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Canoeists -- paddlers -- 4 of them were also swimmers
Dan Brangan
Gary Condell
Charlie Flitcraft (Flipper)
Rod Hinwood
Chuck Lake
Bob Thomas
The plan was to drive to Port Jervis -- drop off Flipper's MG and continue to Narrowsburg, NY and leave the pickup truck there. We would paddle down the Delaware to Port Jervis and then Flipper and Bob would drive back to get the truck and we would all drive home.
The Morris Chronicle on Jan 24, 1894 ran this account of that horrible weekend. The skaters were not all three together. The brothers were together. The other boy was skating with a friend on another part of the lake.
Mining sand in Downer. Looks like it was a shovel and wheel barrow operation at the time of this photograph. Date of photograph is unknown but seller on eBay said it was when the tracks were owned by the Atlantic City RR. The Atlantic City RR was formed in 1889 from a number of other railroads. A copy of the Wikipedia article on the Atlantic City RR is attached below.