The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-05-29
PLEASURE TURNED TO SORROW
Union Picnic to Lake Weir Return
ed as Funeral Cortege

About ) o'clock yesterday after
noon, a message came from Lake
Weir that one OF the ladies who went
on the union picnic had lost her life.
and at six the train drew in, bring
ing in the baggage car the body of
Mrs. w. E. Grubbs, and the coaches
filed with a saddened assem- blage
very different from the merry party
that went out in the morning.
The picnickers divided into three
parties, one stopping at Lake Weir
station, one at Sandy Hook a little
further down, and the third going on
to Eastlake. Mrs. Grubbs was with
the party at Sandy Hook, which like
The others spent a pleasant day.
The fatal accident took place
about o'clock. Word had been
passed that it was time for the party
to prepare to return. Mrs. Grubbs
with number of her young friends
were in boat some hundred yards
out in the lake. She and Miss
Blanche Miller were overheard,
hanging on to the boat As the boat
neared shore, believing themselves in
shallow water. the girls let go, in
tending to wade the rest of the way.
Unfortunately they we're right over
a hole seven or eight feet deep, and
10th went under. Mrs. Grubbs did
not come up again and her compan-
ion, when pulled into the boat, was
too confused for minute to notice
the alarm, a dozen men and boys
were in the water in an instant, but
everyone knows how hard it is to
locate anything under several feet
CO muddy water.
All the men and nearly all the
boys present, swan, waded and CROP
ed in the water as near as they could
tell where the unfortunate girl went
down. The first to find her was
Rev. Bunyan Stephens, who stumbled
over her body. He brought her to
shore, and desperate efforts were
made to resuscitate her, but life was
extinct
She must have made something of
a fight for life down in the muddy
lake, for her body was found in four
feet of water, outside the hole she
had fallen into.
The most determined efforts were
made to bring her back to life, but
she must have been entirely past
rescue when found. Laurie Yonge
mounted his motorcycle and first
went to Lake Weir station after DR.. |
Henry, and not finding him started |
aorthward at faster rate than |
wheels ever went over that road be-
lore. He found DR.. Walters 1T |
North Lake, and he drove his auto |
1t mile 2 minute to the scene Of
he accident DR.. Henry had by this |
lime arrived. but the doct0Ts could |
only tell the dead girls friends that
t was NO use.
Conflicting reports from the lake |
Jet the city wild with anxiety and
many were present at the station
when the, train arrived.
Mrs. Grubbs was formerly Miss
Ienevieve Flanders. Less than q !
year ago she married Mr. W. E.
Irubbs, one of the Dekle Co.'S. COM
Detent young clerks. She was only /
twenty years old
Beside her husband, she leaves her |
'ather, brother and two sisters. She |
was a much-Iiked young lady, and !
The city is, depressed at her untimely |
end.
The funeral will be held this aft
ernoon at O'Clock from tine resi-
1ence in the second ward Rev. Bun
san Stephens will conduct the SER
vice. McIver and MacKay will be Tn
charge, and interment will be made
n Greenwood
The pail bearers will be w. O.
Chambliss, Robert Polly. Frank
Gates, Lester Marsh, A E. Mobley
and Harry Cole.