Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1919-07-11

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ko Joined in the search and before mid.
night a score or more of boats were
dragging graphing hooks in the viciu-
ity. Wright Caswell, Lawyer Stickney
Percy Whitney, William Waterhouse
and Others put in an all night vigil
and sent hurry order to Salisbury
where Blacksmith Peterson made a
dozen large graphing hooks to help in
the work. At three o'clock in the morn
ing the body was almost recovered
but lost again just before being landed
in the boat, and thereafter the search
was of no avail although kept up all
the next day
An expert diver, with deepwater suit
and air-pumping apparatus was sent
for and the outfit arrived from Burling-
ton on the noon train. 1t was deliver
ed at the Zelenko camp and from there
towed out on two of the fine new RATS
at the camp, by Mr.. Waterhouse' S
launch. Anchorage was made at the
supposed point of the drowning, and
Charlie Fabricco, the diver, went down
to the lake bottom. These diving oper-
ations brought large crowd of onlook-
ers on shore and in boats, but after the
hrst time down the diver found the
mud so soft, with his 437 pounds of
weight, he sank over his head in the
bed, and could not move except to be
pulled out. He tried twice again with
line from row boat tugging to keep
him out of the mud, but could do
nothing this way, and after the third
time down he declared that a blast
was the only means left to resort to.
Mr.. Stickney telephoned to Fish and
Game Commissioner Leavens for the
necessary permission to use explosives
in the lake, and a charge was set late
Wednesday evening but even this failed
to bring the body to the surface.
After working nearly all day in the
rain Yesterday, however the searchers
succeeded in getting the location of the
body at point less than 100 feet from
shore where the diver had little diff
Guilty in making its recovery at about
three o'clock yesterday afternoon. 1t
was brought directly to Middlebury,
ana arrangements were announced last
evening for the holding of the funeral
at st. Mary's Roman Catholic Church.
of which Miss Donahue was a member,
at o'clock tomorrow morning. Bur-
ial will be in the Catholic cemetery
here.
At the Middlebury end, the news of
the accident was first received when
Epstein, a former Middlebury High
School pitcher, who is at Camp Zelenko,
in to Felix Liberty's house.
John Heiser, press and linotype op-
orator at the Register Office, who is
boarder at the Liberty's was asked to
take the news to the mother and as
5umed this difficult task. The girls
parents are Mr.. and Mrs. Frank J.
Donahue Of Franklin street.
Miss Donahue, who had seldom tax
IN lake trips without a chaperone, had
-old her mother that she would tele-
phone her by $50 so she would know
was all right. In her fail
Ire to get this message Mrs. Donahue
lad some presentment that something
was wrong, and was Frustrated when
The news was broken to her. The Rev
T. ]. Leonard and DR.. R. W. Prentiss
attended her, and persuaded her
against making the trip to the lake
ate at night, as she felt moved to do
Mr. Donahue, who was in Newport,
w., at the time in connection with his
work as insurance surveyor, hurried
home on the first train and spent much
1f the day at the lake where the search
or the body went on. Miss Gertrude
vas their only daughter, II years old.
heir only other child is a son, about
'ix. Miss Gertrude had planned on
entering Middlebury College in the fall,
having finished her high school course
With high honors.
Ralph Smith, the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. c. P Smith of 81 Court street,
vas heartbroken over the accident.
Though not regarding himself as the
1oung girls sweetheart, they had been
lose friends in school and he had
most affectionate and respectful re-
,ard of her fine qualities. eve didn't
10 thing that was foolish" said he
except that l shouldn't have let Don
ly' take the stern seat. We had care
ully clung to the shore all the way, ex-
ept for that minute that we got out
little way, and just at the minute
hat | was thinking we had better get
n closer to shore, we upset.
cone strange thing is that Duncan
ays when he saw us pass the Zelenko
amp he had a feeling that he had
,etter follow us-but he couldn't very
veil as he was busy managing the boys.
Donny was the pluckiest girl that
yer lived. She was not the least ex-
tied when we found ourselves in the
Tater, but felt sure we could swim
o shore 1t did seem easy when we
gere both fresh but it was further than
re thought. She even joked about our
at first but things got ter
IDLY black with me when we went
own after our exhaustion, and l shall |
ever forget the horror of it."
There are those on the far side OF
he lake-near Meehan's and Moosala-
100 Park-who say they heard the
ries of the drowning girl but accord
lg to Smiths memory neither of them
elled at all for help. They both felt
onident they could make it" and
hen they did go down they were too
tterly exhausted to shout.