Mart, TX Boys Drown in Boating Accident, Feb 1908

Submitted by Linda Horton

FOUR SMALL BOYS DIE IN BOATING ACCIDENT

Mart, Texas, Feb. 29.—By the over-turning of a boat in which six small boys were fishing on a small lake near this place this afternoon, four of them were drowned. The dead:

BAILEY YANCEY, aged 12

ARVEY VINSON, aged 13

WILLIE RILEY, aged 12

RUPERT GOSSETT, aged 9

Albuquerque Journal, Albuquerque, NM 1 Mar 1908