People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1894 — DROWNED AT A FORD. [ARTICLE]

DROWNED AT A FORD.

Ex-County Commissioner Parratt, Wife and Children Perish Near Portsmouth. Portsmouth, 0., Aug. 28.—Word has reached here of the drowning-of four persons 12 miles north of this village. Adam A. Parratt, ex-county commissioner, and his wife and three children riding in a spring wagon, attempted to ford tilt Scioto river, it being very low, but the team struck a sinkhole and all the occupants of the wagon were drowned except a 12-yenr-old boy, who managed to get to shore.