Show its WENT OVER RAPIDS SEVEN MEN ARE DROWNED Payette Tragedy Occurs on Payette River In Idaho Nine Men Out of a Party Escaping Death of Sixteen Boise Idaho While attempting to make a lauding above tho rapids In Payette river about twelve miles from Garden valley seven men wore drowned Tho two boats which thc > wero using were carried over tho rapIds rap-Ids and swamped The other nine occupants oc-cupants of tho boats had a hard battlo for their lives but managed to reach shore The drowned men are Bert Ure Mel Curtis JOQ Hamilton Tom Mo Highland Frank Fitzgerald Davo Mlllan Joe Boden f So far as can be learned all are unmarried un-married men The force of sixteen men In the two boats were engaged in a log drive for tho Idaho White Pino After portaging a I Mining company large fall tho first boat attempted to land and tlo up for the night at tho head of one of tho rapids It failed to make the landing and tho boat was swept down The second boat followed fol-lowed the first the occupants thinking their comrades had passed the rapids safely and were also swamped by the torrent |