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. Philadelphia Duck Tours is operated by Ride The Ducks, a company that operates similar tourist trips on the amphibious vehicles out of other locations around the country, including San Francisco Newport, Kentucky Seattle and Stone Mountain Park, Georgia, according to the company's website.#BREAKING: 2 Arkansans died on the duck boat in Branson. They navigate city streets as well as local waterways. The Arkansas boat was owned by White & Yellow Duck Sightseeing Tours.ĭuck boats, made famous as landing craft in World War II, are used by many local tour providers in the U.S. No one on the boat was wearing life preservers at the time. In 1999, a Duck Boat took on water and sank in Lake Hamilton in Hot Springs, Arkansas, killing 13 of the 20 people on board.

'There were people all over we could see all these orange life vests.' 'We were not even halfway over when they said there was somebody overboard and we were going to get them,' Ronna said. Terri Ronna, 45, of Oakland, N.J., told the AP that she was on a ferry going from Camden, N.J., across the river to Philadelphia when the captain announced that there was someone overboard from another ship and that they were going to rescue him.

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