12/27/2022 0 Comments Stone mountain duck boats![]() ![]() Authorities found seven dead passengers trapped inside the boat when they recovered it, four of which were pinned to the underside of the canopy, according to the Star. The Miss Majestic duck boat was carrying 21 passengers when it sank in 1999 in Lake Hamilton, the Star reported. EDT July 20: Stone County Sheriff Doug Rader said Friday morning that authorities recovered four more bodies after a duck boat capsized in southwest Missouri, KSMU reported, bringing the death toll from Thursday's incident to 17.įederal agency warned about danger of duck boat canopies before Table Rock tragedy - The Kansas City Star July 20, 2018 Words cannot convey how profoundly our hearts are breaking," the statement said. "Thank you for your support, and we ask that your thoughts and prayers be with the families during this time." "This incident has deeply affected all of us. In a statement posted on Facebook, employees of Ride the Ducks Branson said the business would be closed "while we support the investigation, and to allow time to grieve for the families and the community." Stone County Sheriff Doug Rader said earlier Friday that the boat's captain survived. Seventeen people died, including Williams, and 14 others were injured Thursday when the duck boat capsized in Table Rock Lake, according to authorities. ![]() EDT July 20: Branson Mayor Karen Best told The Associated Press that Bob Williams, the man who was driving the Ride the Ducks boat that sunk Thursday in a southwest Missouri lake, was a "great ambassador for Branson" who "was at every event." I would never have thought I would have lost this number of people this way," she said.ĩ members of one family died in the Branson duck boat accident, according to the Missouri governor's office - USA TODAY July 20, 2018 "They were very loved," Ingrid Coleman Douglas said in a telephone interview with the Star.Ĭoleman Douglas said the victims included two of her uncles, cousins and their children. The Indianapolis Star reported that the four children killed in the accident were all under the age of 10. "We just lost some wonderful people," she said. ![]() The Coleman family had traveled to Branson for their annual road trip, according to The New York Times, which interviewed Carolyn Coleman.Ĭoleman said she lost two of her brothers-in-law and that three generations of the family died in the accident, including four young children, the Times reported. EDT July 20: A summer vacation ended in tragedy for nine members of an Indiana family, along with eight other tourists, killed when a duck boat capsized Thursday evening on a lake in Branson, Missouri. "My great nieces and nephews now have no grandparents," Karen Abbott, William Bright's sister, told WDAF. WDAF reports that the couple had three children, 16 grandchildren and had been married for 45 years. William and Janice Bright from Higginsville, Missouri, near Kansas City, were also identified as victims in the crash. WYUkHckUvm- Stephanie Sharp July 21, 2018 This is a picture of Lance at the pulpit that’s circulating on social media. According to church members’s Facebook posts, Steve Smith and Lance Smith, 15, are from Osceola. ![]() #BREAKING: 2 Arkansans died on the duck boat in Branson. ![]()
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