75 MEN DROWNED.
CANADIAN RIVER TRAGEDY,
BOAT DASHED ON ROCKS.
Times-Sydney Sun Special Cable.
Ottawa, January 8. ONE hundred labourers were yesterday crossing the Frascr River (British Columbia) in a boat when fchfl current dashed them on to the rocks.
Seventy-five could not swim, and were drowned.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15504, 10 January 1914, Page 7
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