o'clock The A.
f. & A. NJ. lodge took charge of the
body.
J. w MCCONNELL, a late graduate
Of Cornell university.
CAPTAIN LAMB, pilot.
A. D. COSTON. engineer.
HARRY SHERRELL, mate, of Cot
tonwood Point, Tenn
PHIL WRAY. of Jackson, Tenn,
mate.
MR.. FREEMAN, deck hand.
Two rodmen.
Boys in Niagara Rapids.
Niagara Falls, N. Y, June 23.-Don-
aid Roscoe, 10 years old, and Hubert
Moore, years old, both of Buffalo,
went to their death in a small boat
in the whirlpool rapids, while hundreds
of men watched helpless from the
shore. The boys were playing in fiat
bottom scow, half mile above the
rapids, when the rope holding the boat
broke and they were carried out into
the stream and down the river.
Up to the time the boat reached mid
stream it made little progress. After
it passed the bridges the current car
ried It rapidly towards the rapids. The
bridgemen did not see the boat until
it was close at hand. Then they called
fire headquarters and two companies
of firemen were sent to save the lads
If possible.
Hundreds swarmed to the river banks
in a vain effort to rescue. 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 rapids. The boat |
shot out of sight. One of the boys was |
seen for a moment struggling in the |
rushing waters and then both disap- |
peared. Neither body has been recov- |
cred
Engulfed i'm Steamers Swell.
Winona, Mimi, June 23.-wading far /
out into the Mississippi river in order |
that she might get a better view of the |
throng in a passing excursion steamer,
Clara Piechowsk, aged Is, was en-
quilted by a swell caused by the steam
er and drowned Sunday.