New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-04-12
DROWNED IN ICY WATERS.
AN INSTRUCTOR AND EIGHT BOYS MEET
DEATH IN BOSTON HARBOR.
THEIR sAILBoAT OvERTURNED-Two BOYS RES
CITED AFTER -FOUR HOURS EXPOSURE.

THEIR SAILBoAT OvERTURNED-Two BOYS RES
cUED AFTER FOUR HOURS EXPOSURE
Boston, April 11.-An instructor and ten boys con-
nected with the Boston Farm School at thompson ,
Island were capszed last evening in sailboat ana
the instructor and eight OF the boys drowned The
victims
A. F. Nordberg instructor, aged about forty Frank
F. Hitchcock, aged nineteen admitted september io
1883: Homer F. Thatcher. seventeen, admitted Janu
ary o. 1887; George F. Ellis, sixteen, admitted NO
vcrnbcr "a 1886 Thomas Phillips, sixteen, admitted
September 10, 1856; william W. Curran, seventeen
admitted August 20, 1855; Charles H. Graves seven
teen admitted May Is, 1886; Harry E. Loud, SIX
teen admitted september 2S 1887; Adelbcrt H.
Packard, sixteen, admitted May 9, 1855
The rescued boys we're owe W. Clements, seventeen,
and Charles A. Lamb, sixteen.
The instructor had been to the city during the DAY
to stend church. and the ten boys, constituting
reor cre,y OF the school, left the island at 80 to
so TO City Point to convey the Instructor to the
island The trip is considered perfectly safe under
ordinary circumstances having been made for years.
even during the winter months, without accideh' A
precaution however, in view OF the breeze the crew
took a single sboat instead OF douDie shFcrdi' Ill
which the trip is often made
The trp 10 the Point made, and soon after
n m tbe boat started on the return trip. At a
polpt supposed to be between Spectacle Island ana
Thompson's Island the boat was struck by sq'iaii
and Immediately capszed. Inc eleven occupa"''
were thrown into the ice-cold water but oelhg ac-
customed to strict discipline and the exercise oil pn'A
in the school, they all secured positions where they
,d cling to the overturned craft, and then began
long wait for rescue, which to most OF them was never
TO come.
According to the testimony Of the two SURVIVORS
they encouraged each other with words OF cheer occa
ionay shouting I'm the hope that they might De hearu
by some one on shore. At one time tug was seen III
I,tfth haI rS
ing strength but could not attract attention Inc
,icht was cold and the shores and wharvcs were
oh,ndoned When the time for the boat to return 70
tho island had passed. the superintendent OF inc
school Charles H. Bradley went to the beach 10 scah
the waters toward City Point to see II his BOYS were
approachlng There was a fire on hdghDorins
island and he got In range OF the freght IN the nope
that IL would aid his vision but he sa" ho'nins' "0
survivors say that they saw his form patrolins the
h and fclt sure that rescue would come. but 1t did
NOT Finally the chill OF the water and the exertoh
oecessory to keep their heads above the surface over
came the unfortunaes and one by one they were con
pclled 10 release their hold.
The instructor the first TO co. Each oHor'u
ycr or a word OF farewell to the others as he gave
nm nj, hold on lfe some of them endured for nearly
,ur hours or about II O'Clock, when the boat win
rho t,vo survivors still clinging to IT, but exhausen
driftod ashore They Immediately cared Tor ana
,r, rapdly recovering from the effects OF their eA
posure
SUPERINTENDENT Bradley came to the city this morn
i,c informed the police undertakers and the oneers
~ the Boston Farm School OF the disaster ann en-
cnced a diver to search for the bodies OF the los'.
This Is the only drowning accident that has happeho
to the school since 1si2.
The Boston Asylum and Farm >chooi ior niusuu' ',1'
Rows is a private institution suPporVu Os Ne"'S
ctIzens It's funds all appropriated for % seylns h
inetTueting and employing INDECENT boys Lhe oVy 5
,.i,c "a good common cho6 education ana are in
'eet ~ moral and religious duties. The boys
ere ali good swimmers and Mr. Nordbere was an eN
W., ne icy temperature Of the water IS suplo>el
ht, rbiiI.d them 80 that they unable to make
,rv effort, for their own safety ., n,
""', I, %ouiherg the Instructor, was a nauVe OF
;or ,rbn came here at the solicitation or the man
~ ~, the srhool about year ago from tmcaso
where he has a brother T. siding lie Is not Aho"h T"
hnvo other relatives In this country.