CROGHAN, LEWIS CO. -- A 14-year-old boy visiting from England drowned Friday afternoon in the Beaver River, in the Lewis County Town of Croghan. It's located about about an hour north of Utica, in an area commonly referred to as Double Eddy.
State Police say 14-year-old Mckinley Day, of England, was with his mother and younger brother visiting Kenneth and Tina Zahr of Belfort. Police say Day was swimming in a quiet pool downstream of the rapids below Taylorville Dam with his brother and Mr. Zehr. That's when he started calling for help.
Off-duty Idaho State trooper Thomas Wright happened to be in the area vacationing and heard the calls for help. He and his family were tubing in the rapids upstream of where the drowning happened. He and his niece, Beth Wright, a trained life guard, found the boy in about eight feet of water. Efforts to revive him were unsuccessful and Day was pronounced dead at Lewis County General Hospital.
