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Show i. Eight Drowned in British Columbia VICTORIA, B. C, Match 20 (iu:i I'rovincinl police headquai-ters headquai-ters were advised ciglit persons, all believed members of the same family, were drowned, and several sev-eral families marooned or homeless, home-less, when ice in the East Pine river, 30 miles from Dawson creek in the Pence River district, broke up early today. Only meagre details of the tt agedy were flashed by police wctek'ss to Victoria. Phone connection between Dawson Daw-son Creek and the isolated East Pine river settlement to the west was washed out. |