The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1894-05-18
THE BOAT CAPSIZED
Harvard Men on Pleasure Trip
Drowned in Boston Bay.

Floating Clothes Gave a Hint of the Dis
aster-Two Bodies Recovered, While
Two Yet Remain Beneath the Waves.
BOSTON, May 16-Edwin Stanton Bach
of New York city, William Campbell
Trusdell of Newark, n. j., John Farnum
Browne of Philadelphia and franklin
Whitall of Philadelphia, all students at
Harvard college, were drowned in the up
per harbor. near Thompson's island, Sun
day afternoon. The bodies of Browne and
Bach have been recovered.
The first intimation of the catastrophe
was had yesterday, when Superintendent
Bradley of the farm school on Thomp-
sons island picked up near the island two
coats, a crochet to boom and a pair of
oars. In the pockets of one of the coats
were letters addressed to Browne, post
marked Philadelphia, and papers which
showed that the owner was undoubtedly
a student at Harvard. In the pockets of
the other coat were letters addressed to
Trusdell.
An investigation quickly confirmed the
misgivings raised by the story of Boat
keeper Hutchins at City Point. He said
that late Sunday afternoon he let cat
boat to four young men, who told him
they were to be gons bat few hours. He
saw them beating about the bay for some
time, and two hours later he noticed them
in the path of squall that was then
sweeping along the bay. When the blow
had passed he saw them no more, but
thought nothing of it at the time, as it
was rather dark. When the boat was not
returned he went out on search, but
saw nothing to indicate that his property
had been wrecked
When Superintendent Bradley told of
finding of the wreckage and the letters,
etc, the boatkeeper remembered that the
persons who hired the boat had given
him the impression that they were
students, and inquiry at Cam bridge
elected the information from a landlady
with whom two Of the young men lost
boarded, that they had told her Sunday
afternoon that they were
Going on a Boating Trip
The fact that they did not return sooner
occasioned no alarm and she supposed
they had decided to take a more exten-
sive trip
Boatman Hutchins sent out a searching
party yesterday afternoon, and after beat
ing about the harbor for a number of
hours the party sighted an upturned boat.
When it had teen partly righted two
bodies, those of Browne and Bach, were
found clingjng to the mast. Each was
locked in the arms of the other. and both
had to be lifted iuto the smaller boat to-
gether. The men had partially disrobed.
The bodies were turned over to the har-
Dor police, and the searching party con-
tined to look for the bodies of Trusdell
and Whitall, but they have not yet been
found
Trusdell was third year man in the
school. He was an exceptionally bright
student, and was graduated from Prince
ton in 1890.
Browne graduated from Harvard col
lege last year and was a senior at Har-
ward. As he came to the college only last
year he was not generally known among
the students.
Bach was in the junior class, and his
father, Sigmund Bach, of the glass i'm
porting firm of Sigmund Bach & Co.,
New York, is very wealthy. His elder
brother has come to Boston, and says that
his family is completely prostrated by tAe
sad news.
Whitall was graduate of Harvard col
lege last year and entered the senior class
last fall to get the degree of A. B. from
Harvard.