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DUMBARTON HERALD 29 July 1869

MELANCHOLY BOAT ACCIDENT - EIGHT PERSONS DROWNED (continued)

Malcolm McCrae and his party reached the shore in safety, and all retired to their respective homes, believing that their friends would have reached the land about the same time as themselves; but, as unfortunately turned out, such was not the case. Upon arriving home Malcolm McCrae retired to his bed, and was soon fast asleep. About two o'clock, however, he was aroused by hearing his father knocking at the door, and inquiring if he had had seen his brother and sister and the other members of their family, who were known to have been in the other boat. Upon learning that they had not arrived, Malcolm McCrae at once arose, and having dressed, he along with his father quickly launched a boat in the river, and proceeded in quest of them. The son suggested that after he had parted with the other boat the company seated in her might have returned to Port Glasgow and upon this slender supposition they proceeded across the river to the town, but no trace of them could be found. They then returned towards Cardross, and when about a quarter of a mile from the shore they espied through the grey morning light a boat floating keel uppermost. They at once approached it and discovered that it was the boat in which their relatives had left Port-Glasgow. > more [6]