Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1894 — COXEYITES DROWNED. [ARTICLE]

COXEYITES DROWNED.

Twenty or More Lose Their Lives by a Boat Capsizing. A Brighton, Colo., dispatch, June 8, says: Twenty-five of the Coxeyites who set sail from Denver are as the result of the upsetting of their boat. It is thought that about twenty are drowned. Dead bodies can be seen on the sandbars and lodged in trees, but cannot now be recovered. The number or names of the Coxeyites drowned In the attempt to navigate the Platte river cannot bo told. The river was a raging torrent yesterday. and many boats were wrecked at the bridges. Twenty nine boats, containing 185 men, passed Henderson island bridge Only twenty, with less than 100 men, reached Brighton. Some boats were deserted, their occupants taking to the road. On the McKay bridge several men were drowned. At the Henderson island bridge 1 twenty-one men were in the water at one time, but were rescued with ropes. Of one boat containing eight, six are said to have been lost. Most of the bodies have been washed down stream. Many of the Coxeyites believe that from fourteen to twenty men were drowned.