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Show OUTING ENDS IN TRAGEDY. Picnic Party Comes to Grief When Rowboat is Overturned. Billings, Mont. Four lives were lost Sunday afternoon by the capsizing capsiz-ing of a boat filled with Sons of Hermann Her-mann picnickers on the Yellowstone river, about a quarter of a mile above the dam of the Montana Water Power company, two miles south of this city. Among the drowned is John Staffek, alderman from the Third Ward, and one of the most prominent of Billings' citizens and a pioneer well known throughout Montana. Mr. Staffek was dragged down to his death by three young girls, who seized him when the boat overturned, and perished with him. They are Pressie West, aged 16; Minnie Waggoner, Wag-goner, aged 17, and a child of 6 years. The daughter of Lewis Lehseldt had gone down for the third time-when time-when W. J. Scott, racing along the bank with a long pole, managed to raise her body to the surface of the water and work it ashore, the child being revived after several hours of heroic work. |