New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-01
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
DROWNED ON A PLEASURE TRIP.


ssoRy OF ONE OF TWO SURVIVORS OF PARTY OF
u SEVEN WHO WENT ON YACHTING EXCURSION
y UP THE SOUND.
William H. Palmer, sole survivor of the party of
young men who started on pleasure trip up the
Yesterday to his employer +. NJ Benjamin. of Nos.
90 and % Greenost, the sad result of the exc1r,
yacht, who was the only other person on board
saved, called on Mr.; Eddy, of The Sunday Courier,
the disaster. Mr.. Tompkins, in telling the story
to TRIBUNE reporter said
self Three we Of she %en were from ena
store in aSS They ame9 TSs Others
%ene Sf HafSa aa0 Eddy, SooEisepsT Shipping
office, No Bowling-green, and William Edmonson,
shipbrokers clerk. The party started on the yacht
Monday morning, and we stopped first ut Port
Morris for johnson, who was waiting for us with q
young woman named Miss Fannie Campbell. About
andeS and %e en went to in
yawl-boat where a supply of groceries was bought
and they seemed to be ENJOYING themselves
The next day the weather, was hazy, but we
port The sky was then very much clouded, and
could see that we would have bad weather. GER
squail, but thinking that it best to avoid all
danger told the young men that 1t would DO well
40 anxious to get there, hcwever that tried my
best to please them. In q very short time the SKY
became black and lghtning and thunder followed
and the yacht made rs snug as possible. Then the
rain fell. AT the same time the sea became rough,
and the yacht tossed about in every direction.
The wind seemed to come from every quarter,
and it was blowing a gale Sls,,r Soon Soon the
second squall struck us, and the members of the
party became scattered in the water The yawl
heavy clothes, which put on when the rain began
to fall and it was as much as could do to look out
for myself. johnson, who was good swimmer,
tried to catch hold of me; but had enough to do
to swim without any burden. kicked hun away,
and then he caught the mast, to which he clung as
long as he could Palmer tried to save Miss Camp
bell, but he found that 1t was useless task. She
moaned and called on God for help, but in n few
We're the next to disappear. was then exhausted
as large haiLstones were falling which
beat against my face with great force t9.;n,:
and swan over to him. l found that lie had kept
himself up by clingng to the icc-box, which was
floating. We both chung firmly to that and then
began to shout for help. Eddy was the last one
that saw go down. lie was floating on an oar but
owing to exhaustion he unable to keep adoat.
=" For three-quarters of an hour shouted at the
top of my voice for help Palmer, my only COM
panion, swooned in the water and lay motonless on
the ice-box. My cries for help finally We're heard
10y Captain Bonscy of the schooner Senator, from
Maine. / think he must have been mile of when
he first saw When he reached the wreck lie re-
fused to take Palmer board because, as he said
lie dead. He certainly looked like a dead man,
but insisted that lie could be resuscitated and both
of us were taken aboard.
- l think the young men had taken too many pro-
visions on board, which, added to the ballast, helpe
to sink the boat. The yacht sloop-rgged 81
feet 10 inches long, and carried nansal Il glib, a
Gibtopsail and a galftOpsail. She had about three
and one-haf tons of iron for ballast"
Mr.. Tompkins told Mr.: Eddy that he thought it
would be almost impossible to ind the bodies The
water where the vessel went down was from thirteen
to sixteen fathoms deep. Nothing is known of the
woman except that she lived i'll Fourthst.