Abbreviations used
Date January 4 1894
County Westmorland
Place Moncton
Newspaper The Times
The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.
Steeves Settlement, Jan. 1st - News of a drowning accident has reached us from Pennsylvania, in which two young men from near here, lost their lives by the upsetting of a boat. The unfortunate men are James HULIS and Alonzo McPHEE. They in company with Theodore WILSON, formerly of Little River (Albert Co.), his son and a man named SMITH, while attempting to cross a river, the boat upset. Smith was saved by clinging to the boat and Wilson swam to shore, taking his son with him, a distance of 30 rods, while Hulis and McPhee, failing to reach the boat and unable to swim, were drowned.