The Ouachita Telegraph - Two Men and Woman Drown Near Delta
Date: Jul 2000
Submitted by: Lora Peppers <lpeppers@ouachita.lib.la.us>

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The Ouachita Telegraph

Friday, January 29, 1875

Page 2, Column 6

        The Vicksburg Herald of Tuesday says that on Saturday night four

negroes started from Delta to the old Brown & Johnston place, in a skiff,

with a quantity of provisions.  When a short distance from the shore, the

skiff was discovered to be filling rapidly with water.  The negroes, in

endeavoring to make their escape capsized the skiff, drowning William Morton,

Joe Kline and a negro girl named Philis.  The other member of the party,

a negro boy, succeeded in swimming ashore.  The bodies of the persons drowned

had not been recovered at last accounts.



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