This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Rust, Davis, Chandler, Berneau Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/5773 Message Board Post: Cameron Herald – Thur., 10 July 1902 Deaths - Three men were drowned while bathing at the pavilion in Galveston last Thursday afternoon about 5:30 p.m. The dead are: Capt. E. G. Rust, age about 65, owner of the Dispatch Printing Company and Walter Chandler, both of Houston and James N. Davis, night editor of the Galveston News. Chandler was the son-in-law of Rust. Rust founded the Southern Mercury at Dallas and sold it to the Alliance in 1886 and was the owner of a publication at the time of his death. The trouble resulted from Chandler getting too far out beyond the ropes where he encountered an undercurrent which threatened to take him out to sea. His cries for help called Rust and Davis to his aid. When they encountered the current, they called for help. An expert swimmer, Prof. Herman Berneau, was present and he pulled Rust to shore and with him, three others who had gone out to assist and had become exhausted. Rust died from heart failure as he was not under water long enough to drown. Davis and Chandler ! were swept under by the current and their bodies were not recovered that day. The water was 10 or 12-feet deep where the men drowned and was inside the outer bar on which they could have waded. They had ventured some 100-feet from the ropes when they encountered the undertow, a current which sucks under and pulls the victim out from the shore. Davis’ son was with him and he too nearly lost his life in an effort to reach his father. The 1900 storm changed the gulf shore line at Galveston and since has been more dangerous.