TRIPLE DROWNING FATALITY.
GREYMOUTH, April 23. A trip]© drowning tragedy occurred today in the Ahaura River, abotit 1.30 p.m. William Crysell, engine driver, aged 50, John Brosnan, aged 30, and Thomas Reynolds, aged 45, both dredge hands, were in a boat engaged in the work of moving the Ahaura dredge down stream in a fresh for dismantling, when the boat by some means capsized. The men all disappeared, and were not again seen. The boat was drifting away when tho dredge maeter first noticed the accident. The bodies have not yet been recovered. Crysell leaves a wife and a grown-up family of three at Ahaura, Brosnan leavea a wife and two children at Waikaia, Otago, and Reynolds was a single man.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3398, 30 April 1919, Page 46
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121TRIPLE DROWNING FATALITY. Otago Witness, Issue 3398, 30 April 1919, Page 46
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