Show y EIGHT IGHT DROWNED IN PICNIC BOAT TRIP ACCIDENT Seven Children Take Fatal Ride Eide on Lake Bake Lake Swan Boat ST ST. THOMAS Ont ant July UP UPA A Sunday school picnic which was to have closed with a a moonlight moonlight moon moon- light boat ride ended in tragedy here 1 last st night wh m the boat capsized capsized capsized cap cap- cap cap- sized on Lake Pinafore Seven children the oldest 8 years old and one one adult were drowned The party was a joint picnic of f. f the St St. Johns John's Sunday schools of ot StThomas St St. Thomas and St St. L Lukes Luke's kes ke's Sunday sch school ol of Yarm Yarmouth uth Heights There were twenty children and anda a few adults on on board when the boat upset The bodies bodies' recovered are those of Mrs Thomas Watts Jean Robinson Robinson Robinson Rob Rob- inson 8 Edith May Robinson 8 8 Frances Francis 8 Murray Barnes 6 6 Bodies believed to be still in t the e water are Roland Smith 6 Jackie Sutherland rland 6 Jean Murray 7 At the time the boat overturned the banks of the little lake were lined with people and dozens of ot otmen men men plunged Into the water to rescue rescue res res- cue the children Several hundred automobiles s were lined on the bank of the lake with glaring searchlights thrown on the water to furnish f light to the Ies rescue ue party Other sisters sister and fathers ran up and down the shore wringing theIr ther hands and crying searching for tor tidings tiding's of their little ones not knowing wing whether they were on the ill III fated b boat at or 01 r not The swan boat was constructed of ot two tuo large row rowboats boats fastened side to side with a flat bottom and high sides and had a large swans swan's neck and nd head at the prow tt t Was vas propelled by y a paddle wheel op operated operated op- op on a bicycle frame |