SCOUTS FOUND DEAD
Driven On To Lake Erie (Rec. 10.30) NEW YORK, April 11. Four boy scouts were found dead from exposure aboard a rubber raft on Lake Erie to-day. The scouts, thinly clad, were driven into the lake last night when overhauling a drifting canoe. A coastguard picket board located the raft after a 17-hour ship and plane search, during which winds reached 50 miles an hour.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 151, 12 April 1950, Page 5
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