When he sank, his wife seemed to be there in the water beside him, telling him to keep his head, that if he could hold out the men would drown and release him.

There was something he wanted to tell his wife, but he could not think clearly for the roaring in his ears.

Suddenly he remembered what it was.

He caught his breath, and then she let him go.
The work of recovering the dead went on all day and all the following night.

By the next morning forty-eight bodies had been taken out of the river, but there were still twenty missing.