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to hold onto the hull, but then it skin divers helping, Mary Haley,
sank again only to finally bob back age twenty-seven, was found
to the surface and stay there. around 7:00 a.m. Joseph’s body was
The water in Harris Creek, where recovered on Thursday morning,
the boat went down, was 14 feet about a mile from where the boat
deep, and the currents were strong. had sunk. Sells told police that he
It was about an hour before believed Joseph, Sr., had died when
the Haleys saw a boat, but it was the boat went down because he
too far away to hear their calls for never saw him after it sank.
help. It was another hour before a Joseph was a contractor who
boat came close enough to hear the worked for his father Joseph Merl
Haleys shouts. Haley in Emmitsburg. He was also
Only four people were rescued, a member of the Vigilant Hose
clinging to the upended hull of Company, and the family was
the boat, but three Haleys were members of St. Joseph’s Catholic
Church.
The family was buried in St.
Joseph’s Cemetery on Thursday,
July 21, four days after the sinking.
Rev. Martin Sleasman officiated.
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