SAVED BY A DOG
EXTRAORDINARY SAGACITY
Extraordinary sagacity on the part of a canal boat dog saved the lives of a family of tin »on board at midnight. They were asleep m their cabin bunks on a barge lying off Wheelock, near Sandbach, in Cheshire, when the man in charge of the boat, John Meredith, was awakened by the animal springing on the bed and barking. Meredith, still in a somnolent state, knocked the animal off, but in doing so discovered there was a big rush of water, and that the boat was fast sinking. The terrified man aroused his wife and child, and the three only just managed to scramble from the cabin. and gain the embankment when the boat sunk, Meredith being compelled to wade through water which was up to his waist, with the child ~1 his arms. It is believed that the founderng was due to a heavy load of iron bars, which caused a portion of tho bottom of the barge to give w«,y. Hundreds of persons visited the spot ii see the bedclothings, pots, pans, and other domestic articles floating on the water. Later the boat was raised after her cargo had been removed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15730, 3 October 1914, Page 2 (Supplement)
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