Two men are rowing a boat down the Clear Fork Trinity River in search of fifteen year old Herbert Whitaker. Herbert, his brother David, and two friends were traveling down the river in a small row boat. They leaped from the sinking boat in the Clear Fork between the W. 7th Street and W. Lancaster bridges near the Holly pumping plant. Herbert was drowned. The two men in the boat are shown using grappling hooks to recover Herbert's body. A crowd of approximately 700 people are standing on the shore. Automobiles are parked in the background. Published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram morning edition, February 5, 1945.
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