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From: Ron Rogers (no email)
Date: Sun Oct 02 2005 - 19:52:54 EDT
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October 2, 2005
Tour Boat Capsizes in Upstate New York; 21 Killed
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 7:27 p.m. ET
LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (AP) -- A boat carrying tourists on a senior citizens'
cruise overturned Sunday on a lake in upstate New York, killing at least 21
people and sending more than two dozen others to a hospital.
Authorities were investigating whether a large passing tour boat created a
wake that caused the accident, Warren County Sheriff Larry Cleveland said.
The 40-foot, glass-enclosed Ethan Allen capsized around 3 p.m. on Lake
George about 50 miles north of Albany in the Adirondack Mountains.
The accident apparently happened so fast that none of the passengers was
able to put on a life jacket, Cleveland said.
Patrol boats that reached the scene within minutes found other boaters
already pulling people from the water. All passengers had been accounted for
within two hours.
Twenty-seven people were taken to a hospital in nearby Glens Falls. All of
the injured were cold and wet, some with broken ribs and some complaining of
shortness of breath. Five people were to be admitted, hospital spokesman
Jason White said.
The 21 bodies were laid out along the shore, and the scene was blocked off
by police with tarps. The Ethan Allen lay at the bottom of the lake in 70
feet of water.
At the time of the accident, the weather was clear and in the 70s. The water
temperature was 68 degrees.
''This was as calm as it gets,'' said Jerry Thornell, a former Lake George
Park Commission patrol officer and a lake enforcement officer for the county
sheriff's department.
Representatives of Shoreline Cruises, which operates the boat, could not
immediately be reached for comment.
The boat's owner, Jim Quirk, whose family has operated Shoreline Cruises for
decades, told the Glens Falls Post-Star: ''It is a tragedy and it's very
unfortunate.''
The boat was carrying a tour group from Canada, Cleveland said. A language
barrier was slowing the process of notifying victims' families.
''Nothing of this magnitude has ever happened,'' state police Superintendent
Wayne Bennett said. ''It's unprecedented.''
As dusk fell, several police boats were on the water, and at least half a
dozen divers were in a small cove on the west side of the lake.
Cleveland said the captain, who was well known and well liked by law
enforcement officials, survived. He was the only crew member aboard.
a.. Copyright 2005 The Associated Press
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