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FatalityOutcome: FatalDrowning

Fatality — Mount Washington, ~1927

·Mount Washington·Jefferson Brook

Woodsman running trap lines

Harriman, a woodsman, drowned in Jefferson Brook in the northern Whites during a flood in November 1927 while running his trap lines.

Contributing factors

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