A Mother’s Desperate Rescue in Ocosta Bay
A mother who could not swim dives into the freezing tide to save her drowning son.
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The strength of a mother's love was forcibly exhibited at Ocosta, Wash., the other day when Mrs. A. W. Barkley, although she could not swim, unhesitatingly jumped into the bay to rescue her little son from drowning. The little fellow was floating out with the tide, face downward, but the brave mother succeeded in reaching him and, upheld by her clothes, regained the shore.
“Although she could not swim, unhesitatingly jumped into the bay to rescue her little son.”
Ocosta, near Aberdeen, was once a booming terminal town that eventually faded; the raw, elemental drama of a parent's sacrifice remains as timeless today as it was in 1892.
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