Canoe Upsets Drowning Two

Article taken from the Lima News October 5, 1931.

Portsmouth, Oct 5

Edward J. Scott, 21, glass cutter, and Carrie Darien, 17, junior in Portsmouth High school, drowned about midnight last night when their canoe capsized in the Ohio River on the Kentucky side.

The couple had been canoeing with four other persons.  The others said they heard cries for help but when they reached the canoe the couple had disappeared.  The bodies were recovered today.