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Show THOU8AND8 WATCH TRAGEDY Two Men Drowned In Sight of Plesture Seekers. Banta Monica, Cut Two men were drowned In tho surf nt Ocean ptrk Sunday afternoon by tho capsltlni of n xaxillno launch. Pur nearly in hour and a bait the lcllms clung lo the overturned eesol In full lew of 11,000 people, while desperate effort made to achieve their rescue PIimI-ly PIimI-ly one of the men, a Han Pedro fisherman, fisher-man, exhausted b tho pounding ot the wates und king struggle to keep tils head aUno water, cut tho lashlni Hint IhhniiI him lo the little craft and dropped Into the water evidently hoping hop-ing to lie waehed ashore Instead, lie disappeared from lew und was swept seaward b) the undertow John Cochran, Coch-ran, owner of Hie ecl, remained bound until the Incoming tide liter-wheluied liter-wheluied and drowned him. Hla body whs recovereu unie lime laier wnen effort lo reach the launch aucceeded |