The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-04-12
ONE BY ONE
They LOcsed Thew Holds and
Sank Beneath the Waves,
After Saying Farewell to Those
Who Remained.

a safiboat with an INSTRUCTOR and Ten
Pupils from the Boston Farm schoo,
capsized by a squaII-Drited Ashor.
with but Two survivors-rhev Tel, IN /.
Story Of Their Experience.
BosToS. April 11-Sunday evening an
instructor and ten boys connected with
the Boston farm school at Thompson.
island were capsized in sail boat. and
the instructor and eight of the bows
drowned. The victims We're:
a. +. Nordberg, instructor, aged
about forty.
Frank +. Hitchcock, nineteen.
Homer + Thatcher, seventeen.
George f. Ellis, sixteen.
Thomas Phillips, sixteen.
William w. Curran, seventeen.
Charles III. Graves, seventeen.
Harry E. Loud, sixteen.
Adeibert IA. Packard, sixteen.
How 1t Happened.
The instructor had been to the CITY
during the day to attend church. and
the boys. constituting a regular crew Of
the school, left the island at $3.50 to sail
to City Point to convey the instructor
to the island. The trip is Considered
perfectly safe, having been made for
years without accident. The trim was
made, and soon after D. M, the boat
started on the return.
AT q point between Spectacle island
and Thompson's island the boat was
struck by squall and capsized. The
eleven occupants were thrown into the
ice cold water, but succeeded in secur-
ing positions where they could cling to
was seen in the distance, and they shout.
ed with all their remaining strength but
could not attract any attention. The
night was cold and the shore and
wharves were abandoned.
When the time for the boat to return
TO the island had passed, the superin-
tendent OF the school, Charles II. Brad
icy. Went TO the beach to scan the waters
toward City Point to see if the bows
We're approaching. There was fire ON
neighboring island and he got in the
range of the fire light in the hope that
1t would aid his vision, but he saw
nothing.
The Survivors, Story.
The survivors say that they saw his
form patroling the beach and felt that
the rescue would come, but it did not.
Finally the chill of the water and tbe
e1eruon necessary to keep their heads
above the surface overcame the unfor-
Inmates and one by one they were com
PEELED to release their hold. The in
structor was the first to go. Each Of
fered prayer or word of farewell to
the others as he gave up his hold or life.
Some of them endured the unequal
contest for nearly four hours, and it was
IL o'clock when the boat, with the two
survivors still clinging to it, but ex-
hausted, drifted to shore. They were
Immediately cared for and are recover
ing. from the exhaustion of their ex-
perience.
Superintendent Bradley came to the
city Monday, notified the police and Of
ficers of the Boston farm school of the
disaster, and engaged divers to search
for the divers.
This is the only drowning accident
that has happened to the school since
A. F. Nordberg, the instructor, was
native of Sweden, who came here at the
solicitation of the managers of the school
about year ago from Chicago, where
he has brother residing. He is not
known to have any other relatives in
this country. He was unmarried.