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Show UTAH LAKE CLAIMS TOLL OF SIX LIVES Six persons, members of a pleasure party on Utah Lake, were drowned Sunday morning, when the boat capsized There were sixteen in the party who were crossing the lake to Saratoga, where lunch was to have been served in honor of Miss Vera Brown and Edward B. Holmes, who were to have been married June 21st. The party was made up of Salt Lake people and were in high spirits when the unexpected trouble came. A sudden gust of wind was the cause of the dreadful dread-ful disaster. Mr. Brown, who was managing the boat, was on the lower deck while part of the company was in the cabin above when the boat capsized and threw the passengers into the water. Then it was that the fight for life began, be-gan, each trying to cling to the overturned over-turned boat. The launch turned completely com-pletely over four times and each time a life went out. Little Sherwood Raymond Ray-mond was the first to go down and his father Benjamin W. Raymond watched anxiously for the little fellow to appear and when he came to the surface the father made a desperate attempt to save him, but being overcome from cramp and cold the father and child went down together. The next to go were Helen Brown and Frank Brown her brother. Miss Brown lost her hold and slipped into the water and her. brother, in an attempt to save his sister, lost his hold. The struggle proved too severe and brother and sister went down clasped in each others arms. Those who were clinging for their ! lives to the uncertain boat had be en ! gathered together for the purpose of I learning of the engagement, of the young couple. They were forced to i witness the struggle of the young couple , against death and then to see them go down together wedded in death. J Six persons had gone down to death and yet the horror of the tradgey was ; not to an end. For two long hours the i survivors fought for their lives waiting i for a rescuing b at and when it at last came, manned by a party from j Provo the boat would not hold them all j and a rope was tied about one man and he.was towed in. . The names of the dead are: Frank Brown, Vera Brown, Helen Brown, Edward B. Holmes, Benjamin W. Raymond Ray-mond and Sherwood Raymond, his little son. Mr. Brown, the owner of the launch, ' had been a sailor on the high seas for j many years and bid launch was one of the most trustworthy on the lake. He I is simply frostrated over the event, and j cannot explain just how it happened, i . |
