Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-06-27
DOWN IN A TUGB0AT.

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A New York Fishing Party Meets
with Disaster While Off
Sandy Hook.
New York, June 24.-The tug James y.
Nichol. with large number of excur-
sionists. and a crew of ten or twelve.
sank ut 1 o'clock this afternoon three
miles off the Highlands. Fifty-four of the
seventy-five on board have been ac-
counted for. The rest were probably
drowned. The party was on a fishing
trip The accident was caused by the
passengers rushing to one side of the
boat, which careened and was capsized
10y heavy sea.
The eXcursionists were from all over
the East side from College point from
Brooklyn and even from Hoboken, and it
Is probable that some of those drowned
will never be reported or heard from
again. The disaster is rendered more
narrowing by the fact that most of the
men were married and leave large fami-
lies. Today it is thought not less than
thirty-siN persisted. SO far, however, on
y seven bodies have been recovered
Those Identified are: .---..
FRANK DUNN.
HERMAN EVARD.
- EYSER
THOMAS MASSEN.
WALTER BUCKRIHGE.
CHARLES BURKHART
HENRY BISHOP.
FREDERICK FAY.
EDWARD FAY.
JOHN FISHER.
SAMUEL GUNTER.
J. HIGGINS.
JAMES HAYES.
JACOB HEBRAUCK.
JOSEPH NEBRAUCK.
DELL KORAN.
LOUIS HOCHRIN.
ALBERT HAMMOND.
JOHN AND WILLIAM kIESCHNE2-
WILLIAM LANGDON,
HENRY MILLER.
HUGH MILHoLLAND
HENRY PElNING.
JOHN QUINN,
WILLIAM SCHULTZ
THOMAS SCHLEsINGER.
WILLIAM TRUESDELL.
FREDERICK UNDERHEIT.
ANDREW WHISTLER.
CHARLES WETTLING.
EMIL WOLF.
Among the missing are the following,
all of New York:
FRANK MCALEER.
WILLIAM Moor.
ALBERT PABST.
FREDERICK NOHLING.
SOLOMON GRIESMAN.
CHRISTIAN ZAHN.
The pilot house of the tug has washed
ashore at Highland Beach, and SO has a
portion of the life raft Among the
Wreckage washed ashore at Parkertown
are two kegs of beer.
Capt. John Hyde. commander of the i'll
fated tug, was seen today at the office of
the owner of the tug. He IS young
man p years of age, and says that he has
had 4 masters license for the past four
years. For the first time, Capt. Hyde
told the story of the disaster. L could
count but fifty-eight passengers on the
tug, he said when she left the second
stOpping-place at pier 3, East river.
There were five men in the crew, making
siNty-three all told. We had been lying
off Seabrlght at anchor when the wind
began to freshen. We soon raised an
Choir, intending to leave. We were about
thrae-quarters of an hour from the shore.
The sea when we started was not very
heavy, and hardly any spray came on
board. The passengers, thinking that
they might get wet, all crowded to the
port side | asked them to divide up and
part take the starboard side. but no heed
was paid to my request. 1he sea was
somewhat choppy, but not what could be
called heavy. Outside some distance
from shore it appeared much calmer than
in shore. / thought if we ran out for
some distance we would make better
weather. We were in no apparent dam
ger except for the people crowding to the
port size of the boat. i suddenly saw a
heavy swell bearing down upon us, close
" followed by a second one. L called
again to the passengers to take the star
board side of the boat, but it was not
done. The first sea boarded us clean over
the bow and rushed aft. The second fol-
lowed closely, also boarding us over the
bow. and washed down the port side.
This was caused by the heavy list on the
boat.
when the first wave hit US / cried
For Gods sake get over to the oher side?
| pulled the whistle rope then as sig
nal of distress, and seeing the great dan
ger, tied it down. 1t kept blowing until
the Nicol went down. After the boat
had careened under the second SWELL
Al. Hammond, a deck hand and myself
climbed through the starboard windows
of the pilot house and went overheard
There were a number of people strug-
Cling in the water all around. The life
raft was near the spot where the tug
sank and | made for it. There We're a
number of passengers on it and hanging
to it, and their struggles capsized it. [
went over struck by it and went down.
When l rose to the surface [ managed
to grasp it again. The members of the
crew of the boat, Pilot Raymond Kelly,
Engineer John Farrell, Fireman Lewis
Hockiem. Al. Hammond and Steward
James Fleming, were all picked up by
the tug Sayre.