BRANSON MO NEWS: Ginger Rough, IndyStar
Published 9:10 p.m. ET July 20, 2018 | Updated 7:20 a.m. ET July 21, 2018CLOSE
Amateur video captured at least one struggling duck boat amid severe storm conditions on Table Rock Lake Thursday. Officials have blamed the weather for a duck boat accident on the lake that killed at least 17 people. (July 20)
APNine members of the Coleman family from Indianapolis, Indiana, were killed Thursday in the duck boat accident on Table Rock Lake in Branson, Missouri.(Photo: Courtesy: Ingrid Coleman Douglas)It was supposed to be a joyful family vacation. An Indianapolis grandmother, spending time with her children and grandchildren.And it ended in tragedy.A sudden storm blew across Table Rock Lake in the tourist hot spot of Branson, Missouri, Thursday night. It capsized a Duck Tour amphibious boat and killed 17 people on the land-water craft.Nine of those victims represented three generations of a loving Indianapolis-area family.The deaths and identities of the family members — including four children under the age of 10 — were confirmed by IndyStar via family members Friday evening.”They were very loved,” said Ingrid Coleman Douglas in a telephone interview.The victims included her two uncles, aunt, cousins and their children. “It’s a huge family on all sides. It’s unimaginable. I would never have thought I would have lost this number of people this way.”Coleman Douglas said the victims included her uncles Horace “Butch” Coleman and Irving Raymond Coleman; Horace Coleman’s wife, Belinda Coleman; her cousins, Angela Coleman and Glenn Coleman; Angela’s 2-year-old son Maxwell; Glenn’s two sons Evan and Reece; and his 1-year-old daughter, Arya.Glenn’s wife, Tia Coleman, and Angela’s older son, whose name has not been released, survived the accident, Coleman Douglas said.”They were on vacation,” Ingrid said in the phone interview. “This is something they liked to do …
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