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- iagara Falls Gazette
Two Brothers, Unable to Swim, Are Drowned in Storm Off Sandy Beach
Bergholtz Youths Are Victims Of Double Fatality; One Body Is Recovered.
The Niagara river took a ton of at least two lives yesterday when Harold Jagow, 17, and his brother, Benjamin Jagow, 18, both of Jagow road, town of Wheatfield, were drowned while swimming at Sandy Beach, on Grand Island in the upper river. Reports that another swimmer of the group at the beach was missing were not confirmed.
The body of the younger brother was recovered about 9 last night, some 400 feet out in the river from the point where he had been swimming and search is being today continued for the second body.
Accompanied by three cousins, the two youths went to the beach about 3 p. m. yesterday. and shortly after they had entered the water became separated from the others. With a crowd of some 50 or 60 persons at the small beach, they were not seen by their cousins again, the others assuming that the pair was somewhere in the crowd, which was agitated by wind and rain, which descended at intervals. Finally, about 6 p. m.. their attempts to become reunited with the pair disclosing that they were not in the crowd the cousins raised an alarm and the customs border patrol was notified.
One woman in the crowd revealed that she had seen one of the boys go down in the deep water a short distance from the shore but had assumed at the time that he was merely diving. Meanwhile rumor spread that three other swimmers were missing but two of these were later discovered inland under a tree where they had protected themselves from the storm. Whether a third person was actually missing could not be determined.
Neither of the brothers could swim a stroke, members of the family said today. The pair had never been to the beach before, they said.
Accompanying the pair were three cousins, Norman Devantier, 21 years old, and his two sisters, Lydia and Edna Devantier, all of Tuscarora road, Town of Niagara.
Sergeant Oliver C. Vossler and Inspector Edward T. Millidge, of the customs border patrol, found the body of the younger Jagow brother at about 9 o'clock last night through the use of grappling hooks. Medical Examiner Charles E. Long, of Buffalo, issued a certificate of accidental death.
The search was abandoned late last night because of the high wind hut was resumed today although it was feared that the other body may have been carried down the river and possibly over the cataract.
Funeral arrangements for the younger youth have not been completed yet but is expected that the service will be held Wednesday. Surviving the pair, who were born and raised in Bergholtz, are their father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Jagow; six brothers, Walter Jagow, of Denver, Col., and Howard, Franklin, Irwin, Victor and Frederick Jagow, all of the Town of Wheatfield; and four sisters, Mrs. Hugo Gade and Mrs. Melvin Williams, both of Bergholtz, and Elfrieda and Marilyn Jagow, both at home.
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Niagara Falls Gazette
TWO BROTHERS LOSE LIVES IN NIAGARA RIVER
Residents of Niagara Falls Boulevard, Bergholz, are drowned near Buckhorn Island
Two brothers were drowned in the Niagara River at the state park reservation on Buckhorn Island just off the northeast shore of Grand Island yesterday afternoon.
Authorities reported they were Harold and Benjamin Gagow (sic) of Niagara Fans Boulevard, Bergholtz, Town of Wheatfield. They were eighteen to twenty years old.
The brothers went to the island at 3 p. m. with a third youth, who started a hunt for them when it was time for him to go home. The brothers' clothes were found on the shore and when no trace of them was to be seen the United States customs border patrol was notified. Sergt (sic) Oliver C. Vossler and Inspector Edward T. Millidge went to the scene in a boat equipped with grappling irons.
After dragging an hour the border patrolmen found one of the bodies. whose it was could not immediately be determined. They were grappling for the second body early this morning. Medical Examiner Charles E. Long was notified and went to the island.
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Niagara Falls Gazette
SECOND BROTHER IN GRAND ISLAND BEACH DROWNING IS BURIED
Body of Benjamin Jagow, Victim of Double Tragedy, Interred at Bergholtz
The body of Benjamin Jagow, 18 years old, of the Jagow road, Town of Wheatfield, was laid at rest this afternoon in Holy Ghost cemetery. Bergholtz, beside that of his brother, Harold, 17. who was buried yesterday. Both boys met their deaths in a double swimming fatality at a Grand Island beach Sunday afternoon but the elder brother's body was not recovered until yesterday afternoon.
Recovery of the body. as was related in yesterday's Owl edition of the Gazette, was made near the Canadian Maid of the Mist landing by Edward Sloggett and Bert LeBlond, employees of the Maid of the Mist Steamship company, who were able to reach it near the Falls View bridge in a rowboat.
Identification of the body at the Morse and Sons funeral parlors in Niagara Falls, Ont., was made late yesterday by Fred Jagow, father of the youths. Dr. George B. Snyder, Niagara Falls, Ont, coroner, examined the remains and decided that an inquest was not necessary. The services this afternoon were held from the family home with the Rev. John Kuchenbecker, pastor of the Holy Ghost Lutheran church, at Bergholtz, officiating.
The body of Harold was recovered Sunday night near the spot where the drowning occurred by members of the customs border patrol who dragged the river with grappling hooks. The two youths, with three cousins, went to the beach Sunday about 3 o'clock and immediately became separated from their relations. The cousins did not realize, because of a rain storm and the crowd that the pair was missing until about 6 o'clock when an alarm was raised. The double fatality was first reported to have occurred at Sandy Beach on Grand Island but J. C. Janes, agent for the owners of the Sandy Beach property, yesterday denied that it had occurred there but placed it at the Wagner farm, an adjoining property.
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Niagara Falls Gazette
BERGHOLTZ, July 29-Funeral services for Harold Jagow, 16, who was drowned Sunday while swimming at Sandy beach, on Grand Island, in the upper river, were held at the family home Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock and from the Holy Ghost Lutheran Church at 2:30 o'clock. The Rev. John Kreckenbecker (sic) officiated. The bearers were: Clarence Hoyer, Norman Devanter, Arthur Wolf, Harrison Noblo, Alvin Schemschack (sic), Alvin Stoelting. Interment was in the Holy Ghost cemetery.
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