Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-09-02
DROWN
IN BOATING
ACCIDENT
SMALL SLOOP OVERTURNS
IN PENOBSC0T BAY
Victims All Summer Visitors
from Washington, Baltimore
and Philadelphia; List of
Dead and Saved.

LBy Morning journal Special Lensed WIFe.l
Deer Island. Me-, Sept. 1.-Seven
summer visitors out of party of ten
were drowned by the capsizing of a
thirty-five foot sloop in Penobscot bay,
off this island today.
The Drowned.
MISS ALICE TORRO. Washington.
D. C.
MISS ELANoR ToRRo. Washing
ton, d. c.
MISS KELLOGG, Baltimore.
Lutte KELLOGG. Baltimore.
MISS LUCY c. CRAWLEY, Phila-
delphia.
MISS ELIZABETH G.. EVANS
Mount Holyoke seminary Massachu-
sets.
JASON c. HUTCHINS Bangor, Me.
The Saved.
Captain Haskell, Deer Isle
Prof. Edwin S. Crawley, Philadel-
phia, University of Pennsylvania, hus-
Dunu OF MfS. CTdNley.
Henry b. Evans. Mount Holyoke
brother of Miss Elizabeth Evans.
The bodies Of Lutte Kellogg ant
Miss Evans were recovered. There
was some hope that Mr.. Hutchins was
saved, as when last seen he was max
ing a brave struggle through the
choppy seas toward Barren Island
nearby boat was sent from this
place tonight in an effort to locate
him or his hodv a. g
@N so OOO-S aiasNeir' ,..Hll1 sn' %,
pars ID $50 900 OO1-4 T. etmoon nn ~, ~,
90 vickers and schre , ne ia 49, ~
"o Kleinow It 49,,
ti',is ...11O 600 2O-4 10 o.. - a'I,,
"eisA 600 600 0O--0 3 80,
Sotor Sap'a Eoombs and Blgse, MJ!9lEp,-K tba
the craft would be well balanced.
The party had scarcely been gon'
an hour when the wind freshened up
heeling the sloop well over. Their
was no throught of danger until tn
afternoon was drawing to a close
when Captain Haskell decided that tn,
wind was too heavy and started on {
tack homeward
All the party were perched higl
upon the weather side, as the slool
cut through the waves with the waite
almost coming over the gunwales o
| the leeside when Captain Haskell CAV
a shout of warning that he was goinI
| to tack and then threw over the tiller
Just at this moment the boat ros
high up on a wave exposing her to tn
| full brunt of the wind. An UNUSUAL,
! heavy gust struck her and in
( twinkling the sloop went over on he
beams ends and the party of tel
were thrown into the water.
For one brief minute it was ever
one for every ones self Captain Has
kell, however, had been clinging t
the sheet and his tenacious hold ha
not been lossened by the sudde
| plunge into the cool waters. He SAY
that the boats tender was right sid
up and shouting to Professor Crawle
and Henry Evans he directed them t
make for the tender, doing so at tn
same time himself Professor Craw
ley, however, still clung to the over
turned sloop. looking for his wifi
while Evans was trying vainly to lc
cate his brother
In the meantime Haskell had gair
ed the tender and had clambere
aboard. Cutting 1t loose from tn
overturned sloop. he picked up tn
oars and bringing the boat up nea
Crawley and Evans, helped thei
aboard. persuading them that tn
only way they could help the wome
folks was from the rowboat. But eve
then the women were beyond he'll
Weighted down by their watersoake
clothing and chilled they had bee
unable to keep themselves aftoa
Some had grabbed the person neare
them by the neck and in some II
stances they had gone down togethe
clasped in each others arms.
The three men in the tender -four
that they were almost as incapab
Of giving assistance in the boat
they had been in the water. I'll
wind was so high and the sea tC
rough.
t The upset. however, had been see
5 from Eagle island and as soon as po
r sible a sloop was sent out to pit
| up the survivors. The resculng par
= reached the tender Just in time al
, pulled the three exhausted m'
e aboard OF the rest of the party b
: two were In sight and the boat VI
e headed for them. They were Lut
Kellogg and Miss Evans. They we
= unconscious and although the rescue
worked vigorously over them, all c
j. forts to restore life failed.
The boat was we'll back on its WI
Y to the island before the fate
Hutehins was recalled. Then someol
Z remembered that he had seen Hutc
ins swimming strongly for Barren
4 land. It was too late then to chan
the boats course, for by that time Z
: young man had either gone to t
bottom or had managed to reach {
d rocks.
! Hutchins was a student In the seni
0 class of the Bangor theological sci
= mary and had been filling a pull
at Sunset, on Deer island, for t