Abbreviations used
Date May 18 1888
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.
Fredericton - May 17 - Hugh McINTYRE arrived in town about noon today bringing particulars of a sad drowning accident which occurred this morn. near the Mitchell boom several miles below the city, Wm K. ROXBOROUGH, age about 20 years and a young man named Fred WISELEY were at the boom house. Wiseley wanted to reach the main road in order to get to his home a mile or so below Fredericton. The backwater of the freshet had converted the meadow into quite a deep lake. Roxborough volunteered to row him across the water in an old skiff. Both got into the boat and had almost reached shore when the skiff sank. Wiseley was rescued in a very exhausted condition by a young man named MITCHELL. Roxborough sank with the boat and was seen no more alive. His body was found this afternoon and Coroner Perley of Sunbury Co. was summoned. Roxborough was time keeper of the Mitchell boom and had been in the Boom Company's employ for the past two seasons. He was a son of Wm ROXBOROUGH of South Bay (St. John)