The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-07-26
BOY
BROWNS At
PINE BEACH
South Chicago Man Is Also
A Victim Of Drowning
There

Lake Michigan, between the Iinc
Station beach and Miller beach east
and west of Gary. claimed two more
lives by drowning early last night.
The dead are:
RICHARD SWINSON. Is years DID,
Hammond High school senior
ana son of Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh
Swinson OF Griffith, Ind.
]. D. WITT. 33 years old, s134
Brangdon Avenue. South Chicago,
single. employed by the Great
Lakes Dredge and Dock Co.
Young Swinson was in swimming at
the Pine Station beach. east OF Gary.
with his mother and brother. From a
platform one hundred feet from shore
he dove into the water and Il is be-
lieved that ne struck bottom with con-
siderable force, rendering him un-
conscious, as he did not appear at the
surface again until his body was
found.
Three 10 hve minutes later a number
OF boys, year old Walter Luck OF
Clark station. 10 year old Robert Hub
bard. 4124 Grapevine avenue. Indiana
Harbor, and L. Ellis. 6326 Ashland
avenue. Chicago. located the body.
Undertaken Floyd Williams who was
called to the scene with the pulmotor
worked over the lad for nearly two
hours and although he was able to Sc
cure natural breathing was unable 10
get any heart action. At $3.50 he an
nounced 10 the grief-stricken mother
that 1t would be useless to work on
him any longer. 1t is believed that
his death was caused from an in
ternal hemohrage AMI not from
drowning. The body was brought TO
the Williams morgue in Gary and will
be taken to the home at Griffith today.
Richard was the eldest son OF Mr..
and Mrs. Hume Swinson of Griffith.
Ind. In company with his mother and
brothers. Mrs III. V. Jones and Miss
Sanders OF Olney, Ill, a house guest OF
the Swinsons. they had driven over
70 the beach only a half hour before
the accident occurred.
Richard was born at West Salem,
Ill. Is years ago. He was in his
senior year at the Hammond high
school and has been a resident Of
Griffith for 3 years. The remains
viii be taken back to their former
home at Parkersburg. Ill. for burial
several brothers and sisters having
preceded him in death.
Short services will be held at the
] HQHit " S0DSS0dJ afternoon ABOUT
o'clock and the cortege leaving short
1 ~ for Harvey Ill. where IL will take
4 the train.
The body will be brought home this
evening from the Williams undertake
ing parlors. Besides his father ana
mother, three brothers are left to
mourn him.
Witt was drowned about the same
foflnurinc no
excursion party which left South Chi
cago early in the afternoon. The
party included, George Hoefer. 912s
Brangdon ave; Peter Left. 9134 Brang-
don ave; Mrs. Bell. 9I26 Brangdon
avenue; Miss Edna Warner. 81 Com
mercial avenue and Witt.
Reaching the Gary harbor they de-
cded 10 take swim. according 70
Hoefer and left and took the women
| to shore and left them about 100 yards $
from the harbor. witt with his two
male companions took the motor boat
and started out into tho lake.
When about 400 feet from shore.
Witt. who expert swimmer
dove from the boat but according to
Hoefer and Left had no sooner hit the
water when he started to cry for help
Witt was some distance away and at
that moment the motor in the boat
stalled and before they got it started
again Witt had gone down for the
third time. Hoefer also a good swim
mer. stated that he jumped out of the
boat and swan to where Witt had gone
down, but after dozen or more at
! tempts to locate him was unable to
find any trace of the body 1t was
not recovered until late hour last
night. The body was removed to VIII
liam's morgue.
News of the drowning reached the
thousands of bathers at Miller beach
several miles away about eight O'Clock
and hundreds at the new beach focked
to the old beach half mile away,
hearing that man had been drowned
there Witt is survived by a father
and mother and two brothers in South
Chicago.