1.   Sir John, men have drowned.

2.   The men drowned when a freak wave sank their boat.

3.   Three times he seen his men drown.

4.   The man drowned after falling from a white water raft on a river also in California.

5.   Also, in Orange County, authorities said a man apparently drowned while swimming in a rain-swollen pond near Vidor, close to the Louisiana border.

6.   In Orange County, authorities said a man apparently drowned while swimming in a rain-swollen pond near Vidor, close to the Louisiana border.

7.   In Rapid City, S.D., eight homeless men have drowned in a trout stream in less than two years, including three this year.

8.   In June, two Mexican men drowned while trying to cross the river from Matamoros to Brownsville.

9.   Just a week earlier, a man had drowned there while canoeing in a rough tide.

10.   One man drowned in the flood here, having apparently walked along the railroad tracks into town one night to check on his property.