Five Sanitarium Nurse Trainees Drowned at Lake Goguac
A VERY sad fatality, in which the lives of five young people, all of whom were in training for nurses' work at the Sanitarium, were sacrificed, occurred at Lake Goguac, near this city, Wednesday evening, August 27. The party, six in number, were in a rowboat on the lake, and were run down by a steamboat, which in the darkness they did not see until it was almost upon them. None of the occupants of the boat could swim, and all were helpless when the boat was overturned by the collision, the darkness preventing any effectual attempt at rescue save in one case, that of a young woman who clung to the boat, and thus kept her head above the water. The names of the victims are as follows: Miss Fannie Willis, of Toronto, Ontario; Miss Mabel Rickerd, of Traverse City, Mich.; Miss Ella Dorsey, of Allegheny, Pa.; Miss Lizzie Brady, of Atlanta, Ga.; Mr. B. S. Bennett, of Little Rock, Ark. A memorial service was conducted in the Tabernacle by Drs. Kellogg, Paulson, and Thomason, and Elders Prescott and McCoy, Sabbath forenoon, the 30th. All the bodies save that of Mr. Bennett were taken to their homes for burial.