A shocking event took place off Parrsboro, N.S. on Tuesday night which resulted in the death of Frank H. FLETCHER s/o Capt. D. FLETCHER of Masstown, near Truro. Capt. Fletcher and his son were coming across the bay on Tuesday eve. in a boat laden with 40 barrels of apples, and when off Partridge Island at the head of the Bay, owing to the rough water, the boat was swamped and filled. They drifted down past West Bay and their cries attracted the attention of those on board the barque "Carl Linck". A boat was sent from the barque in pursuit of the voices, although nothing could be seen. The swamped boat drifted down the bay with the ebb and up with the flood and on Wednesday morn. wa sighted off Brookville by the barque "Freia", Capt. Hauff, which had left West Bay that morn. The boy had died in the meantime and Capt. Fletcher was too far gone to make a signal so that it was only by accident that those on board the barque saw their condition. The barque's boat took father and son to the shore at Brookville where the son's body was left on the beach and the father taken to the nearest house where he soon revived. The deceased was 14 years of age.