The Daily News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2021-11-30
issued: 1934-06-15
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note: ■— Baer Trims Camera and Wins by Technical K.O. —Pa&e Seven r*U1 (wcV.".'V VOLUMI tt Fruit Growers to Send Two Market Plans Ottawa —Pa__e Six 1RITIIH COLUMBIA. CANADA-FRIDAY MORNINO, JUNI 15, 1IM FIVI CINTI A COPY No. 4T , SEATTLE TO USE FORCE ON STRIKERS HORTON, BID AND MiNNES HAVE CLOSE SHAVE IN DUNCAN Upset in Turbulent Flood and Fight for Life; Gain Shore to Walk Miles Over the Flooded Flats RODEO MAN SUMMONED FOR SCARING STEER On a trip ot several days in the Duncan country for the purpose of appraising a stand* of white pine timber on Howser creeic in the upper Duncan and of investigating the feasibility ol river driving on the lower Duncan river, George Mclnnes, timber operator of Howser, R. E. Horton, manager of the W. W. Powell company, Nelaon and Arthur Baird, manager of the Royal bank, Nelson, had to fight for their lives in the turbulent lower Duncan Wednesday morning when their outboard, rounding a bend, piled up broadside against a great tree trunk that completely spanned the river and swamped lh a matter of seconds, and left them clinging precariously at the surface or under it, to the huge trunk, against which they were swept HORTON UNDER WATER At the point where they were thrown into the water, a smaller tree, tie top portion imbedded in the river bottom and ita root system in the air, held ln place against the foaming flood the giant horizontal cedar, which a week earlier had probably been a growing tree. Mr. Horton was carried usder the deepest, and to the right ot the vertical snag, his hands being seen out of the water clutching the bark of the trunk. Held under the log for a considerable time by the pressure of -the flood, he gradually edged up, until finally his head appeared, and at last he waa able to breathe. On the further eide of the snag, the other two men were hanging on to Uie yard-thick tree trunk by the rough bark, Mr. Baird nearest the snag, his head and shoulders out of water, while further alont Mr. Mclnnes had hia head out. while…
note: The Nelson Daily Miner was purchased by F.J. Deane in April of 1902 and renamed The Daily News. It changed hands again in May 1908 when it began to be printed by the News Publishing Co. managed by W.G. McMorris.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Nelson (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0405287
language: English
lat: 49.493333
long: -117.295833
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Nelson, B.C. : News Publishing Co.
rights: Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art and History: https://touchstonesnelson.ca
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text