A WEDDING ADVENTURE.
An extraordinary adventure happened to. a wedding party near Nerac, the home of President Fallieres. The bride and bridegroom and forty gucst6 were driving from the church to a village six miles distant, where the wedding breakfast was to be held. On their way they were overtaken by tho waters of the flooded Garonne, and their carriages were literally "shipwrecked." The coachman who was driving the bridal carriage whipped up his horses, and .tried to get through the water which was rolling across a field- A tr,ee floating by killed one of. tho horses, and the other _ was drowned, but' the carriage, with the bride and bridegroom in it, floated. Tho bridegroom jumped out of tho carriage into tho water, bidding his bride have conrago, and swam for help. By this time all the guests, ten of thorn in carts drawn by oxen, were moro or less in dangor of their lives. The .bridegroom rescued his wife on the back of n horse, and after three hours' danger the entire party reached dry land, but there were twenty-two* on one side of tho rolling flood and twenty on the other, and tho wedding breakfast was eventually held without ' the bride and bridegroom.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 81, 30 December 1907, Page 10
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205A WEDDING ADVENTURE. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 81, 30 December 1907, Page 10
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