W. Holmes Yeakley, 41, physician, died saving Maria W. Glasgow, 39, from drowning, Clare, Virginia, June 25, 1914. Mrs. Glasgow became distressed while attempting to swim across a pool in the Calf Pasture River, and she went beneath the surface in water over six feet deep. Yeakley, who for two months had been under treatment for blood poisoning and had taken a heart stimulant during a month of that time, left a point of safety and went to her. She was near the surface when he reached her, and she seized one of his arms. Yeakley struggled toward shallow water. He got Mrs. Glasgow close to shallow water, and his wife and Mrs. Glasgow’s daughter pulled Mrs. Glasgow to wadable water. Before they could aid Yeakley, he went beneath the surface, and when his body was recovered, he could not be revived. 13277-1013
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