River Rescue at Pasco
Captain Brown of the Hanford Flyer saves a drowning child from the Columbia River.
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Diving headfirst into the Columbia through a pile of driftwood, with apparently no thought of his own danger, young Captain Brown of the Hanford Flyer heroically rescued a youngster at the Pasco dock last Tuesday from a watery grave. The drowning boy was sinking for the third time when young Brown heard the cries for help and plunged to his aid.
“Diving headfirst into the Columbia through a pile of driftwood, with apparently no thought of his own danger”
The Columbia River was the lifeblood and the primary highway for the White Bluffs-Hanford valley in 1916. While the river remains, the geography of these docks is lost, as the original town sites are largely submerged or abandoned following the development of the Hanford Site.
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