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CANOE UPSET IN THE RIVER
Two of the Occupants Couldn’t Swim
-Narrow Escape from Drowning
[People’s Press, 21 June 1910]
A close call from death by drowning was experienced by a party of three in the Welland river about four miles above here on Sunday.
Byrne Eastman, Clarence Page and Alan Michener of Welland were out in the latter’s canoe. It seems neither Eastman nor Page could swim, nor were they used to riding in a canoe, and when they were about in the centre of the river, over went the canoe and all three went into the water. As soon as Michener noticed the other two couldn’t swim, he assisted them and got them ahold of the canoe, and was swimming around to push the canoe into shore, when young Eastman lost his head and grabbed him by the neck. Both went down, and Michener loosened his friend’s hold of his neck, and locked his legs around his neck, and when he came up, he brought Eastman up too.
About this time Henry Carl and Hugh Graham of Welland, who were paddling around in a punt, reached them and they hauled the two in the boat.
It was a narrow escape and young Michener is to be congratulated on the coolness and courage he displayed throughout.
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