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Show DROWNING OF A I ' GIRL AT LAGOON H Boat Tips Over While Young Couple Are Exchanging Seats and H j' -Emma Youngquist is Precipitated to Her Death Victim H Was a Waitress in Kennedy's Cafe on Washington H if Avenue Home in Erigham City. H V Another fatality occurred at Lagoon H t vesterday. Miss Emma Youngquist, a H ! pretty waitress or Kennedy's caTo in H Ogden, going to her death in the wa- H ) tcrs or the boating reservoir, and her B companion, Joseph Melogram. em- Hj .t ployod in an Ogden tailor shop, bav- H Ing a narrow eacnpo with his life. H I The pair wore thrown into the water H . by their bont overturning while thoy H )' wore endeavoring to exchange scats. H ! Miss Youngqulst's tiody was hot Ve- H covered until thirty minutes later, H ' and all efforts to resuscitate here were Hl j In H ' According to friends of the couple, H ' i hey left Ogden on the A o'clock Bam- Hl berger train nnd soon after their ar- Ht ' rival at the Lagoon engaged a boat H nnd began a trip around the small H ' lake where boating is permitted. Mel- H ogram had rowed for Rome time when H I his companion expressed a desire to H the H The pair succoeded in exchanging H r Reals In safety and Miss Youngquiec m- proceeded to take her Initial lesson H in managing a boat. Being unfa- H , miliar with the task, she made little H , headway, the craft turning about in Hfl contrary response to her ofTorts. and H J phc finally abandoned the nUempt in H ' dlscuitt. Hj I Tin tired. Joo." she exclaimed: H , "You row the crazy old bout and let H . me H Melogram compiled with the re- H A quest and the two prepared to again exchange scats In the boat. Just as HH they were creeping past each other, 1 however, Miss Youngquist accmed to Hi ratch her foot on n projection of a J seat and she stumbled. In an ef- H fort to regain her balanco she threw Vi her weight against Melogram and Hr the fib till on shock caused thu boat to H Mp H . Both were thrown Into, the cold wa- Hj ftT and, according to witnesses. Miss H Youngquist sank immediately, Melo- J gram arose to the surface, but boing H unable lo swim, he could but splash H about in the wntor and again sank. H George Cardoff and Harry Graycs, two Hr Salt Lake boys, were in a boat near H' by, but, being unable to swim, they H did not venture to plunge Into the H water aftor the drowning couple. Hrl They gave the alarm, however, and Hjj Albert Burton of Ogdcn hurried to H ihf Hl As Melogram again came to the sur- H face ho was seized by Burton and the Hl ,wo hoys and was dragged Into thu 1 hoat 1 Dr. A. A. Robinson of Ogden, -who 1 was passing the afternoon at tbo re 1 sort, was summoned and succeeded In resuscitating the man, while others oth-ers to the number of twenty or more made frantic efforts to reacji tho bod of MIns Youngquist by diving. Tho water was extrcmoly roily, which prevented pre-vented tbo rescuers from finding tho body for a considerable langth of Lime, tho divera being further handicapped by Lhelr clothes. William Woods, an export swimmer swim-mer of Farmlngton, soon joined tho group and. realizing the rutllity of diving In his clothing, proceeued to dhest himself of the greater portion por-tion of his garments and dove to tho bottom of the lake, which was about sixteen feet deep at the point where tho accident occurred. His second attempt wns successful, his hand encountering en-countering the foot of the girl while ho was blindly groping about on the bottom, and he brought (he body immediately im-mediately to tho surface. Ready bands conveyed the unconscious) uncon-scious) form to tho shore, where Dr. Robinson worked Incessantly for nearly half an hour endeavoring to bilng back life. To much time had elap?ed, however, and all efforts were-In were-In vain. The body was later viewed by a coroner's jury consisting of Coroner L. II. Ovlatt, W. Rore. G. W. Larson Lar-son and M. C. Ud, denth blng pronounced pro-nounced due to accidental drowning. The body was then brought to the Lnrkin mortuary at Ogden by a Bamberger Bam-berger train .and this morning was roshlpped to Urlgham City, w-bcro the parents of the girl reside. Emma Youngquist was the daughter daugh-ter of Thomas and Anna Johnson Youngquist and was born Dec. 13. 1393. at Brlgham City. Sho passed the greater portion of her life In that towu and came lo Ogden about two month's ago.to work In Kennedy's ca(e on Washington avenue. She was an exceptionally plcauant girl and had won many friends during her brief stay here. It is said that her mother Is prostrated. She left tlvo brothers and sisters. Her father Is a carpenter. |
