FATAL ACCIDENT.
A lad named David Travers was drowned in the bay this afteraoen. The deceased was employed at Reid and Gray's fou .dry, and with four fellow apprentices, named severally Frederick Applegate, Wm. Bevin, Geo. Skerritt, and Join *Jdmonds, obtain edtheloan of a boat in the forenoon, having obtained a few hours' leave, while some machinery in the factory was being repaired. They sailed the boat round the bay, and were off the beacon near Grassy Point on their return home when the accident occurred. Travers was seated on the boat's side when the sail, jibbing, struck and knoeked him ovelboard. Tiiose on board say not more than a minute could have elapsed ere Applegate jumped in after deceased, and tried, without success, to catch hold of him. The others saw him swim away from the boat, as if intending to try to reach the shone, and sink before the boat, which ha&put about,, could get near him. Deceased was sixteen years of age, and his mother resides at Up to three o'dloek'the l police,, who are put dragging about the spit, had not recovered theoody, ... ~..,.,. ~,.; ~...
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Evening Star, Issue 4255, 16 October 1876, Page 3
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187FATAL ACCIDENT. Evening Star, Issue 4255, 16 October 1876, Page 3
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