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- Silver Lake
On the 3rd, while a party of eighteen young couples from Nunda were
enjoying a picnic at Silver Lake a fatal and terrible accident
occurred to two of the number, HARRY SANDERS, son of C. K. SANDERS,
editor of the Nunda News, aged 17 years and Miss KITTIE BAKER of the
same place aged 15 years, about 8 p.m. took a row boat at Walkers dock
and started out on the Lake.
This was the last seen of them alive. In the morning their hats were
found floating upon the water near the Dowling Sportsmen's House on
the east side, and later the boat in which they embarked the previous
evening was found in the rushes at the foot of the Lake.
The Lake was covered with boats and dragging parties all day Sunday
and Monday without any success in a vain attempt to recover the
bodies. The parents are nearly distracted. The search will be resumed
to-day. It is said Miss Baker is subject to fainting spells and it is
conjectured that she might have had one in the boat and Harry going to
her assistance both fell in and were thus drowned. Both were bright,
intelligent children and the affair has cast a deep gloom over the
community. This is the first accident on the Lake in over 30 years.
Perry, July 5. J. H. T.
P.S. 8 a.m. July 6. The bodies have just been found. Inquest now being
held.
[Friendship Chronicle, Vol. 1, No. 22, July 7, 1880]
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