Baker, Christopher, George, and Oliver
Sept. 21, 1889 Mariposa Gazette
Three Boys Drowned
A most sorrowful accident happened last Wednesday, near Modesto, in which three boys, Christopher C. Jr., aged 13 years four months and ten days, Geo. W., ages eight years, eleven months and five days, and Oliver P., aged eleven years, six months and twenty-nine days, sons of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Baker, were drowned in the Tuolumne River. The boys were bathing in the river when Oliver P. stepped onto a deep hole of water and sank out of sight. The brothers, Christopher C. and Geo. W., went to the rescue of their brother, and they, too, sank out of sight, and all three were drowned.
Sept. 21, 1889 Mariposa Gazette
Three Boys Drowned
A most sorrowful accident happened last Wednesday, near Modesto, in which three boys, Christopher C. Jr., aged 13 years four months and ten days, Geo. W., ages eight years, eleven months and five days, and Oliver P., aged eleven years, six months and twenty-nine days, sons of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Baker, were drowned in the Tuolumne River. The boys were bathing in the river when Oliver P. stepped onto a deep hole of water and sank out of sight. The brothers, Christopher C. and Geo. W., went to the rescue of their brother, and they, too, sank out of sight, and all three were drowned.
Baker, Christopher, George, and Oliver
Sept. 21, 1889 Mariposa Gazette
Three Boys Drowned
A most sorrowful accident happened last Wednesday, near Modesto, in which three boys, Christopher C. Jr., aged 13 years four months and ten days, Geo. W., ages eight years, eleven months and five days, and Oliver P., aged eleven years, six months and twenty-nine days, sons of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Baker, were drowned in the Tuolumne River. The boys were bathing in the river when Oliver P. stepped onto a deep hole of water and sank out of sight. The brothers, Christopher C. and Geo. W., went to the rescue of their brother, and they, too, sank out of sight, and all three were drowned.
Sept. 21, 1889 Mariposa Gazette
Three Boys Drowned
A most sorrowful accident happened last Wednesday, near Modesto, in which three boys, Christopher C. Jr., aged 13 years four months and ten days, Geo. W., ages eight years, eleven months and five days, and Oliver P., aged eleven years, six months and twenty-nine days, sons of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Baker, were drowned in the Tuolumne River. The boys were bathing in the river when Oliver P. stepped onto a deep hole of water and sank out of sight. The brothers, Christopher C. and Geo. W., went to the rescue of their brother, and they, too, sank out of sight, and all three were drowned.
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