Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1911 — LEAVES LIFE LINE AND IS SWEPT AWAY BY UNDERTOW. [ARTICLE]

LEAVES LIFE LINE AND IS SWEPT AWAY BY UNDERTOW.

Nebraska Attorney Drowns at Michigan City in Presence of Sister And Cousin. Michigan City, Ind., July 17.—Going beyond the life line at the bathing beach while Lake Michigan was rough this afternoon, Frank C. Burke, 30 years old, an attorney of Lincoln, Neb., who, with his sister, Miss Rika Burke, of Lincoln, was visiting relatives here, was swept off his feet by the undertow and drowned twenty minutes afterward. His body was recovered in four feet of water by the life savers. Burke ventured out beyond the line, contrary to the advice of the bathing beach attaches. Miss Burke and her cpusin, Miss Emma Cook, the latter a resident of this city, sat on the shore not fifty feet away and heard Burke’s cries for help and saw him struggle a few minutes in a vain effort to swim. Miss Burke fainted and was not brought to entire consciousness for an hour. She and her brother, who had been here for three weeks, had planned to return home tomorrow morning.