SEATOUT FATALITY SMALL BOAT CAPSIZES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 51, 1 March 1913, Page 5

SEATOUT FATALITY SMALL BOAT CAPSIZES

HOW THE AC Jji.v'S'' 1 HAPPENED.. Further parti' lars of tho sad law.-'. 4 y off Scatoun yes' 'day are available from the survivor, * W. R. Potter, who was the fourth vjcupant of the boat.. Aa stated in '• Post yesterday evening Mr. and Jii 'V. H. H.mi and their 1 only child, Py-'- ,', a boy of four yearc, wove diowned Mr. Potter, after along struggle i. Avi water, was picked up by tli.j Pa- iia, who was on her way iii l-ici-on. Ue was landed at Seatciin, v,lu\ >, at die residence of Mr. W. linr Fohet «(u- treated by Dr. Her Leu. It apr?.io fi. Mr. Potter's story that t'lo [v ty hcided to go out in VanccV ,mall - . T!te littJ -aft was bull;, !j o ,• to carry loin' adukO A' ti she was carried she safely, t^.'a has .ver h.^foro met wild an accid:.it was '"atended by the party v> k» 3p >,c in to the beach, and as Vnc oca caltr no danger was anticipatia. c wa>- incurred until, after Jin^ieon ■ boa, was pulled out to the "-\nnac a collection of rocks between the s! and the channel, the site of much 1 p. T;,is spot is parti cularly populn ifh Ashing parties on lioli^Dy? and days. Mr." Potter .(.es* tiiat after a short stay it -.vas r led fx, move to another statio-j. As . Po.'tev kneeled in tho bow r,{ the 1) to uf anchor, he heard a sciP-,,11, a; the same instant theboat vos o\ rnpfl and all the occupants iJt-ecipi • d in'.o the water, Mr. Pott-r statpi / irtliT that he beca.ne imn»iMiitely solved with the kelp, but juierwa matsiged to free himself, and flo ou his back. All he heavd aft-er ? boat overturned was in afecni?i J sci ti Trcn Mrs. Ham. but he did no* see tny el the others again. J. ; o bej; <n, 1 self, to drift down the channel to da -Jio sea, when the PpLcer-- si -d-'-im, lowered a boat and vp-om I hiir-. Tht- act, caut^ of the accident can on I; ".-I; cc ituivd. In a boat with so litt-e 'ree fd the mere action of Mr. Pottt^ In ;.'ghv{ in the anchor, especij ally f i' *re -aught, would tend to life) Uie c d'nghy. The survivor's t'lei^ •>• h .it r-'ien ho got the anchoi 1 * off i".c ■.n Jie boat naturally went) dov. • b} '• bo;/s, and iie be'ieves than Mr... 11: > beco-.iing alarmed, screamed ouf .-ami .fw herself on the same side of Mie .as her husband, with they resn't ' the boat was overturned. It) is ".elf ' the*, neither Mr. Ham 11011 Jiis \vi- - uld swim; and that they, soou 'oeoini ltan^led in the kelp, and 1 ' we.'c 1 ■ led. Mr ' m, .vho w«3 about thirty-fivo year? ..ge, was a resident of Seatoun. Ke 0 ". ■ our, from England ten years ago, - given an appointment "with the ' . Con.pany, and rose to be chief elf. r tlw fitting depai-tment. Tho ma • of Uie gasworks (lAr. C. B. Nor\v win speaks highly of deceased's aL ' . J 3, P'-ys that Mi 1 . liam was really » . ider.- al officer of the company. i\ \ bf°u niarried but six years. Mrs. V nee .:liss Edwards) wasat one time c iiyed ?s typist in the empicy of the ("• - 'Jomj..iny. llv Pott.-w 1S a canvassI ' ( Ifrk :n the CwuipHiiy's ►m"l"'-. • JL T.r r _.j and tin- boy I 'mjk.\lm j k.\l yesterday afternoon. Tho . 1" of Vr Ham had uoo been obtained j 1 to tin. time of our going to press. 0 v is vu'\ roujjh, and it is .Icip...Bd that tiierr is but little hope tke i-iurch paity being successful to'('he >. -quest on the victims v'.'j nob 'cc i.'ii'e 'till next, week. D v Arthur Ci'y Coioner. "'"«- ' «•<■- I 'lies p' /-'.: Mort"'- '