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Show ' ' Girl Runs Thirty-Mile Rapids in Skin Boat Edmonton, Alta. A wireless message mes-sage received from Fort Simpson, Northwest Territory, by the Edmonton Journal told how the flfteen-year-old daughter of Thomas Smith, Yukon prospector, was carried 30 miles down the swift currents of the Upper Laird river in a skin boat without oars. Her father had been drowned when the craft capsized In Hell's Gate rapids. Struggling during the SO-mlle ride to keep t-he canoe from crashing, the girl finally managed to bring It into an eddy and. reached shore. She then fashioned a pair of oars with an old handsaw, which was fastened in the boat, and rowed another 30 miles to Sutherland's camp. I The prospector. n elderly man, and I his daughter left Old Fort Laird, In IJvitish Columbia, for the Lower Laird I river, in the boat. When the.craft cap-; cap-; sized in Hell's Gate rapids, throwing ' father and daughter Into the water, I Smith, shouted to his daughter to cling to the boat, while he attempted to keep 1 afloat. The girl had gone down twl'ce when : she grasped a rope attached to the boat. She tried to rescue her father throwing him the only oar in the boat but he sank and sha did not see bin: i again. |