Omaha daily bee., 1921-04-18
LakeClaillls
First Victim
Season
Boat Containing Three Youth.
full Fishermen Capsizes,
Throwing Occupants
Into Carter Lake.
Two HaveNarrowEscape

Carter Lake claimed the first
drowning victim of the season Sum
day afternoon. Frank Stangle, IS.
$3.50 North Thirty eighth street,
son of Mathew Stangle, baker for
Peterson & Pegau, was killed when
a boat in which he was fishing cap
sized.
Two other youths, Mylo Mitchell,
IS, 1887 North Thirty-eighth street.
and Kester Bishop, 10, 1929 Boyd
street, narrowly escaped a similar
fate. Fishermen in nearby boat
rescued them.
The three boys, none OF them
able to swim, were fishing just east
of the Lakeview ice house. The
boat tipped and shipped water. lnf
their frantic efforts to relieve the
situation the boat capsized and
threw the three youths into the cold
water of the lake.
Body Is Recovered.
The accident occurred about 1850
and crews of rescuers worked until
6 before the body Of young Stangle
was recovered.
Roy Heilg, 2203 North Twentieth
street, and Bert Elan,. 22ll North
Twentieth street, who were near
the boys, fishing from another boat,
witnessed the accident. Before they
could reach the scene young Stangle
had gone down three times. Heilig
and Elan managed to grab the other
two boys as they were going down
for the second time.
Tries to Walk Home.
Elan took the two boys to the
home of Mrs. M. Steck. Thirteenth
and Laird streets, where they were
given medical aid. While Mrs. Steck
was attending to young Kitchell, the
Bishop boy skipped out and starte'l
TO walk home. Cold and feeling
weak, he stopped at a house half
way home and asked to get warm.
The people in the house bundled him
up and took him to his home in an
automobile. A taxi was called and
young Kitchell was taken home.
Elan then ran to the Office of Fred
Moran, watchman for the Lakcvicw
Ice house, who called police and
summoned aid from the Larsen boat
house. With graphing hooks and
nets, rescuers from the boat houss
and members OF the Dietz club house
began to search for the BODY of III,
boy.
Father Watches Rescuers.
Mathew 'Stangle, father Of the little,
victim, was called by police and for
hours stood on the lake shore watch-
ing rescuers search for his boy.
Il told him not to go to the lake"
said Mrs. Stangle, who is prostrated
after being notified of the drowning
Rudolph Kirchner, IS, 3s2S North
Thirty-eighth street, boyhood pal Of
young Stangle, saw the drowning
youth 60 down from shore.
1T all happened so suddenly, I
didn't know what to d." he said.
Rudolph ran to the home OF Mrs.
Steck and summoned help.
Young Bishop said the three boys
were in the stern Of the leaky boat
and Stangle was padding.
"The boat tipped and water began
to come in," he said, still nervous
from his experience at his home.
Frank rushed to the bow and water
poured into big open space in the
bottom and the boat sank"
Youth Left Behind.
Had not young Bishop gone to the
lake with the boys, little Stanley
kirchner, 9, might have been
drowned, he says.
Stanley wanted to get into the
boat, Bishop said, "but I beat him to
it" None of the youths could swim.
In the rescue squads working in
boats and on the shore were Ear!
Kendall, Nineteenth and Burdette
streets, deputy game warden; Robert
Brown, 1908 Grace street; L. E.
Peterson and Paul Anderson of the
Larsen boat house; Fred Moran
Harry Appelton, Bert Elan, Roy
Heilig and several police officers.