Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1909 — LAUNCH WRECKED; 4 PERISH [ARTICLE]

LAUNCH WRECKED; 4 PERISH

Other Members of Sunday School Picnic Party Are Rescued. Baltimore, Aug 6.—Two drowned bodies are lying at the Canton police station and two others at the bottom of the Patapsco river. ISxteen members of a picnic party were miraculously saved when a gasoline launch in which they were all riding was wrecked. . The drowned were: Mrs. Katherine E. Brown, aged sixty years; Marie Hawes, aged five years; Willard Leach, aged twelve years; Frank Prior, aged nineteen years. Pryor was acting as engineer of the launch. The others were attending the annual picnic of the Huntington Avenue Baptist church Sunday school at a shore resort a few miles east. Twenty persons had entered the launch and it had reached a point about a hundred yards from shore when it struck some piling, and its occupants were thrown into the water, which, at that point is only about four feet deep. Rescue parties saved sixteen and recovered the bodies of Mrs. Brown and th little girl, but those of Pryor and Leach were not recovered.