The Times carried the same report on the 28 Apr but included the fact that their correspondent had not been able to obtain the names at the time of writing. I suspect the Australian report was copied from that. J On 8 Jan 2010, at 22:18, Janet wrote: > "A fatal accident of a very disastrous kind occurred on the Solway > Firth on Sunday afternoon, April 26, 1868. Five young men, > employed at Annan, set out from that port in a small boat, rigged > up with a sail, and crossed the Solway Firth to Bowness, on the > Cumberland shore. They reached their destination in safety, and in > the afternoon set out for home with the ebb tide. They had not > proceeded halfway across when it was observed from the shore that > their mast had got wrong and the sail swayed over the side. > Shortly afterwards the boat capsized, and all the five men were > thrown into the sea. Three of them sank almost immediately, being > quite unable to resist the powerful force of the ebbing tide, and > were drowned, but the other two clung to the overturned boat, which > drifted down to the railway bridge which crosses the Firth below > Bowness. There, it is conjectured, the anchor dragged against the > piles of the viaduct, for the boat swung around. The two men, who > were stil! > l clinging to it, made a desperate effort to save themselves, but > the boat filled with water and sank, carrying with it the only two > survivors of the pleasure party, and thus increasing the number of > deaths to five." > > Extracted from the Maryborough Chronicle, Qld., Australia dated > July 23, 1868 > > NOTE: There is no mention of any names in this article. > Janet > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DUMFRIES- > GALLOWAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message