The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-02
Pleasure SIOOp CapSizes and
 Women Lose Lives
RESCUERS ARE POWERLESS
Party Goes Out In Sloop for Last Trip of Vacation and Nearly All Are Lost-One Man Who Is
 Missing May Be Alive.

Deer Island, Me, September 1.-Seven summer visitors out of party of 10 were drowned by the capsizing of a 35-foot sloop in Penobscot Bay, off this island today. The drowned:
 Miss Alice Zorro, Washington, D e.
 Miss Eleanor Zorro, Washington, D. c.
 Miss Kellogg, Baltimore.
 Lutie Kellogg, Baltimore.
 Mrs. Lucy S. crawley, Philadelphia.
 Miss Elizabeth G. Evans, Mount Holy oke Seminary, Mass.
 Jason c. Hutchins, Bangor, Me.
 The saved: Captain Haskell, Deer Isl- and; Prof Edwin S. Crawley, Philadel- phia, husband of Mrs. Crawley; Henry B. Evans Mount Holyoke, brother of Miss Elizabeth Evans
 The bodies of Lutie Kellogg and Miss Evans were recovered. There was some hope that MT. Hutchins had been saved. as when last seen he was making a brave struggle through the choppy seas to- ward Barren Island, nearby. boat was sent from this place tonight in an effort to locate him or his body.
 Last Sail Together.
 With Captain Samuel Haskell the party of light-hearted summer people started out this evening for a sail in Penobscot Bay. It was drawing near the close of the vacation season for most of them and they had planned this as their last out ing together. The wind was from the southwest and squally. The sloop was of the "open" variety. It had no deck for ward and no cabin, and it contained no ballast, as the party of ten weighted the boat down quite heavily, and Captain Haskell, an experienced navigator in these waters, thought that the craft would be well balanced. The party had scarcely been gone an hour before the wind freshened up, heeling the sloop well over, and dashing the spray upon the occupants. Late in the afternoon Cap tain( .askell decided that the wind was too 4avy for his boat and the sea too chop ', so he brought the soop around and started op a tack homeward All fthe patty were perched high ID on tIiv weather side as the sloop cur through the waves with the water almost coming over the gunwales on the lee sde when Captain Haskell gave a shout of warning that he was going to tack and then threw over the tiller. Just at this moment the boat rose high up on a wave exposing her to the full brunt of the wind. An unusually heavy gust struck her, and in a twinkling the sloop went over on her beam ends and the party of ten was thrown into the water
 Where Help Failed. For one brief moment it was everyone for oneself. Captain Haskell had been cllngins to the sheet, and he quickly saw that the boats tender was right side up Shouting to Prof. Crawley and Henry Evans, who were nearest to hom, he de- clded D make for the tender, doing so himself Prof. Crawley, however, still clung to the overturned sloop looking for his wifs, which Evans was trying vainly to locate his sister
 In the meantime Haskell had gained the tender and had clambered aboard. Cut ting it loose from the overturned sloop he picked up the oars and bringing the boat up near Crawley and Evans, helped them aboard Weighted down by their water soaked clothes and chilled through by the cold water, the women had been unable to keep themselves afloat Some had grabbed the person nearest them by the neck and in some instances they had gone down together. casped in each oth- CTS arms.
 The three men in the tender found that I. 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. They were in grave danger themselves of being thrown once more n- to the water.
 Sloop to the Rescue.
 The upset however, had been seen from Eagle Island, not far from the scene of the accident, and as soon as possible d sloop was sent out to pick up the surviv- ors. The rescung party reached tlfe ten- der just in time and pulled the three ex- hausted men aboard. Of the rest of the party, hut two were in sight and the boat was headed for them. There were Lutie Kellogg and Miss Evans. They were un- conscious and although the rescuers worked vigorously over them all efforts to restore life failed. The bodies were taken ashore.
 The boat was well back on it's way to the island before the fate of Hutchins was recalled. Then some one remember ed that he had seen Hutchins swimming strongly for Barren Island. It was too late then to change the boats course. for by that time the young man had either gone to the bottom had managed to reach the rocks.
 Hutchins was a student in the senior class of the Bangor Theological Semin- ary and had been filling pulpit at Sun set, on Deer Isle, for the summer. His home was in Billerica, Mass. A boat was sent to hunt for him as soon as the sur vvors reached land
 The boat sent to Barren Island to hunt for Hutehins returned unsuccessful this evening. It is considered practically cer- tain that Hutchins sank before he could II. l. -1- 4l..- IL