August 8, 1988 - Rafting Fatality at Tana River Canyon

Tana River Canyon, Tana River,

Larry Holmstrom, 44, executive producer of ''Jay Hammond's Alaska'' program, his 21-year-old daughter, Maria, and Ronald Eagle, 31, a cameraman, drown their 16-foot river raft flipped over in ''fairly serious white water,'' while taping a television show with former Gov. Jay Hammond.

They and a fourth member of the party were thrown into the water. The fourth person, Donna Claus, was pulled back into the raft uninjured, said Vaughn Baker, a National Park Service ranger at Glennallen. He described the accident as ''a freaky thing,'' adding, ''But it was fairly serious white water.''

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