Drowning Accidents

Drowning Accidents.

A Number of People Lose Their Lives in Different Localities.

Parkersburg, W. Va., July 16.-While three of the most prominent lumbermen of this neighborhood--Lee Haven, Thomas Watson and James Urick were attempting to prevent some rafts of logs in the Little Kanawha from floating off they were drowned. A few hours before at a pond a little further up the stream a man named John Francis, also a lumber merchant was drowned while attempting to protect his property.

Winnipeg, Man., July 16.--On Friday nine employees of the Eau Clair Lumber company, attempted to cross the Bow river Canaski rapids, near Calgary, in a row boat. While making a landing on the other side they lost their oars and drifted down over the rapids and six of them, four Scandinavians and two Canadians, were drowned. The other three managed to reach the shore.

Baltimore, July 16.--A party of twenty-one young men from this city went down to North Point to spend the afternoon. Arriving there ten of them put out in a row boat to fish. The boat was capsized in the stream, and Joel Lutz, William Finn and Frank Vera were drowned. Lutz was married and had one child.

Detroit, Mich., July 17.--A special to The Journal from Battle Creek, says: Frederick Gleason, aged 20, John Williamson, aged 18, and Louis Burnam, aged 16, were drowned at Wilkes lake while bathing. Gleason got into deep water and the other two were drowned while attempting to save him. The bodies were recovered.

Fort Smith, Ark., July 17.--John Logan, Jesse Morris, Tom Davis, Miss Sallie Jackson, Mrs. Parry, Miss Mary Pettis and Mrs. Cornie Davis, all colored, were drowned while crossing the Arkansas river in a skiff about five miles from this city.