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Show BOATS WENT OVER RAPIDS SEVEN MEN ARE DROWNED' Tragedy Occurs on Payette River In. Idaho, Nine Men Out of a Party of Sixteen Escaping Death. Boise, Idaho. Whllo attempting to mako a landing nbovo tho rapids In Payottc river, about twelvo mllos from Garden valley, seven men wero drowned. Tho two boats which thc wero using were carried over tho rap-Ids rap-Ids and swamped. Tho other nine occupants oc-cupants of tho boats had a hard battlo for their lives, but managed to reach shore. Tho drowned men nro: Bert Uro, Mel Curtis, Joo Hamilton, Tom Highland, Frank Fitzgerald, Davo McMillan, Mc-Millan, Joo Bodcn. So far as can be learned all aro unmarried un-married men. Tho forco of slxtcon. men in tho two boats wero engaged in a log drive for tho Idaho White Pino Mining company. After portaging n. largo fall, tho first boat attempted to land and tlo up for the night at tho head of ono of tho rapids. It failed to mako tho landing nnd tho boat was swept down. Tho second boat followed fol-lowed tho first, tho occupants thinking tholr comrades had passed the rapids, safely, nnd wero also swamped by tho torrent. ' |