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Show Young Woman Drowns In U'a Lake; Brother Suffers Narro w Escape Ruth Christiansen Cole Meets Death When Boat is Capsized By Waves Body of Victim Is Recovered Three Hours After Craft Capsizes! Local Man and Companion Save Girl's Brother. Eoutfh sens on Utah lake took a heavy toll of lil'o. Sunday Sun-day afternoon, when Mrs. Ruth Christiansen Cole. 20. clauh-ter clauh-ter of Mr. and Mrs. Axel Christiansen. ISO West Third South street, Provo, met death beneath the waves after the speedboat in which she was riding with her brother, Thomas Christiansen, 27, of Salt Lake, had capsized in the angry waters off the mouth of Provo river, near Provona beach. Brother Is Rescued v i"M Christiansen, who was piloting the light craft, was rescued res-cued lrom the water by Mark Oakley of Springville and Bar-more Bar-more Snell of Spanish Fork, who briught him to shore. With the aid of artifieinl respiration respira-tion administered by nr. C. H. Smith, Christiansen soon revived and is expected to recover. He was resting easily at the home of his parents, Monday. Fi ant ic search for the body of Mrs. Cole was instituted at once as the fist group of workers was augmented aug-mented by a posse armed with draglines and grappling hooks under un-der the direction of Martin J. atrebel. i It was not until nearly three hours later, just before 8 o'clock ' that their efforts were finally re-I re-I R-arded when one of the hooka .'aught part of the young woman's clothing and her body was recovered. recov-ered. f'uhnotor Is Used Fir,? Chief lieed F.osharti who was waiting at the shore with the pul motor, worked for nearly an, hour in a vain attempt to restore the yparli of life which was apparently appar-ently extinct. The spot whore the body of Mrs. Cole v.a-i finally recovered was not jver ten feet from the place where the bf)n1 went under wi1h its human cat go. The water at this point was jhout right fet.i deep, although less than 40 y;i:ds away the wiiU'r was shallow enough to permit of wail-,ing wail-,ing to safely. Tlie grim tragedy occurred about 5 o'clock as Christian .;en and his sister weie coming back from a inort trip out beyond the mouth of the river. The laUe, which had been jomparati veiy quie! and placid throughout the day, was becoming noticeably rougher as a stiff breeze whipped up pood-sized waves later in the afternoon, It, is piesuni"d thnt as Christiansen Christian-sen veci ed the hunt towards the river's month on his return trip, the. light craft heuded into a large wavp, upsetting (he bout and throwing throw-ing both occt,''-nts into the water a little more than half a mile 'from the mouth of t he river and south of the sandbar. Attempt I'"ailn Making a de.'-pf rate effort to bring his sister to shore in .spite of the deep water, Christiansen reached reach-ed her side but was nnnble In make any headway as lie was hampered, by his wet clothing. Oakley and his companion, 200 yards away, ;iKranted by the crh'M of the two people were Hie firflt to reach the spot, and hurried Christiansen to shore in Oakjey'a motor boat. j No trace could be found of Mrs. j Cole at first although the men were diving into the wal r in an effort to locale the body. As more assist-j assist-j inee arrived on the scene the work j went on with feverish anxiety. The boat which Christiansen was i trying out f;r the first time Sunday j wa sa light type (-'peed craft capable if making more than 30 miles per hour, lie had made morn than a : dozen tiipri out In the lake during IDie day before the final trip that i proved so disasti tUK. I Ilntli Chiistiansen Cole was born. , In Kphraim, July 27, III 10. Sho . moved to 1 ovo at an early age and I obtained her schooling In the j schools hore. i She Is survived y her husband, ICHford Cole of Salt Lake; a son, ; Stanley, one year old; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Axel Christiansen, 130 West Third South street, Provo. and the following brothers and Bisters, Thomas Christiansen, Suit Lake; Ralph, Boyd and Norma Christiansen, Christian-sen, Provo, and Mrs, Anna Stone, Vineyard. Funeral services wero held Wednesday at 1:30 p. m. In the Provo Sixth ward chapel. |