| Show BEAR LAKE CLAIMS THE LIVES OF TWO SALT LAKE PEOPLE A second drowning tragedy in a week for the dear bear lake region occurred last friday night and saturday morning when two salt lake city people were ir owned in dear bear lake only the previous sunday two paris in the dear bear lake ea canal nall the victims were mr and mrs E H mcaffee both 45 of salt lake city utah the tragedy was the grim climax to a vacation trip the family had started late wednesday night members of the family making the trip to the fish haven resort were mr and mrs Af mcaffee cAffee a ag year old daughter mava and a son doyd boyd 2 23 0 mr and mrs mcaffee and daughter started across the take lake at 11 friday morning in their IS 13 foot motorboat the swan at 6 p m the same evening they were about a mile oft off shore from lakota deach beach when a and heavy wind suddenly eniy cacao cano up the huge waves capsized the boat it was stated that mr mcaffee was dro drowned almost immediately father and daughter ath the aid of life preservers managed to clin cling to the small portion of the boat remain remaining above water throughout the night after officials were notified they went in search finding the girl in a semi conaci conscious ous condition clinging to the boat about saturday saturday a afternoon after fter she told her lher rescue party that her f father ather attempted to swim to shorn shore about 62 0 that morning arr binl ia itc ditc tc search found no trace of him birn the body ot of mrs mcaffee was discovered floate floa tV near the scene of the tragedy A klif life preserver tho the man was vas have been haidn to when he started for shore was found about 75 yards from ahn th opp sized boat indicating mr mc ale tailed to ever reach shore tt was stated that doyd boyd mcaffee remained nt at the fish haven camp when his parents and sister started on the fi fishing hing jaunt he was in poor health and feel fit to attempt the boat excursion he stated the trio had planned to fish all night and thought that when the storm arose and they return to camp that they had beached at some other point along the lake shores when the parents and their daughter fa led to return to fish haven saturday morning however doyd boyd notified officials who immediately began the search searching parties with grappling hooks books have been combing the area each clay since saturday but have hake been unable to locate the missing continued on last page BEAR LAKE CLAIMS THE LIVES OF TWO arim SALT P SAB A T T I 1 T LAKE S aeby 16 TT 1 rhth lil lili P E v i continued from page one body tuesday a chief deputy from the sheriffs office at salt lake city with a large quantity of apparatus for such a purpose made a thorough search of the n naters aters but to no avail sheriff bunderson of bear lake county volunteered his services and a large number of grappling hooks to t 0 aid the utah officials in the search as did many other bear lake people it was reported the boat turned over in water measuring feet deep searchers for the missing body were greatly handicapped by the depths of the water ranging from 80 to feet another son don mcaffee 21 of salt lake city as well as immediate relatives have been at fish haven constantly since saturday and directing the search for mr mcaffee affee the body of the dro drowned woman was taken to the williams mortuary at montpelier Monib pelier saturday and later to salt lake city to await burial services it was the hopes of the family t that hat mr McAffe es body could be found in due time for a double funeral service mava the daughter who escaped with her life was given medical care at fish haven and the first of the week returned to her home mr E H mcaffee was a prominent t salt lake city businessman being assistant manager of the salt lake office of the metropolitan life insurance company |
