FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT.

Timaru Herald, Volume LV, Issue 5517, 20 September 1892, Page 3

FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT.

ißx Tblegbaph.) GI9BORNB, Sept. 19. A »ad foal acoident oopurrad on Saturda] ■eve Ding, ofc a quarter to six, by which tw( eons of Mr Jno. Warren, county clerk, lo«i tbeir Htos. During tbe afternoon tbo fou; Warren boys, tbe eldest being If, scoom -panied by Jame; Hall 11, and ffm. Conmb 12, obtained tbeir parents' consent to rovr f>i tho river, but they went oat m the bay rounr tbe Talune. On returning the boat gol broadside on to tho break on the b&r, find thi lads wore not strong enough to pull ojQ sgaiDst tbe tide. Tho boat was carried in£' the breakers and swamped. They wen half an hour m tho water befori asiislance reacted them. A youth ntimec James Thompson, xeeing the accident pulled out m a flat boat and rescued Ooombai and Balph Warren. Th« launch Snarl returning from the Talune, also «baerved thi boye struggling m the water and hastened up BOd throwing a ]ile belt to Sal) rptcued .hip;

lin an exhausted Btate. Walter Warren wai pioked up clinging to the boat. Cecil, aged f and Alintar 10, were drowned. Xho foul boys were taken on board the Snark, on which a was Iho Italian Opera Company, who did al a m their power to assist m resuscitating little Baipb, who was only i'our years old and very much exhausted, and did not recover foi some hours. Tho body of Cecil was reooverec on the beach on Sunday morning. Tbe othoi body is not yot found.