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CApass LTies. On Wednesdyall, about four o'clock in the afternoon, a White man and an In dian pushed off on the Market Place in a dark canoe fire purpose of crossing to Wolfe Island. When they had got nearly opposite Point Freerick, the canoe wa seen to upset and fill. The Indian being an expert swimmets made fir Point Fred erick, but in consequence of intoxication, sunk before he reached the shore ; and be fire a baton which was ging to his fe et could afford him succour. He was a middle aged man, a native of the village of Saint Regis, and was called Peter Tracer. The other man who could not swim, pru dently clung to the canoe, and was saved. Last evening a lamentable accident oc curred at Point Henry. Two men who were employed , sinking the well in the fort, had gone down to prepare for a blast. While thus engaged, and before they could get out of the well again, the fire commu nicated to the powder, and the explosion took place. One unhappy man, by birth an American, was dreadfully mangled, and is not expected to survive. The other, whose name is John Whitelock, was killed on the spot. He was a native of Cum berland, in England, and had not been more than six weeks in the country. He has left a wife and three children in a land of strangers to bewail their heavy loss. The unfortunate and melancholy ac cidents which have sootted occurred to persons attempting to cross the Bay of Quinte in small boats and canoes, fre quently il equipped, sometimes over- loaded, and not always under the man agement of skillful rowers, ought to make the inhabitants who reside on its banks more attentive to these precautions in which their safety is so much concern ed. But as no human prudence or cau tion can at all times prevent accidents.
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Kingston Chronicle
Kingston, Ontario, CA
Fri, Sep 17, 1819
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