Show LN rEASONS PERSONS WHEN I I Boy oy Scout Masters Masters and nd Six 1 Members of South Bend BendI i I Troop Victims of Acci- Acci jit dent Ident in Michigan Lake I fix SIX ARE SERIOUSLY HURTIN HURT IN TORNADO I B aumont Texas Struck by byj 1 j f Destructive Wind OneL One I I L Death eath Reported in Nearby Nearby Near Near- by by Village Shoppers Cut SOUTH SOUTH BENT Ind March 25 JO JoHeph Jo- Jo eph X N. Taylor executive of th the Boy SCOts and six boys were drowned in Magician lake seven miles from D Mich this afternoon I They drove to the he lake from here In inI i automobiles this morning to prepare a amp amp I camp mp for tor th the boys this summer When they ther reached the lake take they divided into hito two to groups eight of ot them taking a S steel boat propelled by by bya a detachable motor to cross cross the lake tAtter Atter they had gone a a- short way a breeze struck the boat causing It to ship ip water and It sank throwing the occupants Into the lake dead are Joseph N. N Taylor S s out executive Jam 5 Taylor his hiss hisson S s son n William Borrough Borough William Kingsley Kings Kings- l Icy ley y Verne Murphy Judson Taylor and Clinton Matthews It lt was late tonight before the details de details de- de tails of ot the drowning began to reach this city because of ot the contusion confusion among the surviving boys and the distance dis dis- tance Lance they were from homeN home nv V. f N C C. Harper Harpel and his year old sore soil son were to have gone in the boat but Harper decided the last minute to o re remain remain re- re main nain on shore The cries of ot his son who saw the thea accident told him of what bad had happened and he rushed to the thel l lake ake kc side sid Seeing Seeing tho the struggling boys he Jumped Into a rowboat equipped with I one paddle and attempted to reach them When Then within fifty feet of ot where the the- boat sank he saw Joseph Taylor holding his son out of the water Before Before Before Be Be- fore he ho could reach them they both s sank ank S If The Tho accident occurred sixty rods from tile the shore after atter I the party had hadS S left for an an- Island in the center of ot the 1 lake ke on which the Boy Scouts were establishing a new new camp for the sum Bum mer Several trips had been made mado to I Ithe the ho Island earlier in the day and on the he latt there were seven persons In Inthe the he boat The coroner of ot Dowagiac who sho is investigating gave It as his oi opinion that the boat was overloaded Scout Taylor and his littie little lit- lit tie lle son were the last tp to go down Fifty feet t et of ot water separated them from escue by Vi W. W C. C Harper who had drivEn which the thes En n one of ot the automobiles in s scouts outs made the trip to the tho lake from So South th Bend From the shore he saw the he boat go down on an even keel the thearty party arty floundering In the water lie He a leaky rowboat and pulled against the rough waters oward the tho scene only to arrive too late None None of ot tho the bodies bodles has been ered I Three automobile loads toads of ot Boy Scouts Scouts had left lett this city for the fhe lake early this morn morning the first two arriving early while white the last group arrived shortly after noon Scoutmaster Jo JoS JoSeph Joseph Jo- Jo S seph Ph Taylor was in charge of ot the outing outIng outing out- out Ing party and the motorboat which capsized Vernon C. C Murphy is thought to io be the other ther man who drowned while the names the six boys bos with the exception of ot Taylors Taylor's young son I have ave not been verified i |