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Show HURLED OVER CLIFF; LIVES Forester, Legs Broken In Rock Slide Swims Gorge 200 Feet Below. Red Pass Junction, B. C, Canada. J. Bedford Kdwards. forest ranker, wounded In the World war, was caught In a rock ude oi the brink' of a 200-foot cliff, and with both less broken was hurled Into the swirling waters of the Frnser river below, while members of a section gang stood on the cli.r powerless t help him. By some miracle Kdwurit" succeeded In paddling his way to a slmllow spot In the river and was hauled up onto the llff wlih a roje. Kdwards. employed by. the British I'oIumMa forestry department, was surveying the territory devastated by n forest tire when cnnxhl! In the slide. Joseph McOolg, station opera '.or at tho Junction, heard the ronr of the s:de while strolling nearby, and called the etlon crew when he saw Kdwards fctrugL'ltng In the river below. Kdwards Kd-wards was to have been married this week, and his bride had arrived from Inland. |