Show TIo ATHLETES ARE DROWNED IN THE THEBy I J By B United Pre Press PORTLAND AND Or Ore Peb eb 12 Sucked 12 Sucked under the th e water when their canoe overturned Harry v. V lammie and Charles L. L K KirkpatrIck rJ of oC the Portland Rowing Portland club were In the floOded ded Willamette river r five miles above Oregon City today With sl six other youths and f four ur canoes Gammie and and Kirkpatrick started from front Salem at 7 SO a m. m to today to- to day to paddle downstream fifty miles to to Portland They had gone about thirty miles mUes when their canoe cano In the rear of ot the little fleet leet an an- t especially espe espe- pe- pe daily vicious whirlpool and foundered Vainly they t tried i d to cling to the up upturned upturned up- up turned b boat at while the flood waters i whirled them about The three thre other canoes put b back cl to rescue them tiem hut but and Kirkpatrick went under other before help hell arrived The bodies hodiN have not been recovered With the Willamette e overflowing its banks everywhere and sending down a swirling muddy lUddy stream there seemed little chance today that the bodies c can n be found until the water recedes unless th they y are are caught as they go over th the thirty-foot thirty falls at Oregon Cit City The six other members o of at the party arrived rl in in Portland safely Gammie and Kirkpatrick patrick were WE're both employed I in Portland banks and were members of the Multnomah Amateur Athletic club |