Man Loses Life Saving Girl After Two Children Drown
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- Title
- Man Loses Life Saving Girl After Two Children Drown
- Date
- 1947-05-27
- Description
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An article from the Richmond Times that reads,
"Buchanan, May 26 - (AP) - Two teenage children were drowned and a 25-year-old filling station operator lost his life in dragging a third child from the waters of Cave Springs Lake at nearby Springbook late this afternoon in a boating accident.
The dead are:
Berlin Fisher, 25, of Springwood, attendant at a filling station in Roanoke.
Jeannette Anderson, 15-year-old daughter of Mr. and MRs. W. H. Anderson, of Springwood, all of whom were prisoners of war of the Japanese.
Carol Seay, 14-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Seay, of Springwood.
The three went down in the remote lake at 6 P. M. and at 11 o'clock tonight life saving crews were still grapping for the body of little Carol Seay whose 11-year-old sister, Iona, escaped, along with two other children.
Fisher, who was fishing on the bank when the boat overturned, swam out to the struggling children and started pulling Iona Seay towards the shore when he suddenly gave out and went down, the child said tonight.
Iona, whose sister perished in the accident, said that the other four children in the boating party were swimming around playing 'tap tag' and the boat overturned when they all grabbed one side.
She said FIsher swam out and got her as she struggled to keep her head above the water. He started pulling her towards the shore, but 'all of a sudden he let go and sank.'" - Creator
- The Richmond Times
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- image/jpeg
- Subject
- Springwood
- Type
- Text
- Publisher
- The Richmond Times
- Coverage
- Springwood, Botetourt County
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- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
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- Community
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Springwood Drowning
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