Eureka Reporter | 1906-09-21 | Page 2 | Had Narrow Escape

HAD NARROW ESCAPE young woman s peculiar escape from death which claimed comrades new york miss fannie aay a young department store employed who was one of eight persons in a naphtha launch which capsized in tha lower bay saturday had a most remarkable escape from death three 0 her corn were drowned when the launch with disabled engines was run nto by a mud scow when nothing was seen of miss day for hours after ward it was oe ported that she met death but when the mud scoy had been towed nearly to its destination and the deck hands were adjusting the dumping apparatus they were startled to find a handsomely dressed young woman in one of the pockets miss day had been scooped out of the water by the dumping machinery which had been left open after the scow had dis charged its load at sea