Mary A. Buhner, 19, student, attempted to save Dorothy R. McClatchie, 19, from drowning, St. Petersburg, Florida, June 17, 1922. Miss McClatchie and Miss Buhner swam to a point about 4,000 feet from a pier in Tampa Bay, where the water was 20 feet deep. Miss McClatchie was suddenly bitten on the leg by what was later supposed to have been a shark, and she called for help. Miss Buhner, who was 15 feet from her, swam to her at once, saw the water was red with blood, and with her hand discovered the deep wound made by the fish. Miss McClatchie, fearing that the fish might attack again and feeling that she was dying, told Miss Buhner to go back to shore, but Miss Buhner had Miss McClatchie place a hand on her shoulder and started to swim toward shore with her. Miss McClatchie soon lost consciousness, an artery having been severed, and Miss Buhner, after a vain attempt to improvise a tourniquet for the wound out of her bathing cap, swam on toward shore, towing Miss McClatchie. After she had swum about 1,000 feet, being hampered somewhat by choppy waves, several men in a motorboat reached the girls and took them to shore, but Miss McClatchie was dead. Miss Buhner suffered from nervous shock. 222501-1796
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