Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1910 — FOUR FIGHT SEA FOR LIFE [ARTICLE]

FOUR FIGHT SEA FOR LIFE

Edna Wallace Hopper Stranded on Rocks With Three Others in Open Boat. New York, June 13. —After spending a night of terror in an open power boat fast on the of Little Hell Gate and exposed to pouring rain and cold, Miss Edna Wallace Hopper and Miss Laura Guerite, two prominent women of the stage, with their husbands, A. O. Brown, lately a stockbroker, and John J. Parker, who is in the electrical business at 1 Madison avenue, are now confined to their homes in Flushing, L. I. The women suffered seriously from the exposure. The men are little better off. Mr. Brown also injured one leg during the all-night struggle to keep the stove-in boat bailed out. A third man, John Shriner, chauffeur for Mr. Parker, was also in the pow’er boat and suffered exposure.