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Show HUP I Utah Lake Yields the I Bodies of the H Browns H Salt Lake, June 5- Searching pan lll ies dragging the bed of Utah lake ten ll day recovered the bodies of Frank, ll Brown nnd Helen Brown who, with ll four others of a launching party woro H drowned yesterday following the cap- IH sizing of their craft H Divers are assisting in tho search IJ for the bodies of the three other vie- M tlms of the accident. H "Expecting to have an unusually en- M Joyablo day on the lake, we started H out In life Galilee at exactly 015 H o'clock in the forenoon," said O. E. M McMullcn, 323 East Third South H street, ono of the heroes of the Utah H lake disaster, after he "had returned H to Salt lAkc last evening. "A strong H wind was blowing, but the lake was H not then particularly rougn. IH "As we swung out into the lako H heading. I believe, in tho direction of H the mouth of the Jordan, the wind be- 1 gan increasing and a choppy sea de- ft veloped. A sail had been set to help IH out the motors against the wind, then 1 being somewhat favorable to a sail. H As wo proceeded the wind began In- M creasing and the sea became choppier M and soon burst Into white caps. H "Under the strain the sail bulged H and tucized and the boat tipped some- H what under the pressuro of the canvas. M Then, under the furious gale that M swept over the lake and struck tho H sail, the boat tipped away over and H the sail dipped In the lake and soaked. H With the first turn Raymond and his H five-yenr-old- son went overboard. Jt Raymond may have been attempting jH to save the boy or he may have been M thrown out simultaneously, but as H we Inst saw him sink In the water, IH struggling frantically, ho had bis son IH in his arms. I smashed my watch with IH the first turn of the boat. Its hands JM stopped exactly at 10:30 o'clook and H that must have been when the ac- H cdcnt occurred. H "While clinging for our lives wo H tried to help him. but a single move H endangered us. Vera Brown was at H -the-point of 1ieIngplunKei overboard H when her .foot caught "In whnt'I be- H .licvj? was the gunwbale and her body IH hung oyer Into the water. With nn IH heroic effort Holmes tried to save her. H but when he released his hold on the IH boat he vas swept Into the water Captain Brown mndo a heroic effort to M save him. Holmes, after a fierce H struggle to reach the boat, sunk and M disappeared from our view. M Fruitless Effort to Help. H "Vera Brown, with her foot caught M In the boat, was still struggling to H try to lift her head out of the water H and we did everything In our power M to try to save her Tho storm was H Increasing and we had to look on and jH finally see her struggles cease. Wo H then "knew that sho was dead. With H another gust of wind Frnnk and Helen H anoiner gUSl Ol Winn rrmiK aim nt-ieu ih Brown, brother and sister of Vera H Brown, whom wo knew was dead, wero ' H swept Into the lake, both struggling H to regain n hold on the boat, when H thev finally sank and were drowned. H "Shortly the storm began to subside H and those who survived nftor being H In frequent danger of being washed H awnv, secured their holds on the boaL H I climbed as high up on the boat as H I could and waved mv coat until my H arms were numb. Wo could see no M movement on the shore and It seemed M hours before we finally detocted a slg- M "A motor boat hove in sight. The 1 thud of the engines could be heard M nnd It wns soon alongside our boat H There were sixteen occupnnts.'almoct M the capacity of the craft, which was jH about as lano as ours. We wero IH dragged one by one Into tho rescuing IH boaL It sank to witnin a fow feet of IH the gunwales and It wns at first feared H that two trips would have to bo made. H "It was impossible to take Vera H Brown on board and after her foot H had been released from our overturn- H cd motor boat a roue was lnshed H about her body and sho was trailed to H shore. The sight of her body swinging H in the wake of the rescuing boat near- H ly drove us frnntic." IH |