The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-05-29
TW0 DROWNED
N HARbOR At
DUTCH ISLAND

A double drowning occurred yester-
day afternoon in Dutch Island harpor
The victims were the second mate ana
one seaman OF the British barkentine
Lakeside, bound from Turks Island Tor
this city with cargo or salt. Inc
accident was due TO the capsizing OF
a small boat in which they were being
towed from jamestown TO saunders
town by the ferryboat Narragansett.
Another sailor was rescued py means
OF a life preserver thrown into the
water.
The Lakeside put into Dutch Island
harbor. near Fort Greble, on the west
side OF the west passage or me pay
and Capt. Fancy OF the Lakeside. Sec
ond Mate w. Lovely, Pilot King ana
Seamen J. A. Anderson and William
Larsen set out for jamestown In the
King might get something at his home
In that place.
AS the Narragansett was making her
landing at Fort Greble the tender con-
taining the three OF the crew of the
Lakeside was trailing along In the
wake. The Narragansett Is double
ended and her her stern thus became ann,,nse hee
her Journey TO Saunderstown. This
necessitated the shifting of the row.
boat TO the other end OF the ferry
boat. and word was passed to Mate
Lovely TO go to the leeward of the
Narragansett. The tow rope was cast
off and the tender started to go 10 the
other end OF the ferryboat, but through
some misunderstanding Lovely in
structed his seamen to row to the
windward OF the craft. Meanwhile, the
of the ferry slip and Capt. King Of
the Narragansett saw that the two
craft were going to collide. He sig
nailed to the engine room for speed
went unheeded. In quick time the
guard OF the Narragansett had scraped
| against the side of the rowboat. al
three occupants of the tender were
thrown into the water.
After the accident Capt. King In
the failure OF the engineer to heed
| his signals for the reversing of the
| engines. The engineer said he had
heard no signal and 1T was found that
the gong clapper had been broken.
The accident was seen from the deck
| of the steamer and also by the sol
diers at the fort Life preservers were
thrown overheard from the steamer
| and Maj. Brooks at the fort sent out
| boat manned by soldiers TO the res
| cue OF the struggling men In the water
| life preservers and was sustained In
| the water until the rowboat from shore
| came TO his assistance, but Lovely and
| Anderson, after desperate struggle
| i'm the rough water, sank before aid
| arrived All three men could swim,
| but on account OF the extremely low
| temperature OF the water they were
quickly chilled through and through.
Sergt. Jones OF the one Hundred and
| Ninth Coast artillery was one OF those
| who went to the aid OF the struggling
| men In the Fort Greble rowboat, and,
| as the rescuing party arrived upon the
| scene, Jones, seeing one OF the men
| apparently disappearing beneath the
| surface for the last time, plunged
| overheard. Just as he struck the water,
a large wave swept the drowning man
| out OF the would-be rescuer's reach.
| Before Jones could reach the other man
the latter had disappeared for the last
| time.
| Second Mate Lovely, who was
| drowned. was about 2S years old, single
| and native of Parrsboro. n. s, while
! Seaman Anderson was "a years old,
| single and a native OF Norway. Lar
sen, the man rescued, is of about the
same age and comes from Norway.