From the New York Courier and Enquirer.


SAD CATASTROPHE.
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The following is extract from private letter re-
ceived yesterday We trust that the details Of the
sad accident recorded will prove less lamentable than
are here reported


Burlington, vt Sept. 27, 1886


very sad accident occurred upon the Lake at this
place on Thursday last. 1t seems three young men
named Cheney, Thompson and Connolly, went out
in a small boat in the afternoon and that toward.
evening the boat by some means was overturned. -
They succeeded in getting upon it and chung to it
though in great distress and with great difficulty from
o'clock until IL, when young Cheney, being over
by the cold and fatigue, died. and the body was
ashed to the boat by Connolly, who was much older
and could endure more than either Of the Others


Thompson, who was but boy, become deranged
from the hardships he suffered and jumped into the
water, from which he was taken once or twice by
Connolly, who held him to the boat until he perished
in his The sole survivor of this little company
ashed his dead body also to the boat and drifted
about the lake until morning, when he was washed
ashore and taken up insensible He was, OF course
Immediately cared for, and it is thought he will re
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