Cecil R. Karberg, 19, reporter, died attempting to save Dorothy McGrew, 13, from drowning, La Jolla, California, August 6, 1911. Dorothy, who could not swim but who wore water wings, was swept off her feet in a cove of the Pacific Ocean and was carried toward the ocean by a current. Karberg, who was a poor swimmer, immediately swam 30 feet to Dorothy and placed one hand under her arm. Both tried to swim against the current to shallow water, but their efforts were futile, and they were carried out of the cove. After remaining with her five minutes, Karberg urged Dorothy to keep paddling and to have courage, and then he separated from her. They drifted apart. Karberg made swimming motions for a few feet and then became motionless. When he was reached by a strong swimmer, he was dead. He had died of heart failure. Dorothy was rescued by a man who swam to her with a rope. 7923-709
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