Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-06-15

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- Nond4y n5ghs While SsfsEDing 81
= launeh from tse Jamestown EGDosi-
ton zr0unds - tse T. = =. 8fBDe-
sofa IN Hampton Rozds- - NJ io1gsE
a mystery. aItb0s2h ffBsig frle1fs
and relatives bad b0ped against
hope
with canopy frame erBsfed- bgf
canvas Still f5gbfIyr fastened down.
the missing launch - the DzttIesbiD
ninnes0Ez was located In y feet -
xzfer.aboss 100 yards west ~ south
~ Port Wool, known - the Zip Rap,
yesterday afEern0n about o'eloek,
Across the little craft was = teIItsle
piece ~ towing lire serving - con
vince the naval 01Ieers that they are
right 10 their theory that the launch
va r8n down by fost u some Kind
in t0w % q tug.
The diver who went down 70 ex-
anime the launch reported that the
heads and arms - tbres men were
Drofrudfpg from beneat5 the canvas
covering. the men having made des~
perats fight for life when they we're
carried down like rats in = trsp,
The launch vas raised about ,
0rcOek this morning and nine ~ uye
bodies were under the canopy, bot the
fact that uniform eapes ~ 1idsbip~
man GIr1eh and Stevenson were pick
ed np in flys roads indicates that these
tx0 must have succeeded iH getting
free from the boat before they were
drowned.
Aboard the battfesbfp Indiana last
night Captain Naban confirmed the re-
p.5rf Of me finding 81 tie launch. lie
said that All the facts had been wired
= Washington and that an official
report would be given out to-day.
SeayehIigbfs from All the American
Daitlesbips are playing upon the spot
around which two floating deTrickg,
the naval fog Potomac and half =
d0zen launches and cutters are an
ehOred.
diver last night went =, fi5e ...>
tom ~ tie roads placing ~ e1DIe
With which the deTrleks were - rS,ef
tie launch. Omeers and 1e1 On
board the Atlantic feet wefe aDz-
igusly saifiDg for tbs raising ~ the
D0zf.
The 80 -fafed b0st Das found ~ tie
launches - the bzfllesbfDs Ohio and
gowa, which were dragging oyef =
egnFse laid 0Bt ~ tie 0fi)efrs, =
diver from tlIe Indiana was seDt 10pD
- soon - possible. and before dzfk~
f1ees had settled 0veF the roads sig
aais grgn ship - ship announced the
search which bad been ~ progress
since Tuesday was ~ an end, In
locking for the boat tlss officers pro
eeeIed 0F tlIe fbs0fy that the launch
- ben Il feft the Exposition grounds
A. midnight Monday started for tie
bsffIesbft Connecticut ~ DDt Mid
shSOsazn n0le0Db aboard that vessel,
- which ~ bslOggsd,
Il Nss supposed that tie boat va
ran down somewhere between =
point where she would bsve started
aes,sa the main channel and tie hat
flee6fg Connecticut, There the End
pas fna1e. tie spDt being several
hundred yards from where TIE CDS-
nooflegt wzs aneis0fe1 ard = s3oTt
distance frDn ffss pfsDeb squadron.
ft - learned that a Sew J9fk,
pafgGelpb1a agd NOTfolk ear feat
faseed through ffle fOzds e,lOffIy
afsNs midnight Tuesday DDFD3pH
l.gl5nd frofn Gspe Charles for HoTfoIk,
TIE gaat arrlse1 iD ,Aggf0lk aD0Dt
3 o'e1eek 1Oesgzy norn5nH, ard - be
ttese4 "a have feeB directly ~ ne
Exposition grounds ~ fi5e time uDs
lauDeb vent d0wn ~ figs sane place,
~ far - tf5e diver could teiJ the
bail - ne ls0nefI Nss Dlt dzf0zTe1,
esly fbe esgOpy frame bs1DH crushed,
Thfs lu1leztes that U,s D0zt Was nj
la collision with tnx - 0tlgef sgeb
craft. HssaI ofsesss sfs convinced
fhaf fsse boat ran into . toulfbe aD1
80 thrown under . s<t8zfs ssg5 b8fzs
~ aoas, II This happened tie launch
ne. have BEEN IitersIlT 0ss3,ed bS-
noafs sbs W2ter, aa1 - occupants
Gs~ rafashlpnssu asd six se11 -, bzl
~ ebsnes - escape,
TIE f0gses - tke men plI1 ~ ssDt
- fhe bastleshlp 1fnDssofe - sl,oD -
rseoverad. sD1 there TIE f8Ssf&g sefs
vices pflg - eOp1eets6 this morn
1rx at ~ ofe5Dek> 4 t8H beSslnH
et@ren essksts bzs bssD 0F1sfe1 fsosb
fsa Nasal Hospital - ~ Minnesota,
f.ascgnfn ffe<s vii accompany a
- eondaef ~ fassSsJ services,
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