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Show ELEVEN BOYS DROWNED. Wooden Walk Leading to Municipal Bath House Gives Way. Lawrence, Mass. A narrow wooden walk leading over fifteen feet of water to the municipal bath bouse in the Merrlmac river on Monday gate way under the stamping feet of a crowd of Impatient boys and eleven of tbe little fellows were drowned. The boys, ranging In age from 9 to 15 years, were waltng for William B. Blytbe, the bath house keeper, to open tbe door. No one knew how many were In the party, but It la thought that forty Is a conservative estimate. X"e boys were jumping up and down ss they shouted to Blytbe to open up, when tbe supports sup-ports sank and the walk extension dropped like a trap door, rolling the lads Into the river. |