BLENHEIM.
; '"'■ ' Monday. A narrow escape from drowning occurred to-day to Wilooeks, Bruce and Hemus, employees of the Telegraph Department, who went to bathe in the river Opawa. Wilcocks could not swim, and attached himself to the bank by a flax rope and jumped in. The rope Woke asunder^juid lie was nearly drowned. Bruce, from some distance higher up the stream, saw what had occurred, and swam to the rescue. He seized the drowning man, and; held him up with one hand whilst clutching the bank with the other. Hemus came up to assist, and eventually the man was brought to land black in the face and insensible, but he subsequently recovered. Bruce's pluck and courage are much to be praised.
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3103, 28 January 1879, Page 2
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