DRIFTED TO DEATH.
>» ""TWENTY" HELPLESS RAFTSMEN GROUND. TO ATOMS. Montreal, July 23. AFranch despatch from Pembroke, eightysix miles above Ottawa, Onb., on the upper Ottawa river, says that two days ago some miscreants cut the ropes holding a raft of logs to the bank, where the twenty-two raftsmen on-board were sleepihgoverbight. The raft, with the men all asleep on board, drifted out into the river and then into the rapids a rhile below, and before those aboard awoke or could collect their senses they wore tossed about amid the rocks of the rapids and the logs of the raft, which had broken Up.> :• ■i i - Of the tiventy-two. men aboard the raft only two survived. No traces of the bodies 'of the other twenty have been found. They must have been ground to death.' The authorities are trying to discover who cut the ropes, but no further particulars are ab hand. ■■".'■],
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Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 194, 18 August 1890, Page 3
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