Luck Deserts ‘Lucky’ And Two Friends
As Three Drown Offshore Near Pt. Vida
The fickle fortunes of luck de
serted George “Lucky” Eckenberg,
Saturday and after surviving three
shipwrecks he lost his life when a
20-foot dory in which he and three
others were passengers, overturned
75 yards offshore from his home
on Port Vida.
“Lucky” was drowned as was
Oscar Hope and Danny Toshwak
is missing. The only survivor was
Mrs. Oscar Hope.
The accident was witnessed by
Oscar Peterson who was following
the quartet by about a mile when
he noticed that the engine conked
out, and a sthey were attempting
to start it a swell overturned the
small craft. Peterson, a fisherman.
brought in Lucky and Mr. and Mrs.
Hope, but only Mrs. Hope was alive
at the time and he rendered artifi
cial respiration. A few minutes la
ter Bob Hall of Kodiak Airways
came along and brought Mrs. Hope
into the Griffin Memorial Hos
pital.
The bodies of the two drowned
men were brought to the Kodiak
Mortuary, Monday. The search for
Toshwak continues.
Eckenberg’s latest brush with
death was on Feb. 7 when his ship,
the Barracuda, struck recks on
Monashka Bay and two of Ms pas
sengers, Agnes Frump and Mike
Bjerken were drowned. Lucky
made his way ashore and walked
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