Sheffield Daily Telegraph, Saturday 15 November 1884

Exciting Incident on the Don at Denaby

On Thursday afternoon Jonathan Guest, Mark Blackburn, and George Shaw, employed at Thrybergh Hall, were loading wood. To get to their work they had to cross the Don.

They had boarded a flat and worked themselves half way across, when an exclamation from Guest caused the other men, who were at one end of the flat, to move rapidly in the other direction. They were, however, too late. The craft capsized, and they were immersed in the water.

Guest and Blackburn, after a hard struggle, made their way to the shore, but Shaw was in imminent danger of drowning, the water being nearly twenty feet deep. A man named Mawson, who resides at Kilnhurst, was attracted to the spot, gallantly plunged into the water and rescued the man.