Show st george garage N man an drowns in lake much aluch excitement wn was caused in panguitch sunday when word caino came over the telephone from Pan gultch lake that a man mail had been drowned there the word was received by sheriff frank haycock at about lit 11 1 30 a in and lie immediately immediate went about gathering ill up rope hooks and other necessary e equipment preparatory inking faking charge of tho the hunt for tile the body sheriff Slier lff haycock arrived at the lake about or 2 00 in tile the afternoon ready beady to start the search but found the lake was too rough to do anything consequently the work of locating find aud bringing the body from the water was waa not started until about sheriff haycock found by talking with the survivors that the drowning victim was F rank frank miller 1111 ler 40 prominent garage man of st george who in the company of glen cal andrews and lavon mcquaid also of st george had gone out on oil the lake early in I 1 the morning to fish Accord according hij to the three boys they lad had been fishing for sometime ime when the wind came up causing waves to form which gradually grew worse they debated about returning to shore until the wind died down and finally decided to do so turning around they headed for tile the south shore and had gone gone but a short distance when a littge wave came into the boat find and sa sank mk it out from under them throwing their coats and fishing tackle into tile tho lake As they came to the gurvace they I 1 all made a lunge for the capsized boat which had bad cariie come to the top mcquaid and andrews were successful in catching hold but miller who came up last failed in ills effort to grasp the slick tin bottom of file lie overt overturned arned boat ant and sank again into the water which according to the three survivors was I 1 the last they ever saw of him j the accident occurred about one I 1 quarter mile out from the north I 1 shore between the cove a and n d ipson 1 pg on point and tho the boys thil thinking dang it too far to swim held on to the boat and drifted with it toward shore llull n tit J about M aliey stayed in tho the water for at least 30 minutes before they were noticed by a fisherman on shore who ran for ills his car and drove a round to tile the south shore am told W T owens jr that a boat had bad tipped over I 1 mr air owens and koz nichai ds got into a motor boat and went across the lake and picked up lip the strand ed fishermen phone calls were to mr air millers relatives in st george and ills his brother william arrived at the scene of the tragedy late in the afternoon calls were made to io surrounding 9 towns for motors and men these calls were answered from pang cedar city Parow carowan parowan anand and st george I 1 I 1 the dragging went on all night sunday and all day monday until evening when ope operations ratios were call ed off until tuesday morning I at tuesday morning the body was picked up and brought to the surface odthe of the water by joe and ned miller find and was reported to have been in ec excellent ellent condition relatives of the drowned nan man took the body to st SC geroge whore where burial i will be held this la Is the first time within the memory of the oldest pioneer of this ills t section thata white person has been drowned in panguitch Pan gultch lake many years ago there Is a jegens told of till an indian who built a fire on the tee ice in the lake laka which melted and drowned him several K ral times in the past pait few years there have been some very narrow escapes on the lake people should take warning from the sad gad accident which has just occurred and be careful about going on the lake in a high wind w ind and to refrain from OVerload overloading ink the boats at any time garfield county news |