One man died while six other were thrown into the Arkansas river after a rafting accident in Royal Gorge. The accident happened at around 9:40 in the morning, Saturday when water was running at about 2140 cubic feet per second at the time of the incident.
According to Fremont County Coroner Dr. Dorothy Twellman the fifty-two year old Charles H. Bointy's autopsy shows that he died from drowning. The victim was rafting with friends and co-workers when the accident occurred at a rapid known "Wall Banger". The raft reportedly turned over after hitting the wall of the canyon which eventually caused them to be all thrown out from the raft.
Bointy swam about 400 yards where another group of people was rafting. They tried to get him out of the water and when he was finally pulled into a raft he was said to be unconscious. Nurses in the raft tried to revive him with a CPR but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
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