Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-08-06
Gaso||Ae Canoe Grey Hound Went
Beneath n. Y. P. 8 n. Car
Float After Striking
Steel Cable.
nEH HAD MIRACULOUS ESCAPE
Three sprans Aboard Float and the
Other TWO Reached Wrecked Boat
And Chung There Until Picked Up
BY Steamer Montauk = Man on
Barge Refused to Signal Tug.

"Thcy found man on the float
who told them that the captain was
asleep and refused to stop the float
or signal the tug"
This statement IS contained In n
signed account of the loss OF the gas
oline canoe Grey Hound. which was
run down in Hampton Roads. or
Pine Beach, shortly after 10 O'Clock
Sunday night by n New York, Phlla-
delphia & Norfolk car float. In tow
OF the tug Salisbury, made to Collect
or OF Customs j. +. 3. Stuart by two
of the men who were in the boat.
There we're six people in the canoe
and one OF them, little Clifford Gar
rett, the four-year-old son OF G. p.
Garrett. OF 1925 Twcnty-lifth street,
was drowned.
The five men on the canoe were e..
p. and Edgar Garrett. of this city;
Hurbert Garrett, OF Richmond; ]. l..
Garrett, of jamestown Island, and
II. e. Garrett. OF Cincinnati. Four
of the men are brothers and Iiurbert
Garrett is cousin OF the others.
Miraculous Escape.
The escape OF the men was little
short of miraculous They owe their
lives to fair weather and the timely
appearance of the steamer Montauk;
had there been storm on the Roads.
all on board the Grey Hound would
have been drowned, just as were clev-
en- officers and men In the Inflated
launch OF the battlcship Minnesota
near the same place early In the sum
mer. G. u. and II. f.. Garrett were
carried beneath the car float, the
former carrying in his arms his little
boy. and we're clinging to the wreck
age of the canoe when Captain VAIN
right. of the Montauk, heard lhelr
cries and sent boat to the rescue.
Child Drowned.
The little boy was drowned before
he reached the surface of the water,
and the father was Obliged to let the
BODY go In order to save his own life.
inc other three men performed a
rather remarkable feat in leaping
from the canoe, catching the side of
the moving car float and climbing on
board. They were carried to Nor
folk. believing that the others were
drowned. The Montauk brought G.
Z. and X. e. Garrett here. after that
vessel had made fruitless search
for the other occupants of the canoe,
and they went to the Garrett home in
East End to carry the news that the
other four had been drowned Two
OF the three who reached the float
came here from Norfolk early yester-
day morning and hurried out 10 the
home. where was reunion, the joy
OF which was marred by the absence
Of the little boy.
Hurbert had been left in st. Vim
cents hospital. where he will have
to remain for several weeks on &C.
count of his broken leg
The body of the drowned boy was
found about IL o'clock yesterday
morning in fish net off Black River
Point by Charles and William Cope
land This point Is about six miles
or more fro mwhere the accident oc-
Cured
Statement to Collector.
The story of the accident is best
told In the signed statement which
was given to Collector of Customs j..
4. b. Stuart yesterday by j. L. and
r. r. Garrett. The statement is
M follows:
Newport News, Va. August 5, 1907.
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Collector of Customs.
Newport News, Va.
Dear Sir
THE following is an account of the
accident to the Grey Hound" about
10 p. M. August 4, 1907.
There were five (5) men and one
boy In the Grey Hound" which is
canoe 32 feet long. She has 6
h. p. engine in her, is not registered
in any custom house on account OF
her small tonnage. and being a pleas
ure boat. no licensed engineer was on
board. had lantern OH her when
left jamestown Island. but on Sun
day. at IL n. m, lost it overheard.
Being Sunday | had no way of re-
placing 1t, and had to go home with
out any lights. | left Pine Beach
pier about 10 p. m, and was not far
from the end OF the Ice pier at Pine
Beach, about half way between the
, pier and the monitor, when the ac-