Steve Pokin Springfield News-Leader Published 1:10 p.m. UTC Jul 28, 2018 In Hot Springs the bell tolled 13 times at a service, and many in the community thought it would never again toll for victims of a duck boat incident. But it did, 18 years later. A different bell rang 17 times at a July 22 memorial service at College of the Ozarks. Seventeen people — nine from the same Indianapolis family — drowned when a duck boat operated by a different company, based in Branson, sank on Table Rock Lake during a thunderstorm with winds over 60 mph. Through sorrow and the loss of 30 lives, Hot Springs and Branson are sister cities. They are tourist towns that have suffered the two worst duck boat sinkings in the nation’s history. Mark Gregory, editor of the Record-Sentinel, the daily paper in Hot Springs, recalls the day in 2001 that the owner of the Land & Lake Tours Inc., sold the company’s assets to satisfy a lawsuit brought by the seven families that lost loved ones. On that day, Gregory talked to Kenneth Mascagni, the lawyer representing a mother who had lost her husband and two children. The lawyer told Gregory the lawsuit was not about money. Instead,… Read full this story
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