Death on the River

The floods in the neighbourhood of Oxford, consequent on the recent heavy rains, have not only caused much damage to crops, garden produce, and the like, and in some cases endangered buildings, but have involved loss of human life. On the same day (Saturday, June 27) that the inquest was held on the body of one of the two undergraduates who had attempted to guide a canoe over the Swollen Thame [sic] between Oxford and Sandford, the Rev. E. T. Pinson, Curate of Cuddesdon Parish, and only recently appointed Hebrew Lecturer in Cuddesdon College, took a number of the choir-boys to the river Thame, and while bathing one of the boys, the son of the schoolmaster and organist, was carried away by the strong stream : the curate immediately swam to his assistance, and though Mr. Pinson was a good swimmer both he and the boy were drowned. The body of the boy was eventually found forced by the current beneath a quantity of drift wood, and a few hours later that of Mr. Pinson was found some distance down the stream. The sad event has naturally cast a gloom over both the Parish and the College.