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! The following horrid tragedy, took place
at Wilbor, near Kingston, three weeks ago.
In the evening cry of fire was heard and
the fire was ascertained 10 proceed from a
canal boat at the dock. A woman near by.
says the Hudson Washingtonan, who was
crying for help and wringng her hands, said
there was man and two boys in the cabin,
from which the fire was issuing. The door
OF the cabin was fastened inside, and boy
was knocking against the outside with a
stick of wood. The narrator jumped on
board, seized the stick of wood and stove
through into the cabin. There amidst the
fire crouched man upon the foor-he
rushed in and seized the man by the wrists.
lie was so burned that the flesh of his
hands stripped oil, and McDawson fell
backward into the water in the bottom
OF the boat outside the cabin, and the poor
man fell back into the fire. He rushed in
again and dragged out the old man, and again
and brought out one Of the boys. Ascer-
tanning where the other boy was he went
into the cabin again, got hold of the boy,
but meeting some obstruction he could not
rescue him. AT this juncture the captain of
the boat arrived and rescued the boy through
the companion way. The old man literally
roasted alive, his head and back low down
burnt TO crisp. He died in "a hours |
One of the boys Las since died. The other
is getting better, and will probably live, but
will carry the marks of this fire to his grave.
The old man being intoxicated had careless
ly fastened candle with a knife to the side
of his berth, from which the fire origina-
ted