The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-02
WOMEN HAD NO
CHANCE FOR
THEIR LIVES
Seven Persons Out of a Party
of Ten Drowned in Pc
nObScot Bay.
SL00P TURNED OVER
BY A SUDDEN SQUALL
VICTIMS WERE SUMMER VISIT
ORS OUT FOR A DAYS
PLEASURE.

Deer Island, Me-. Sept 1.-seven
summer visitors out of Il party of ten
were drowned by the capsizing of a
thirty-hve-foot sloop in Penobscot bay
OF this island today.
The Drowned.
Miss Alice Zorro, Washington. d. C.
Miss Eleanor Zorro. Washington. ID.
c.
Miss Kellogg. Baltimore.
Lutte Kellogg, Baltimore.
Mrs. Lucy 5. Crawleys Philadelphia.
Miss Elizabeth G. Evans, Mount Holy
oke seminary. Massachusetts.
Jason c. Hutchins, Bangor, Me.
The Saved.
Captain Haskell Deer Island.
Professor Edwin s. Crawley, Phila-
delphia. University of Pennsylvania.
husband of Mrs. Crawley.
Henry b. Evans, Mount Holyoke,
brother of Miss Elizabeth Evans.
The bodies of Lutte kellogg and Miss
Evans were recovered.
There was some hope that Mr..
Hutchins has been saved, as when last
seen he was making a brave struggle
through the choppy waters towards
Barren island. nearby. a boat was
fort to locate him or his body.
No Ballast Aboard.
With Captain Samuel Haskell the
party start out this afternoon for a
fail i'm Penobscot bay. The sloop was
Of the open" variety. IL had no deck
forward, and no cabin. 1t contained no
ballast. as the party of ten weighted
the boat down quite heavily. 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. There was
no thought of danger until the after
noon was drawing TO close. when
Captain Haskell decided that the wind
was too heavy and started on a tack
homeward.
All the party were perched high upon
the weather side. as the sloop cut
through the waves with the water al
most coming over the gunwales of the
Ice side. when Captain Haskell gave a
shout OF warning that he was going 10
tack and then threw over the tiller.
Party Thrown Into Water
Just at this moment the boat rose
high upon a wave. exposing her TO the
full brunt of the wind. An unusually
heavy gust struck her. and in a twin
king the sloop went over GA her beams
ends and the party of ten was thrown
into the water.
For one brief moment II was every
pne for ones self Captain Haskell.
however, had been clinsils TO the sheet
ard his tenacious hold had not been
loosened by the sudden plunge INTO the
cold waters. He saw thai the boat
tender was right side up. and shouting
to Professor Crawley and Henry Evans
he directed them TO make for the ten
der. doing so at the same time him
self. Professor Crawley, however. still
chung to the overturned sloOp. looking
for his wife. while Evans was trying
vainly 10 locate his sister.
Women Beyond Help.
In the meantime Haskell had gained
the tender and had clambered aboard.
Cutting il loose from the overturned
sloop. he picked up the oars and bring
Ing the boat up near Crawley and
Evans helped them aboard. persuading
them that the only way they could help
the women folks was from the row.
boat. But even then the women were
beyond help. Weighted down by their
water-soaked clothing and chilled. they
bad been unable TO keep themselves
.Rf1oat Some had grabbed the person
nearest them by the neck, and In some
instances they had gone down together,
casped In each others arms
Men Could Not Assist.
The three men i'm the tender found
that they were almost as incapable OF
giving assistance i'm their boat as they
had been in the water. The wind was
too high and the sea too rough. The
upset. however. had been seen from
Eagle island. and as soon as possible a
sloop was sent out TO pick up the sur
vivors. The rescuing party reached the
tender just In time and pulled the three
exhausted men aboard. OF the rest o.
the party but two were in sight and
the boat headed for them. They Were
Lutte Kellogg and Miss Evans. They
were Unconscious. and although the
rescuers worked vigorously over them
all efforts to restore life failed.
The boat was well back on its way
10 the island before the fate of Hutch
{ ins was recalled. Then some one re-
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