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Lamentable Occurrence—On Sunday morning, about 10 o’clock, six persons—Abraham Walter, Catherine Walter, Nancy Walter, Caroline Barringer, Charles Hardendorff, and Celinda Walter, attempted to cross Lake Summit, in the north part of the town of Springfield, in a small, leaky boat. Before they had reached half the distance they were alarmed at the increase of the leakage and commenced bailing out the water, the women using their shoes for that purpose, but to no effect, as it increased rapidly in depth, and the boat filled and sank in about fifteen feet of water and thirty rods from the shore. The five first named were drowned. Celinda Walter, aged about fourteen, saved herself holding onto the boat, which came to the surface bottom upwards, and was rescued by a person who came to her relief in a boat, having heard the cries of the sufferers from a half mile distant.
June 3, 1839
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