Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-07-26
PARTY REPORTED
lost ON LAKE,; A
SEARCH IS MADE
Water Puts Engine Out OF
Commission and PicniCk-
ers Stay Out All Night at
Hot Springs.

Especial Correspondence to Tile J0urnai)
Hot Springs, n. M, July To-
Hot Springs. yesterday was thrown
into a state of great anxiety and
fear when the party. consisting
of Mr.. and Mrs. C. i. James. DR..
and Mrs. Russell and Allen Meyers,
was reported missing on the lake
and that the lake had been pa
trolled by the large government
boat all night without results.
The party had embarked in a
small motor boat and gone up the
lake Sunday morning for the ride
and TO do some fishing. They went
ashore for dinner about seven
miles above Kettle mountain,
which is a landmark about Is
miles above the dam. While the
party was ashore the wind rose
and the waves ran so high as to
wash over the boat, and the water
4 put the engine out of commission.
Three futile efforts We're made to
get the engine to work, but the
half-hearted response 1t made to
the pilots coaXing were short
lived, and as the wind was strong
and the waves dangerously high,
the party decided to spend the
night ashore and wait for help or
till the wind went down. They ac-
cordingly built signal fire on a
point near the lake but the spin
drift from the waves put it out
and the fire had to be built at
distance from the shore.
AS all the party were without
wraps and in thin garb the expert
ence of marooned sailors would
have been unpleasant had there
not been plenty of wood at hand
to supply the large camp-fire--
which, by the way, was not seen
at all by the searching party.
Search Is Begun.
BY daylight yesterday morning
every available boat on the lake
had Joined in the search and cars
We're leaving Hot Springs at short
intervals to assist. The search was
confined TO the lower half of the
lake, as there is an unfounded SUI
perstition that the upper part of
the lake is beset by myriad dan
eager searchers were patrolling the
shore waters and every little inlet
or bay OF the lower lake the lost
party was sculling down the mid
die of the lake. strictly unobserved
by all watchers, and feeling much
sighted and ignored. They were
not discovered until they were
within less than a half mile of the
Elephant butte, where Mr.. Ware
tied onto their boat and lowed
them into the boat harbor.
The party at no time was in
great danger, but a few minutes
after they landed for the last time
the wind rose and the waves ran
SO high that it would have been a
serious risk to have tried to carry
them in small boat.
The Elephant Butte Boat club
was well represented at the week
~ picnic. Sunday, more than half
or the charter members being on
hand to enjoy the fine catch of
bass that graced the picnic supper
table.
Mr.. Leo F. Smith, president:
Geo. Muntz. secretary, and r.. A.
Howard, treasurer, state the club
ID strictly social and has a spresent
membership of 80, representing
socorro, Hot Springs. Ell Paso and
Hfllsboro. Their effort will be to
assist the Reclamation Service in
protecting the shade trees along
the shore. and the fishing, and
promote fraternity and co-opera-
ton socially among the towns rep.
resented on the clubs roster.