BOATING TRAGEDY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15520, 30 January 1914, Page 7

BOATING TRAGEDY.

1 drowned. 8 - | »l: LOST FROM LAUNCH. 1 WBW AT KESCCE. I MiVtUtt AT RESCUE. I w ■ — i Ms MSB his LIFE. I fe: — ll' jjiff SEA RUNNING. i! h — I jIaLITY off rangitoto. ill 4'UioiC drowning accident occurred M |W*»sUirm of wind and rain in Rangi- | 1 Tchannol l« st evening, by which two ■IB lost their lives t I C V">» }{ V ri R ''' Tnn • 18 years « & V t daughter of Mr. R. Rowan, 1 M--Zut.nl inspector, of twington Avenue, If | t j cn . and the second was Robert, I 15.,» y wr» of age. who also resided If i ™ Dcminioa R<ad ; . ~. /J f: Ywterdiv morning a party, consisting # I i 'lis! Myrtle Rowan, Miss Mary Rowan, 1 1 l|: SL". Hwcl Taylor (Takapuna), Miss Alice 4 I V rrav (Northcoto). and Messrs. B. Cowley IB sf,L.byl, Ray "-in. ,i. Lorn'.. Robert Gordon ' W. Good, — I I'lickawi. Noel Cole, and Robert Cole (Doihio- Road) ,eft 10 Robt Cole's launch Artjnu '0t Deep Creek, near Brown's Bay. Th „ rr ived there without mishap, spent ® 'La hiWts, and left again for Auckland '- SVboßtten minutes to seven o'clock. :t About half » hour later - when about A- opposite Lake Takapuna and the Rangi--5 toto Bescon, the launch was tossing about f considerably, and the ladies became seaf •- , 'S v lnd'.-went below, leaving Myrtle | Rowan, Serins, and Cordon, on the top i'd the

; Overboard Suddenly. II started .to rain heavily, and Gordon into shelter. Bovine began to .arjmat tarpaulin to shelter Miss Rowan mid himself. Just as he was doing this titk« » hig sci came on board or the launch gave a larch: at any rate, Miss Bourn end Bevins went overboard very pwMenly-,»Q • The awknt was at once noticed, and while Bevins supported Miss Rowan in (fee water tbo launch was brought about, 0 pifk them up! When the launch got star tym, two of the men, W. Good and p.cbcrt Gordon ; the latter carrying a line, diwl "crboard. There then appears to :Ja«t'i»a some confusion. Rain was fallifeg, there was a heavy sea running. "They both came alongside of us," tad Bevins, in his statement to the police last sight, "and Gordon said, 'It is all light: I have got a rope.' I don't reanything more until I found Bj^jlf,lying on the floor of the launch."

Carried Oat ol Sight.

*Good, in his statement to the police,; said: —" The boat ranged alongside of us and Gordon came alongside of the girl, • acd, as far as I know, lie was trying to tie the rope around her when Bevins and, myself were palled aboard by the others on the .boat,.'. Miss Rowan and Gordon, ■wfre carried away out of our fight. ..The , wpWwas started, and we cruised about, *i!i i> searchlight - going, but we failed (ofird any. trace of them,. •■'-"T's stopped for. about half - an hour jeafiing.:and then came, oft to Auckland Kir-ported the'matter to the' police. We ;W|<wr; dinghy strapped on board, and ; the strap was untied and. the dinghy ; jjawrtd, but she was carried away by tho jea."/c*""

Mis* Mary Rowan, sister of the girl who .*& tat, developed .a severe attack of hysteir* after the accident, and became very ill,;' and her condition, when she- arrived w Auckland last evening, was causing be friends some anxiety. The accident war reported to the water police, immediately on the arrival of the .WK&>at.the Auckland wharves a few Kißtxtea before nine o'clock last evening. A search is being made for the bodies W morning.' y