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Show THREE YOUNG MEN SACRIFICE I THEIR LIVES FOR COMPANIONS 1 1 Philadelphia, May 31. Sacrificing Jtliclr lives to save four companions, two of tliom girls, throe young men, norie of tliem could swim, leaped Into j the Delawuro river from a sinking ij I row boat lato yesterday hnd wero I dron noil. TIib story of their sacrlllco J was tohl today lly survivors. Tho dead nro John Mouthech, Hnymond Tlnnoy, I Mid John Murphy. ji Tlnnoy and Sarah (lerman, n mom- l brr of tlio party," wero engaged to bo l mnriied. The craft containing tho I seven joiing people began rapidly hi- IIiik w Itli water when hundreds of M yardH from shore, from a looso hoard Ik on tho bottom. Despite the efforts to HI ball the host with their caps, It soon becamo evident that unless tho load was lightened tho boat would sink be-foro be-foro shore could be reached. None of tho party could swim, but all the men volunteered that the others might bo saved. Tlnnoy was tho first to spring over tho boats side, quickly followed by Mouchech and Murphy. Tho boat capsized, however, after the three men had disappeared In tho water and tho four other occupants wero thrown Into tho river. John Ne-lll Ne-lll and George German, ihe other malo members of tho party, clung to tho overturned craft and grasping thb girls as they sank for the second time, hold them until a motorboat raced to tho rescue. |