Mower County transcript., 1869-12-30
Sad Accident in Newark Men
: Drowned In the Passaic River.

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: AT noon yesterday, an accident occurred
in the Passaic River, near the foot of Mar
ket street, Newark, by the sinking of Q
boat, by which five men were drowned,
and eight others narrowly escaped, in .
half.frozen condition, by swimming ashore.
A large number Of men have for some time
p st been employed in the New Jersey
Railroad Company in the erection of their
new drawbridge across this river at Market
street, which is to form q part. OF the new
SHORTCUT line that is being built for through
trains passing Newark. A party of IRON
workers, from Pit:sburg, were put on the
force in September last toput up the IRON
work of the bridge, and it was this gang
that occupied the boat which was swampei
yesterday.
=, The raising Of the draw was completed
yesterday forenoon. The men stopped
work. gave three cheers, and went to their
boats, designing to 60 to dinner The spot
where they embarked is one hundred and
fifty feet from the shore, but the tide is al
ways strong, and navigation in q small
boat, such as they had by them. is always
dangerous. The boat was q fat -bottomed,
two-oared scow, and thirteen persons took
passage in it to the shore. Soon after they
left the draw they found the high waves
dashing into the boat, and, becoming
alarmed, they rose to their feet, tipped the
slight craft little, when it became imme-
diate}y filled. The men leaped out and
struck out TOR the shore. Five Of their
number drowned. and eight reached the
pier benumbed and half frozen. -
- The search for the bodies was i'm
mediately commenced, and the bodies
were recovered. These were the bodies of
Thomas Griffith, of Pittsburg, young
man twenty-five years of age; Thomas
Kelso, of Philadelphia, aged twenty-four;
William Blatchford, an Englishman, aged
twenty-three; and John Riley, resident
of East Newark, aged thirty years, who
leaves q family; and boy named John
Leonard, residing with his parents in New
ark. sts:s. E.. -. :as ~ =
The'sad accident was witnessed by but
few persons, and those who saw the strug-
giles of the drowning men from the shore
were at too great distance from them. to
render any assistance. MIR. John H. Lam
dell, the proprietor of the sail-loft on the
shore near which the boat filled, procured
a lot of tackling, upon hearing the cries of
the men, and fastened, with few others,
to the rescue of the swimmers. But they
could not be reached, and, as they doated
down with the tide, one by one of the un-
fortunate men, who were less skillful in the
art of swimming than their companions,
threw up their hands and went down.
5.~e The Value of Kiss.
i A year or two ago l dined in San Fran
cisco with the family of a pioneer, and talk
ed with his daughter, q young lady whose
first experience in San Francisco, was an
adventure. though she herself did not re-
member it, as she was only two or three
years old, at the time. Her father said
that, after landing from the ship, they
were walking up the street, q servant lead
ing the party, with the little girl in her
arms. Aud presently a hugo miner,
bearded, belted, nnd bristling with deadly
weapons, just down from long mining cam
paign in the mountains-evidently barred
the way, stopped the servant, and stood
gazing with a face all alive with gratifica-
ton aud astonishment. Then he said, rev.
erently, "Well, if it aint a child!' And
then he snatched little leather sack out
Of his pocket, and said to the servant,
There's hundred and fifty dollars in dust
there, aud III give it to you to lot me kiss
the childn' But see how things change
Sitting at that dinner-table, listening to
that anecdote, if had offered double the
money for kissing tho same child I would
have been refused. Seventeen added years
had far more than doubled the price. .~=
Marie Ttoain.
A NUMBER of New Orleans milkmen were
lately arrested and the contents of theil
cans submitted to scientific test. The
least adultemtion by water was 80 per cent.
and the greatest go, the average being
about So per cert. No examination was
made as to foreign substances, though sew.
eral were found in the course of the analy.
sis. The milkmen were fined from S25 70