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TEEN LIVES LOSTii
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The Kingston, Canada, News of Monday
last. gives the following particulars Of sad
catastrophe which happened on Saturday the
18th inst. by which II lives were lost.


"Some % or "a workmen were engaged on
the Government defences, being constructed
on Cedar Island, opposite Kingston, crowded
into row boat for the purpose of returning
from the Island. There was heavy sea at
the time and when about the middle of the
Channel wave struck the boat and she was
Immediately upset, precipitating the men into
the river. Six men, only, were saved The
remaining seventeen persisted! Nearly all Of
them were married with large families depen-
dant on them for support 1t is stated that
seventy-two children have been deprived of
paernal protection and support by this catas
trophe