A heart-rending tragedy occurred in the Kentucky river, just below the mouth of Silver Creek, between this and Jessamine counties on last Monday night.

Mr. John Sanders, his wife and three children, who reside in this county, had been over in Jessamine county to visit the parents of Mr. Sanders. About 9 o'clock they left for home. Mr. Sanders carried a lantern. Upon reaching the river he placed the lantern in the canoe in front of him, and started across.

One report says the lantern went out leaving such apparent darkness that Mr. Sanders could not see where he was rowing, and another says that the lantern so blinded him that he could not see. Be that as it may, the canoe ran into a chute, which beads immediately below the crossing, and capsized. The mother and three children were instantly drowned, but Mr. Sanders escaped.

Mrs. Sanders was a daughter of the late Mitchell Perkins of this county, and was twenty-five or thirty years old. The oldest child was six or eight years old, the youngest a baby of twelve months, and the other one was between those ages.

The crossing where this fearful accident occurred, has for many years been used by a neighboring church on occasions of baptisms. A large crowd of men, women and children assembled there on Tuesday, but not one of the bodies could be found.

LATER - The bodies have all been found. The children were all close together and not far from the mother. It is now learned that the canoe did not get into the chute, but struck a pile of drift, and Sanders thinking it the shore, stepped out upon it. It sank with him, and in some way the canoe turned over with the results already stated.