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Show SACRIFICE LIVES TO SlMPllS Three Young Men Unable to Swim Leap to Death From Leaky Boat. PHILADELPHIA, May 31. Sacrificing Sacri-ficing their lives to save four companions, com-panions, two of them girls, three young men, none of whom could swim, leaped into the Delaware river from a sinking sink-ing rowbont late yesterday and were drowned. The story of their sacrifice was told today by survivors. The dead are John Moucheeh, Haymond Tinney and John Mui-.hy. Tinney an.l Sarah German, a member mem-ber of the party, were engaged to be married. The craft containing tho seven sev-en young people began rapidly filling with water when a hundred yards from shore, from a loose board ou the bottom. bot-tom. Despite the efforts to bail the boat with their caps, it soon became evident that unless the load were lightened light-ened the boat would sink before bhore could be reached. None of the party could swim, but all the men volunteered to jump that the others might bo saved. Tinney was the first to spring over the boat 's side, quickly followed bv Moucheeh and Murphy. The boat capsized, however, after the three ter and tin four oilier cmvu a utg vu-re thrown into tho rivrr. John Nov ill and (ieor'p German, the other mnlo numbers of the j tarty, chine to tho oNcrtnrncd craft and raping tho frirls as they sank for the second time, held them until a jnot orhoat raced to tlie rescue. |