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Show Pleasure Seekers Have a Thriller A woman, whose age is given as 55 years, a man aged about 30, with both legs paralyzed, a lad fourteen and three other men, all in one boat, were capsized at Fishlake Wednesday Wednes-day of last week, according to n narrative related by I. N. Parker, the well known Southern Utah salt man, who aided in caring for the unfortunates. unfortu-nates. Mr. and Mrs. Parker, just recently re-cently returned from the resort, where they enjoyed n brief outing. In relating the experience of tho rescued, Mr. Parker stated that the family, Brown by name, and hailing from Salt Lake, were in the northeast north-east end of the lake and were bound for home. When about 100 feet from shore and where the water is some fifteen feet deep, in some manner the boat was overturned, being overloaded, over-loaded, no doubt. In the scramble not one of the party lost control of their senses, or became hysterical. , The woman, it is said, was more sensible sen-sible and directed others of the party par-ty to he calm. Her attention was directed to saving the man who was paralyzed. With difficulty she grasped the invalid and assisted him to the overturned boat. The lad, so tho story goes, was a good swimmer, j ami after battling with the waves and being handicapped with a pair : of heavy rubber hoots on hiv feit, managed to reach the boat, where he clung until the boat was towed j to shore. j The three other men, all liandi- capped with hip boots, were floundering flounder-ing in the storm ridden waters. One man, so he confessed, sank in the bottom and finding a convenient lock 1 sat down and took the boots off, afterwards floating to the top and swimming to the shore. The other i two men managed to roach a solid I footing and after doffing their i hoots, rescued the boat by swimming j out and towing it to shore. ; Due to the fact that it was getting dark most of the fishermen had left ; H, hat part of the lake, the Browns ! were alone and it was some two hours j before word reached the hotel of the ; predicament. The party having the j thrilling experience were finally I landed at their camp, and while suf-I suf-I fering slightly from the cold, they j were none the worse from the exper-j exper-j ience. They were free to give advice, i however, to the effect that an over-! over-! loaded boat is a dangerous mode of , tvavcl on any body of water. |
