The Milwaukee Journal, Monday, August 10, 1891
Death on Pewaukee Lake Four Young Milwaukee People Drowned Yesterday. Sailboat Capsized by a Squall.
At 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon a sail boat on Pewaukee lake, occupied by Albert Barth and sister Emma, Martha Kindling, Bella Siegler, Lora Barth, Bertha Kindling, and Thomas Wright, well known young people of Milwaukee, was struck by a squall and sank about twenty feet from shore. Four of the party Emma and Albert Barth, Martha Kindling and Bella Siegler, were drowned. The other three were rescued. The boat was overloaded and carried 600 or 700 pounds of ballast. The sails had been tied and when the squall came an accident was inevitable. The boat sank before the eyes of hundreds of pleasure-seekers, but all efforts to save the entire party were unavailing. Albert Barth succeeded in rescuing his sister Lora and returned to aid his other sister when both sank. The drowning sister grasped him about the neck and prevented him from doing anything to save either. Thomas Wright and Bertha Kindling were rescued.
Albert Barth and his sister Emma were aged 20 and 17 years respectively. They were children of the extensive South-side wholesale liquor dealer, Peter Barth. Miss Kindling was 18 years of age and a daughter of Louis Kindling the cigar manufacturer, and Miss Siegler was 17 years of age and a daughter of Leopold Siegler, also a cigar manufacturer on the South side.
The bodies of all four were brought to the city last night.
The funeral of Miss Martha Kindling will take place tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. from the family residence, 214 Hanover Street and those of the others Albert and Emma Barth and Bella Siegler, will take place at 4 p.m. from the residence of Peter Barth, 320 Madison Street. The interments will be at Forest Home.
Death on Pewaukee Lake Four Young Milwaukee People Drowned Yesterday. Sailboat Capsized by a Squall.
At 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon a sail boat on Pewaukee lake, occupied by Albert Barth and sister Emma, Martha Kindling, Bella Siegler, Lora Barth, Bertha Kindling, and Thomas Wright, well known young people of Milwaukee, was struck by a squall and sank about twenty feet from shore. Four of the party Emma and Albert Barth, Martha Kindling and Bella Siegler, were drowned. The other three were rescued. The boat was overloaded and carried 600 or 700 pounds of ballast. The sails had been tied and when the squall came an accident was inevitable. The boat sank before the eyes of hundreds of pleasure-seekers, but all efforts to save the entire party were unavailing. Albert Barth succeeded in rescuing his sister Lora and returned to aid his other sister when both sank. The drowning sister grasped him about the neck and prevented him from doing anything to save either. Thomas Wright and Bertha Kindling were rescued.
Albert Barth and his sister Emma were aged 20 and 17 years respectively. They were children of the extensive South-side wholesale liquor dealer, Peter Barth. Miss Kindling was 18 years of age and a daughter of Louis Kindling the cigar manufacturer, and Miss Siegler was 17 years of age and a daughter of Leopold Siegler, also a cigar manufacturer on the South side.
The bodies of all four were brought to the city last night.
The funeral of Miss Martha Kindling will take place tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. from the family residence, 214 Hanover Street and those of the others Albert and Emma Barth and Bella Siegler, will take place at 4 p.m. from the residence of Peter Barth, 320 Madison Street. The interments will be at Forest Home.
The Milwaukee Journal, Monday, August 10, 1891
Death on Pewaukee Lake Four Young Milwaukee People Drowned Yesterday. Sailboat Capsized by a Squall.
At 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon a sail boat on Pewaukee lake, occupied by Albert Barth and sister Emma, Martha Kindling, Bella Siegler, Lora Barth, Bertha Kindling, and Thomas Wright, well known young people of Milwaukee, was struck by a squall and sank about twenty feet from shore. Four of the party Emma and Albert Barth, Martha Kindling and Bella Siegler, were drowned. The other three were rescued. The boat was overloaded and carried 600 or 700 pounds of ballast. The sails had been tied and when the squall came an accident was inevitable. The boat sank before the eyes of hundreds of pleasure-seekers, but all efforts to save the entire party were unavailing. Albert Barth succeeded in rescuing his sister Lora and returned to aid his other sister when both sank. The drowning sister grasped him about the neck and prevented him from doing anything to save either. Thomas Wright and Bertha Kindling were rescued.
Albert Barth and his sister Emma were aged 20 and 17 years respectively. They were children of the extensive South-side wholesale liquor dealer, Peter Barth. Miss Kindling was 18 years of age and a daughter of Louis Kindling the cigar manufacturer, and Miss Siegler was 17 years of age and a daughter of Leopold Siegler, also a cigar manufacturer on the South side.
The bodies of all four were brought to the city last night.
The funeral of Miss Martha Kindling will take place tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. from the family residence, 214 Hanover Street and those of the others Albert and Emma Barth and Bella Siegler, will take place at 4 p.m. from the residence of Peter Barth, 320 Madison Street. The interments will be at Forest Home.
Death on Pewaukee Lake Four Young Milwaukee People Drowned Yesterday. Sailboat Capsized by a Squall.
At 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon a sail boat on Pewaukee lake, occupied by Albert Barth and sister Emma, Martha Kindling, Bella Siegler, Lora Barth, Bertha Kindling, and Thomas Wright, well known young people of Milwaukee, was struck by a squall and sank about twenty feet from shore. Four of the party Emma and Albert Barth, Martha Kindling and Bella Siegler, were drowned. The other three were rescued. The boat was overloaded and carried 600 or 700 pounds of ballast. The sails had been tied and when the squall came an accident was inevitable. The boat sank before the eyes of hundreds of pleasure-seekers, but all efforts to save the entire party were unavailing. Albert Barth succeeded in rescuing his sister Lora and returned to aid his other sister when both sank. The drowning sister grasped him about the neck and prevented him from doing anything to save either. Thomas Wright and Bertha Kindling were rescued.
Albert Barth and his sister Emma were aged 20 and 17 years respectively. They were children of the extensive South-side wholesale liquor dealer, Peter Barth. Miss Kindling was 18 years of age and a daughter of Louis Kindling the cigar manufacturer, and Miss Siegler was 17 years of age and a daughter of Leopold Siegler, also a cigar manufacturer on the South side.
The bodies of all four were brought to the city last night.
The funeral of Miss Martha Kindling will take place tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. from the family residence, 214 Hanover Street and those of the others Albert and Emma Barth and Bella Siegler, will take place at 4 p.m. from the residence of Peter Barth, 320 Madison Street. The interments will be at Forest Home.
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