OAKLAND BOY IS DROWNED
Sad Accident to Camping Party in Sierras -- Cold Caused Cramps

OAKLAND, July 10. Particulars of the drowning of her only son, 19-year-old Voltaire Bright, who met his death yesterday while bathing in a mountain stream near Yosemite valley, are being anxiously awaited today by his widowed mother, Mrs. Josephine B. Bright of 1018 Fourteenth Street, who learned of the tragedy last night through a brief telegram sent by Rudolph Folkers, who was with her son at the time of the accident. Folkers and Elvin Chambers, the 19-year-old Oakland high school youths who accompanied Bright on a hiking trip to Yosemite upon which they set out last Tuesday, are expected home today with full details of the tragedy. Meanwhile the distracted mother refuses to believe that her son is dead and is hoping against hope that a mistake has been made. Bright graduated from Oakland high school a year ago, and has since occupied a business position in San Francisco. He was drowned in By creek, at a point 15 miles above Groveland. He was seized with cramps while bathing in the cold water.

STOCKTON, July 10. - Coroner C. H. Burden of Tuolumne county is exploding dynamite in the South fork of the Tuolumne river today in the hope of bringing the body of Voltaire Baight to the surface. The three Oakland boys went in swimming just below a waterfall at the toll gate bridge on the Big Oak flat road near Hamilton yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Folkers and Chambers remained near the edge, but Bright, who was a daring swimmer, attempted to cross a deep pool and reach the spray of the waterfall. He sank in 40 feet of icy cold water.