Abréviations utilisées
Date 20 mai 1876
Comté Saint John
Lieu Saint John
Journal The Daily Telegraph
Le langage employé dans les textes est tel qu’il a été transcrit par Daniel F. Johnson à partir des entrées dans les journaux originaux.
On Saturday last 13th inst., a distressing calamity occurred at the little village of Harberville situated on the shore of the Bay of Fundy about 12 miles from Berwick, N.S. About noon, four boys named Edward RAY, Inglis CAREY, Ernest RAY and Lemont MORRIS, age from 12 to 14 years, were playing on a raft in Isaac MORRIS's mill pond, when the raft parted. They were precipitated into the water and before they could be rescued () Edward RAY, age 12 and Inglis CAREY, age 13, sons of Judson RAY and John CAREY, Esqs. were drowned. - Kentville 'Western Chronicle' (see original)