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Sainte Genevieve, Sainte Genevieve County, Missouri
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In Leavenworth, Kansas, four boys—Mike and Dennis Desmond, Eugene and Denny Cummings—drowned yesterday when a cloudburst flooded a culvert where they sought shelter from the storm. Two others escaped unharmed; one body was recovered.
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They Sought Shelter From a Storm In Culvert, and Were Washed Away.
LEAVENWORTH, Kas., June 8.-Mike and Dennis Desmond and Eugene and Denny Cummings were drowned here yesterday. About two o'clock in the afternoon a cloud-burst came upon the city, and no such flood of water has been witnessed here for many years.
Upon the approach of the storm six small boys, the four named and two others, Mike Cummings and George Newsome, rushed to a culvert for shelter.
The flood came before they could realize what was happening and four of them were carried off by the rush of water. Three of them were carried down to the river, which is not far from the culvert. The body of Mike Desmond was recovered under the trestle work of the Northwestern railway which was caught by the obstruction. The two other boys escaped.
The alarm was promptly given and the creek dragged, but nothing could be found of the three boys. The Newsome boy states that he wanted to carry the little fellows on his back, but they were so badly scared that he could do nothing with them.
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Leavenworth, Kas.
Event Date
Yesterday
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four boys drowned: mike desmond (body recovered), dennis desmond, eugene cummings, denny cummings (bodies not found). two boys escaped.
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Six boys sought shelter in a culvert from a cloudburst and flood around 2 p.m. The rush of water carried away four of them; three were swept to the nearby river, one caught under Northwestern railway trestle.