FATHER’S ORDEAL
TRAGIC CRY OP CHILD VANISHED BEFORE EYES Toddling ahead of her father to buy an ice-cream, four-year-old Ruby Marina Yamell ,on holiday at Anderby Creek, Lincolnshire, disappeared in a hole in the sand. “She just seemed to slip in,” her father, Mr. John Robert Yamell, of Lincoln, told the Mablethorpe coroner. “I went in after her, but all I could see was a piece of her hair-ribbon and one hand. She gave one cry of ‘Daddy!’ and! never heard her again.” Evidence was given that Mr. Yarnell, in his efforts to save the child, sank up to his shoulders in the sand. Ho had to be pulled out with ropes. The engineer of the Alford Drainage "Board explained that there was a culvert under the sand. This had a cavity wall, a board of which had evidently rotted. The incoming tide had caused a subsidence and the mixture of water and sand had resulted in what might be termed quicksand. A verdict of ’‘Misadventure’’ was returned,
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20047, 20 September 1939, Page 2
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168FATHER’S ORDEAL Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20047, 20 September 1939, Page 2
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