Oscar A. Deming, 42, laborer, died attempting to save Bernice M. Segerstrom, 5, from drowning, Somers, Montana, May 3, 1918. Bernice and her five-year-old brother fell from a barge moored to a pier into Flathead Lake, where the water was 18 feet deep. Her father dived from the barge and rescued the boy. In the meantime Deming got on the barge, jumped into the lake with his clothes on, swam a stroke or two toward Bernice, and then sank slowly and was drowned. Bernice’s father rescued her. 18872-1555
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