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Show Dog Saved Lives of Family. Extraordinary sagacity on tho part of a canal-boat dog saved the lives of a family of tbreo on board at midnight. mid-night. They were asleep In their cabin bunks on a barge lying oft Whcelock, near Saudbach, In Cheshire, Ches-hire, England, when the man In charge of tho boat, John Meredith, was awak-1 ened by the animal springing on the I bed and barking. Meredith, still In a' somnolent state, knocked tho animal off, but in doing so discovered thero was a big rush of water, and that the boat was fast sinking. The terrified' man aroused his wife and child, and, the threo only Just mnnaged to; scramblo from the cabin and gain the; embankment when the boat sank,! Meredith being compelled to wade' through water which was up to his waist, with the child In his arms. Iti Is believed that tho foundering was, due to a heavy load of iron bars, which caused a portion of the bottom! of the barge to give way. Hundreds! of persons visited tho spot to see thO bed clothing, pots, pans, and other domestic articles floating on tho water. wa-ter. Later the boat was raised after her cargo had been romoved. |