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Trent Frozen 1895
Gainsborough News 1895,
Ice accident on the trent ,yesterday as three men were crossing the Trent in there boat belonging to Mr George Wells, through a passage cut in the Ice.
The solidity of the Ice having been sapped by the tides,and when in the middle of the river a large section of floating Ice came down upon the boat, Mr Gleadell realised the danger and a rope was thrown across the Ice, as near the boat as possible.
One of the men in a fright leaped out of the boat on to the Ice, and scrambled on to a packet boat moored close to hand, the other man seized the rope and was pulled on to the Ice.
The boat overwhelmed by the weight of the Ice shortly went to the bottom of the Trent.
Trent Frozen 1895
Gainsborough News 1895,
Ice accident on the trent ,yesterday as three men were crossing the Trent in there boat belonging to Mr George Wells, through a passage cut in the Ice.
The solidity of the Ice having been sapped by the tides,and when in the middle of the river a large section of floating Ice came down upon the boat, Mr Gleadell realised the danger and a rope was thrown across the Ice, as near the boat as possible.
One of the men in a fright leaped out of the boat on to the Ice, and scrambled on to a packet boat moored close to hand, the other man seized the rope and was pulled on to the Ice.
The boat overwhelmed by the weight of the Ice shortly went to the bottom of the Trent.