By The Associated Press

Shooting, fire, drowning and traffic accidents left South Carolina with a tragic weekend toll of at least 16 violent deaths.

A family quarrel at McBee erupted in pistol fire. Sheriff Don Hill of Chesterfield County said Lawton R. Ursrey, 55, of Hazelhurst, Ga., was killed and his brother-in-law, James C. Johnson, 56, was hospitalized in critical condition.

Gunfire at a Columbia cafe killed Preston Titus, 23. Officers arrested a woman.

Frances Ann Hess, 19-year-old coed at the University of South Carolina, drowned when she and companions were swept from a rock while sunbathing in a rapids of the Saluda River near Columbia. The Belvedere girl drowned but her companions were swept to safety by the surging waters.

Fire originating in the kitchen of their Surfside home proved fatal to Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Chestnut. Officers said they suffocated.

Two young people died when the car in which they were riding hit a tree near Barnwell. They were Linda Bonnie Kave, 19 and Thomas Burnett Gray, both of Allendale.

Pedestrian Joseph English of Gaston was fatally hit by a car.

Among traffic wreck victims were Earl Sanders, 48, of Columbia; Charles Clark Rapp, 29, of Rt. 3, Lancaster; Henry Walton Jones Jr., 22, of Greenville; Francis Gorman McKinney, 35, of Jackson; Louis Johnson, 60, of Berkeley County; Daniel Cornelin Harrelson Jr., 50, of Tabor City, N. C., in a wreck near Loris; and Richard Beaudrot, 30, of St. George.

James Lee McClure, 26, of Rt. 4, Chester, was killed in a highway accident on Highway 72, six miles north of Chester.