Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, July 6, 1990                   TAG: 9007060520
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: New River Valley bureau
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

ANOTHER SWIMMER DROWNS IN NEW RIVER

It was the second drowning in less than a week at the rapid section of the river.

William Whitt of Princeton, W.Va., was pulled from the water by rescue workers about 8 p.m., 2 1/2 hours after his brother-in-law, Carl Sayer, also of West Virginia, saw him go under.

Whitt was pronounced dead at the scene.

Last Friday, a 19-year-old West Virginia man drowned at Shumate Falls while swimming with family and friends.

"It's not going to make people stop. It's been going on for years," said Rodney Freeman of the Giles County Rescue Squad. "They just don't take the river seriously, I guess."

Keywords:
FATALITY