Morning journal and courier., 1890-03-18
DROWNED IN THE HAnBon.

DROWNED IN THE HARBOR. The Bodies of Edwin Rowe, IT,, and
 Jairus Kennan, the Misslng Sheff.
 students, Found Together on the
 West Haven shors-The story of
 Their sad Fate.
 The bodies of Edwin Rowe,jr., of this city, . senior, and Jairus Kennan, freshman in the Sheffield scientific school, were found ly- ing close together, face to face. in . small pool of water between two sand bars on the wsst Haven shore about quarter of mile beyond the Sutton shipyard yesterday after noon at about 2:,5 o'clock by one of the searching parties which had been organized ss soon ss 1t became evident that the young msn had been lost somewhere along the shore between this city and Milford. 3@s
 The young men started early Sunday morn- ing in the catboat Unio, which they had hired owner. They reached Milford in the fore noon and remained there till esalook, when they started to return. The wind. was high and cold.s It was . stinging nor 'wester, but still they determined to beat their way back to New Haven. They must have had very rough passage before they entered the hare bor. It was probably 8 o'clock when they ran upon the West Haven jetty. The tide foot of water. It was 50 dark that they could not sec where they were. Their boat was accompanied by light tender and in this they probably endeavored to make the shore. They were unable to withstand the exposure to the toy water which was their boat was probably capsized while they ~arA ati11 far from, ah0ra
 Early yesterday morning the steam dredge Enterprise, Captain Hulse, returned from the oyster beds beyond the breakwatsr, where 1t had found the water too rough for dredg- ing. Captain Hulse saw the Unio, which he immediately recognized as one of MT. Aus tins boats, lying high and dry upon the West Haven jetty. Its sail was set and 1t was evident that 1t had been accidentally run upon the jetty and abandoned at high tide on the night before. Captain Hulse lowed the Unio to Belle dock and gave the first in- timation of the fsts which had befallen Rowe and KennAn.
 Bafors this the friends of the two young prolonged absence. It was known they had sailed for Milford, and telegrams of inquiry were sent to points along the coast for some intelligence of tho missing students. Rowe was son of MT. Edwin Rowe, New York produce and commission dealer, who resides at 488 Orange street. Kennan has resided with O. N. Shepard, superintendent of the New York roed. He is son of T. w. Ken- nan of Pine Blu&, Arkansas, who was form. erly an assistant of MT. Shepsrd's and Is now general superintendent of the Pennsylvania, Poughkeepsie and Boston. The two families have for years been very intimate.
 Young Kennan's father came to this city on Saturday afternoon on a visit to his son. The young man had planned to go on the days sail and his father did not urge him to remain at home, but told him to go and en- joy himself If he wished to.
 Two searching parties of students were or- ganized and third was under the leader- ship of Samuel R. Beers, clerk for s. E. Msr- win q Son, who resides on Orange street. It was this third party that discovered the bodies of the two unfortunate young men be- tween the sand bars on the West Haven shore. Word of the discovery was tele- phoned to O. M. Shepard at the union depot. He started with Millner Rowe, brother of young Rowe, and Mir. Kochersperger for the spot where the young men lay, and positive ly identified them. Young Remnants face had been bruised and lacerated by being dashed against the rocks by ths waves, but Rowe's face was quite natural, although somewhat bloated. The bodies lay close to- gether, almost side by side.
 Superintendent Shepard had the bodies re- moved to Lewis q Maycock's undertaking establishment in this city.
 The small tender in which the two young men tried to escape from their position and reach shore has not been found and probably drifted out into the sound after they were thrown or fell from it. MT. Austin, of whom they hired the Unio, tried to persuade them from going on Sunday morning, but they iu safety. Mr. Austin says they would have been safe if they had remained in the boat when 1t struck upon the jstty. The water was subsiding and was but . foot over the jetty at the time. Men who are familiar with the harbor say that many accidents have been narrowly averted at this jetty and that there should be at at least foot more bs visible at high tide.
 Old boatmen say that could the young men have remained In their boat when 1t grounded on the jetty for an hour or 90 until tho tide had subsided somewhat, and barred the jetty's top, they might have been saved. ss they might then and have rowed to shore in comparatively smooth water inside the tetty. But the violence of the waves and the cold and exposure probably. were too great and the young men took their last chance for life in their small boat.
 Edwin Rowe, father of young Rowe, was in New York when the bodies were found. It is his custom to come up on late after noon train and Superintendent Shepard tele- grsped the sad news to him at Bridgeport.
 Young Kennan was an only ohild. He graduated from the New Haven high school and was freshman in Shelf. His compan ion, Mr. Rowe, graduated from the high school in '87 and was in his senior year in Shelf. Both were very promising young men and their death casts gloom over . large circle of friends and acquaintanoss. Young Remnants mother is in delicate health in Philadelphia and 1t is feared the shook of the news will be more than she can endure. Miss Jessis Rowe, eldest sister of the unfor- tunats Edwin, has also been dangerously III with brain fever. The affair is a peculiarly sad one and much sympathy Is everywhere expressed for the bereaved relatives.