Carol Carroll (90916970)
Suggested edit: Knoxville News-Sentinel, Monday, May 23, 1966, Knoxville, TN, Page: 1
On Pickwick Lake
4 Youths Killed in Boat Collision
MEMPHIS, May 23 (AP)--A weekend pleasure trip (for 10 Memphis teen-agers ended abruptly Sunday as a freak boating accident left four of them deads and four injured.
For Suzanne Cook, now hospitalized in Memphis, the outing marked only the second time she had missed Sunday church services.
"I guess the Lord has a purpose for her," her father, Newton Cook, said Sunday night.
Suzanne, 17, and three other Memphis youngsters were hospitalized from the midnight motorboat collision on Pickwick Lake, near luka, Miss.
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The dead were identified as H. R. (Mike) Yost, 13; his sister, Cynthia Lee Yost, 17; Carol Carroll, 14; and Glenn Lee Steinkamp, 17.
The boats were piloted by young Yost and Dudley Deaton 111, 15, who was injured. Sheriff James Bishop of Northeast Mississippi's Tishomingo County said one boat was torn apart, and the other stayed. afloat, with six survivors clinging to it.
"The boat was just there, and we didn't have time to do anything," said Deaton, whose boat remained afloat. "We just hit head-on and then crawled on top of the boat and hung on."
Survivors Rescued
Rescuers pulled the survivors to safety from about 100 yards offshore in the lake, which is formed by the Tennessee River in the adjoining corners of Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama.
The body of Miss Yost was not recovered until Sunday night.
Tommy Hilt who was among the first to reach the scene, said he "heard a blood-curdling scream" from his cabin 250 yards away. "Then I heard someone say "Hold on to the boat.'"
"I was sitting with my back to the front of our boat," said Judy Ives, 17. "The next thing I knew I woke up on the bank all wet."
Judy and Jack Dale Jr., 17, were treated, and dismissed.
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"We were up there with the boys yesterday," Deaton's mother said Sunday. "They were to come home today (Sunday). Bob's parents h a v e a house up there."
Rescuers said that apparently a plywood Century boat driven by Yost was struck broadside by a figerglass Evinrude. Both were powered by engines of more than 150 horsepower and were demolished.
Mike Yost reportedly left the Pickwick Coves Marina about 11:30 p.m. with Miss Carroll, whom he had been dating. They went to the Stateline Boat Dock, about a mile northwest of the Marina, and picked up his sister and two of her friends. Daleand Steinkamp were also in theboat.
The party was on its way; back to the Yost houseboat when the other boat roared outof the darkness and hit them. Apparently the boys in the Deaton boat were headed for a cove where the cabin in which they were staying is located.
Contributor: MVLambert (49061701)
Suggested edit: Knoxville News-Sentinel, Monday, May 23, 1966, Knoxville, TN, Page: 1
On Pickwick Lake
4 Youths Killed in Boat Collision
MEMPHIS, May 23 (AP)--A weekend pleasure trip (for 10 Memphis teen-agers ended abruptly Sunday as a freak boating accident left four of them deads and four injured.
For Suzanne Cook, now hospitalized in Memphis, the outing marked only the second time she had missed Sunday church services.
"I guess the Lord has a purpose for her," her father, Newton Cook, said Sunday night.
Suzanne, 17, and three other Memphis youngsters were hospitalized from the midnight motorboat collision on Pickwick Lake, near luka, Miss.
All Young People
The dead were identified as H. R. (Mike) Yost, 13; his sister, Cynthia Lee Yost, 17; Carol Carroll, 14; and Glenn Lee Steinkamp, 17.
The boats were piloted by young Yost and Dudley Deaton 111, 15, who was injured. Sheriff James Bishop of Northeast Mississippi's Tishomingo County said one boat was torn apart, and the other stayed. afloat, with six survivors clinging to it.
"The boat was just there, and we didn't have time to do anything," said Deaton, whose boat remained afloat. "We just hit head-on and then crawled on top of the boat and hung on."
Survivors Rescued
Rescuers pulled the survivors to safety from about 100 yards offshore in the lake, which is formed by the Tennessee River in the adjoining corners of Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama.
The body of Miss Yost was not recovered until Sunday night.
Tommy Hilt who was among the first to reach the scene, said he "heard a blood-curdling scream" from his cabin 250 yards away. "Then I heard someone say "Hold on to the boat.'"
"I was sitting with my back to the front of our boat," said Judy Ives, 17. "The next thing I knew I woke up on the bank all wet."
Judy and Jack Dale Jr., 17, were treated, and dismissed.
High-Powered Boats
"We were up there with the boys yesterday," Deaton's mother said Sunday. "They were to come home today (Sunday). Bob's parents h a v e a house up there."
Rescuers said that apparently a plywood Century boat driven by Yost was struck broadside by a figerglass Evinrude. Both were powered by engines of more than 150 horsepower and were demolished.
Mike Yost reportedly left the Pickwick Coves Marina about 11:30 p.m. with Miss Carroll, whom he had been dating. They went to the Stateline Boat Dock, about a mile northwest of the Marina, and picked up his sister and two of her friends. Daleand Steinkamp were also in theboat.
The party was on its way; back to the Yost houseboat when the other boat roared outof the darkness and hit them. Apparently the boys in the Deaton boat were headed for a cove where the cabin in which they were staying is located.
Contributor: MVLambert (49061701)
Carol Carroll (90916970)
Suggested edit: Knoxville News-Sentinel, Monday, May 23, 1966, Knoxville, TN, Page: 1
On Pickwick Lake
4 Youths Killed in Boat Collision
MEMPHIS, May 23 (AP)--A weekend pleasure trip (for 10 Memphis teen-agers ended abruptly Sunday as a freak boating accident left four of them deads and four injured.
For Suzanne Cook, now hospitalized in Memphis, the outing marked only the second time she had missed Sunday church services.
"I guess the Lord has a purpose for her," her father, Newton Cook, said Sunday night.
Suzanne, 17, and three other Memphis youngsters were hospitalized from the midnight motorboat collision on Pickwick Lake, near luka, Miss.
All Young People
The dead were identified as H. R. (Mike) Yost, 13; his sister, Cynthia Lee Yost, 17; Carol Carroll, 14; and Glenn Lee Steinkamp, 17.
The boats were piloted by young Yost and Dudley Deaton 111, 15, who was injured. Sheriff James Bishop of Northeast Mississippi's Tishomingo County said one boat was torn apart, and the other stayed. afloat, with six survivors clinging to it.
"The boat was just there, and we didn't have time to do anything," said Deaton, whose boat remained afloat. "We just hit head-on and then crawled on top of the boat and hung on."
Survivors Rescued
Rescuers pulled the survivors to safety from about 100 yards offshore in the lake, which is formed by the Tennessee River in the adjoining corners of Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama.
The body of Miss Yost was not recovered until Sunday night.
Tommy Hilt who was among the first to reach the scene, said he "heard a blood-curdling scream" from his cabin 250 yards away. "Then I heard someone say "Hold on to the boat.'"
"I was sitting with my back to the front of our boat," said Judy Ives, 17. "The next thing I knew I woke up on the bank all wet."
Judy and Jack Dale Jr., 17, were treated, and dismissed.
High-Powered Boats
"We were up there with the boys yesterday," Deaton's mother said Sunday. "They were to come home today (Sunday). Bob's parents h a v e a house up there."
Rescuers said that apparently a plywood Century boat driven by Yost was struck broadside by a figerglass Evinrude. Both were powered by engines of more than 150 horsepower and were demolished.
Mike Yost reportedly left the Pickwick Coves Marina about 11:30 p.m. with Miss Carroll, whom he had been dating. They went to the Stateline Boat Dock, about a mile northwest of the Marina, and picked up his sister and two of her friends. Daleand Steinkamp were also in theboat.
The party was on its way; back to the Yost houseboat when the other boat roared outof the darkness and hit them. Apparently the boys in the Deaton boat were headed for a cove where the cabin in which they were staying is located.
Contributor: MVLambert (49061701)
Suggested edit: Knoxville News-Sentinel, Monday, May 23, 1966, Knoxville, TN, Page: 1
On Pickwick Lake
4 Youths Killed in Boat Collision
MEMPHIS, May 23 (AP)--A weekend pleasure trip (for 10 Memphis teen-agers ended abruptly Sunday as a freak boating accident left four of them deads and four injured.
For Suzanne Cook, now hospitalized in Memphis, the outing marked only the second time she had missed Sunday church services.
"I guess the Lord has a purpose for her," her father, Newton Cook, said Sunday night.
Suzanne, 17, and three other Memphis youngsters were hospitalized from the midnight motorboat collision on Pickwick Lake, near luka, Miss.
All Young People
The dead were identified as H. R. (Mike) Yost, 13; his sister, Cynthia Lee Yost, 17; Carol Carroll, 14; and Glenn Lee Steinkamp, 17.
The boats were piloted by young Yost and Dudley Deaton 111, 15, who was injured. Sheriff James Bishop of Northeast Mississippi's Tishomingo County said one boat was torn apart, and the other stayed. afloat, with six survivors clinging to it.
"The boat was just there, and we didn't have time to do anything," said Deaton, whose boat remained afloat. "We just hit head-on and then crawled on top of the boat and hung on."
Survivors Rescued
Rescuers pulled the survivors to safety from about 100 yards offshore in the lake, which is formed by the Tennessee River in the adjoining corners of Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama.
The body of Miss Yost was not recovered until Sunday night.
Tommy Hilt who was among the first to reach the scene, said he "heard a blood-curdling scream" from his cabin 250 yards away. "Then I heard someone say "Hold on to the boat.'"
"I was sitting with my back to the front of our boat," said Judy Ives, 17. "The next thing I knew I woke up on the bank all wet."
Judy and Jack Dale Jr., 17, were treated, and dismissed.
High-Powered Boats
"We were up there with the boys yesterday," Deaton's mother said Sunday. "They were to come home today (Sunday). Bob's parents h a v e a house up there."
Rescuers said that apparently a plywood Century boat driven by Yost was struck broadside by a figerglass Evinrude. Both were powered by engines of more than 150 horsepower and were demolished.
Mike Yost reportedly left the Pickwick Coves Marina about 11:30 p.m. with Miss Carroll, whom he had been dating. They went to the Stateline Boat Dock, about a mile northwest of the Marina, and picked up his sister and two of her friends. Daleand Steinkamp were also in theboat.
The party was on its way; back to the Yost houseboat when the other boat roared outof the darkness and hit them. Apparently the boys in the Deaton boat were headed for a cove where the cabin in which they were staying is located.
Contributor: MVLambert (49061701)
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