The Reighton Tragedy.

HUNMANBY:
The Reighton Tragedy.

One of the most distressing accidents ever associated with the Yorkshire coast took place at Reighton, some three miles south of Filey, on August 29. Three Leeds children, all girls, were wading on the sands in company with two other girls, their cousins, who live near, and all five lost their lives through being unconsciously surrounded by the in-coming tide. The circumstances were of an extremely pathetic nature, for the children were drowned in sight of their mothers, who frantically, but without avail, rushed into the sea in an attempt to rescue them, whilst another visitor, who could not swim, managed to get within 20 yards of the children before being compelled from exhaustion to give up his attempt. The three children, who belonged to Leeds, were the daughters of Mrs. Lavinia Taylor, wife of David Taylor, a drayman, of 11 Kirkland-place, Beeston-road, Leeds, and a fact which makes the affair still sadder is that they constituted the entire family of Mr. and Mrs. Taylor. Mrs. Taylor has for some time past been staying with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Webster, who resides at Reighton, and to whom the two other children belonged. The names of the children are:-

• Lily Taylor, aged 12.
• Clarissa Taylor, aged 9.
• Elsie Taylor, aged 7.
• Martha Alice Webster, aged 11, and
• Hannah Mary Webster, aged 3.