GRIM TRAGEDY NARROWLY AVERTED
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Received Monday, 9.30 p.m. NEW YORK, June 2. SAvollen by incessant week-end rains, Pennsylvania rivers which- barely suhsided 'from last week's fioods, again b.urst their banks, drowned two and inundated scores of' homes. Gi'im tragedy was narrowly averted when 33 Cub Scouts were ■ marooned 011 a tiny island in tlie swollen Perkiomen Iiiver. Roeal firemen strnng a 100 yards rope lifeline lietween a trce on tlie island and a shore telegraph pole, thus enabiing a small boat to be pulled backwards and forwards, saving all bar one boy who was drowned when the boat capsized.
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 June 1946, Page 5
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