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10-02-2005, 02:52 PM
N.Y. Tour Boat Capsizes, Killing 19 People
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20051002/D8D057QO0.html
Oct 2, 5:40 PM (ET)
LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (AP) - Nineteen people were killed when a small tour boat carrying 47 people flipped over Sunday on a lake in upstate New York, the county sheriff told the Glens Falls Post-Star.
Warren County Sheriff Larry Cleveland told the paper the Ethan Allen capsized when another tour boat passed near it and swamped it. The Ethan Allen sank, he said.
The 40-foot, glass-enclosed tour boat flipped around 4 p.m. on Lake George about 50 miles north of Albany in the Adirondack Mountains.
The weather was clear, calm and in the 70s Sunday afternoon.
Representatives of Shoreline Cruises, which operates the boat, could not immediately be reached for comment.
By 5 p.m., all the passengers had been accounted for, Cleveland told the paper.
The passengers were part of a senior citizen's cruise on the lake.
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20051002/D8D057QO0.html
Oct 2, 5:40 PM (ET)
LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (AP) - Nineteen people were killed when a small tour boat carrying 47 people flipped over Sunday on a lake in upstate New York, the county sheriff told the Glens Falls Post-Star.
Warren County Sheriff Larry Cleveland told the paper the Ethan Allen capsized when another tour boat passed near it and swamped it. The Ethan Allen sank, he said.
The 40-foot, glass-enclosed tour boat flipped around 4 p.m. on Lake George about 50 miles north of Albany in the Adirondack Mountains.
The weather was clear, calm and in the 70s Sunday afternoon.
Representatives of Shoreline Cruises, which operates the boat, could not immediately be reached for comment.
By 5 p.m., all the passengers had been accounted for, Cleveland told the paper.
The passengers were part of a senior citizen's cruise on the lake.