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Local River Tragedies
Part Of Sacramento's On-Going History
By Steve Wiegand
Sacramento Bee
(Published July 27, 1998)
Over at the Old City Cemetery .
. . they regularly conduct safaris through Sacto's past, via cemetery tours.
Dr. Bob La Perriere says members of the cemetery committee were conducting
a tour that included the grave sites of two 12-year-old boys who died in
1883, when someone thought about the macabre similarities to recent drowning
tragedies.
So they did a little research and
found a 116-year-old Bee story about the boys: "Now must be chronicled
the deaths of three more in the deceptive currents of the (Sacto) river . . .
The Sacramento is a dangerous stream, for the current often changes on account
of the shifting sands and is very swift." Proving that in some ways, the river
hasn't changed much over the past century -and that
as a species, we are pretty slow. Reprinted from
the Sacramento Bee's
www.sacbee.com.
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