Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1909 — YOUNG WIFE IS DROWNED [ARTICLE]

YOUNG WIFE IS DROWNED

Three Couples Leap into Stream A*t*r Launch Engine Explodes. Washington, June I.—One person was drowned and five narrowly escaped a similar fate in the Potomac river when a gasoline launch carrying three young married couples, out on a holiday excursion, caught fire from an ex-i plosion in the oil tank, forcing the occupants to leap overboard. Mrs. May Wood, twenty-two yearn old. lost her life. Another launch rescued the others. Her husband tried to keep her afloat but could not retain bold of her.