Show I BOAT BOitt CAPSIZED I SIX DROWNED LAUNCH PARTY IN HONOR HONOR OF ENGAGED COUPLE RESULTS IN TERRI TERRIBLE LE TRAGEDY Party of Sixteen Thrown Into Water and When Help Came Two Hours Later Only Ten Were Clinging to Overturned Overturned Boat Salt Lake City Six Six members of or a pleasure party of sixteen out for a asail asail asail sail on Utah lake were were drowned Sunday Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day when the li liItle launch capsized They perished In the waves waves after a I desperate battle for their lives which lasted over two hours Ten other members of ot the party clinging to the overturned launch were rescued after they had been in the water for more than two hours The launch capsized as the result of a sudden gust of wind which caught the sail and overturned the boat The sixteen persons in the party were thrown into the lake All of them clung to the boat as long as they could Then one by one the I doomed dropped off orr and drowned In each Instance one person dropped off the side of the boat and another attempted attempted at at- tempted to go to the persons person's rescue In each Instance both were drowned Those drowned were Frank Brown aged 23 Vera Brown aged 21 Helen Brown aged 19 Edward B. B Holmes Benjamin Benjamn n W. W Raymond anc an and his nis 5 year old son Sherwood Raymond all residents of at Salt Lake City Th The accident accident ac ac- ac occurred near Geneva thirty thirty- five miles south of Salt Lake City Holmes was engaged to Miss Miss' Vera Brown and tho the party was given in honor of the approaching marriage of the he the young couple Captain Edwin Brown an old s seaman aman who saw three of his children perish owned ned the boatIn boat boatIn boatin In which the party took took- the fatal ride and was among those rescued when a boat passing in the distance was attracted by signals from the ors ore |