Abbreviations used
Date March 30 1874
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper The Daily Telegraph
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.
A Moncton correspondent sends the following on Saturday. The boat in which the men at Hopewell Cape (Albert Co.) were drowned was not picked up until today when it was discovered by Dawson STEEVES of Dover and brought ashore bottom up. Mr. CRAWFORD, one of those drowned was a son of James CRAWFORD, stair builder of (St. John). He was unmarried.