The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-09-05

Two Residents of Baltimore County
| Drown in Maine-Sad Ending of Pleas
ure Party.-A dispatch from Deer Isle, Maine
dated September I'd says:
Two women from Lutherville Baltimore
| county, Md. members of party of TO- were
among seven persons drowned by the capsizing
| OF 35-foot sloop in Penobscot bay yesterday
afternoon. They were Misses Evelyn and
Lutte Kelogg daughters of Mr.. Henry Kel-
iogg. The body of but one of them was re-
covered
"The others drowned were two young women
named Torris, from Washington; Mrs.
Crawley of Philadelphia; Miss Evans, of Mount
Holyoke, and Jason G. Hutchins, of Bangor.
THE Misses Kellogg, who lived with their
father on his country estate at Luthervllle,
We're well known in Baltimore county society.
They left home about month ago for vaca-
ton at Deer Isle, and expected to return tomor-
row. They were members of Trinity Protes-
tant Church at Towson, and had large circle
OF friends. Their mother died several years
ago. Besides their father they are survived by
one sister-Mrs. Nora Hardcastle.
The sloop was OF the open variety and
carried no ballast, but Captain Haskell, who is
experienced in these waters, thought the party
OF 10 could balance Improperly.
!. Though the spray dashed over the party
there was no thought of danger until the after
noon was drawing to a close, when Captain
Haskell decided that the wind was too heavy
for his boat and the sea too choppy, so he
brought the sloop around and started on tack
homeward.
"All the party were perched high up on the
weather side, as the slOop cut through the
waves, with the water almost coming over the
gunwales on the lee side, when Captain Haskell
gave shout of warning that he was going to
tack, and then threw over the tiller. The boat
rose high on the water, exposing her to the full
brunt of the wind. In a twinkling the sloop
went over on her beam ends and the party of
ten were thrown int0 the water.
Captain Haskell had been clinging to the
sheet, and his tenacious hold had not been
loosened by the sudden plunge into the ice cold
water.
side up. shouting to Professor Crawley and
Henry Evans, who were nearest to him, he d.
rected them to make for the tender, doing SO at
the same time himself. Professor Crawley,
however. still chung to the overturned sloop,
looking for his wife, while Evans was trying
vainly to locate his sister.
Haskell gained the tender and clambered
aboard. Cutting it loose from the overturned
sloop he picked up the oars, rowed to Crawley
and Evans and helped them aboard, persuading
them that the only way they could help the
women folk was from the rowboat. But even
then the women were beyond help. Weighted
down by their water. soaked clothes and chilled
through by the cold water they had been I'M
able to keep themselves afoat.
1.-THE three men found that they were almost
as incapable OF giving assistance IN their boat
as they had been in the water. The wind was
too high and the sea too rough for them to
handle the small boat
1.-THE upset, however, had been seen from
Eagle Island, not far away, and sloop was
sent out to pick up the survivors. The rescu-
ing party reached the tender just in time and
pulled the three exhausted men aboard. OF
the rest of the party but two were in sight,
Miss Lutte Kellogg and Miss Evans. They
were unconscious, and although the rescuers
worked vigorously over them all efforts to re-
store life failed.'
Mr.. Kellogg said on Wednesday: "My
daughters left here about month ago for Deer
Isle, Maine, and were expected home next
Thursday. I received letter from them this
morning, telling me of the pleasures of their
trip and notifying me of the time of their de-
parture for home. The letter went into detail
about the return trip, especially informing me
that they had booked passage on Fall River
steamer for New York, whence they would
come to Baltimore by train.''
AS the body of but one them has been re-
covered up to this time no arrangements for
the funeral have been made.
The mother of the Misses kellogg and sis
ter died of typoid fever several years ago with