DROWNED IN THE RIVER,
FATAIiFEY^ JIT pMRIEL 1
BRAyB . ATEMPT AT BESCUe!
News -was received in .town yestei*day of a drpwiiing accident-]whi«h; took placo. in vtho^.river oh; Ssitn'rday "afternoon nbov.e; Pipiriki. ■ i The, steaanet1 Wairua was negotiitincf'-»': riipid'^when f, fireman :named Spencer Abbott; whir had come on-deck fora few moments, fell overboard. No onorsaw the aecidont happen^ but JSpencer. was seen iv tho water. . ; The.riTer.;was. -in.,flood, and tho rajiid ■ wds iVarticuliirly■', turbtilont, but a half-castft named Anderson bravely "jumped" overboard,.and endea-; voured.to reach the drowning man; who however, sank^'arid ; wasIseen : no inpre. Spencer Abbott' was" only 19 \yinirn'■. of age. and sincere sympathy 'will be:f e) t> for his widowed mother ■' and other- ye =• lati%'cr; who reside in WancjanuJ.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12881, 13 May 1913, Page 4
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119DROWNED IN THE RIVER, Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12881, 13 May 1913, Page 4
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