Abbreviations used
Date January 4 1870
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper The Morning Freeman
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 despatch of the 'Telegraph' announces that Friday afternoon, a boat left Charlottetown, P.E.I. containing Mrs. CAHILL, John COCHRANE, and Thomas HALLORAN. They intended to cross North River, but the boat was upset in a heavy gale and swamped, all hands being drowned. On Saturday morn., the body of a woman, believed to be Mrs. CAHILL was found on shore. The bodies of the others had not been recovered.