The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-09-04
Summer Visitors Went Out for
Final Trip Before Leaving
For Their Homes.
Only Three Out of a Party of
Ten Were Saved From
Watery Grave.

Deer Isle, Me, Sept 2.-Seven sum-
mer visitors out of party of ten
were drowned by the capsiZing of
35-foot sleop in Penobscot bay, off this
island. The drowned are:
Miss Alice Zorro, Washington, D.
c.: Miss Eleanor Zorro, Washington,
D. c.; Miss Kellogg, Baltimore; Lutte
Kellogg, Baltimore; Mrs. Lucy s.,
Crawley, Philadelphia; Miss Elizabeth
c. Evans, Mount Holyoke Seminary,
Mass; Jason c. Hutchins, Bangor,
Me-
The saved are Captain Haskell, Deer
Isle; Professor Edward Crawley, Uni.
versity of Pennsylvania; 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 had
been saved, as when last seen he was
making brave struggle through the
choppy seas toward Barren island
nearby. A boat was sent from this
place in an effort to locate him or his
body
With Captain Samuel Haskell, the
party of light-hearted summer people
started out for a sail in Penobscot bay.
1t was drawing near the close of the
vacation season for most of them and
they had planned this as their last
outing together. The wind was from
the southwest and squally. The sloop
was Of the &open" variety. 1t had no
deck forward and no cabin, as many of
the small Maine boats have, and It
contained no ballast as the party of
ten weighted the boat down quite
Heavily and Captain Haskell, an ex-
perienced navigator in these waters,
thought that the craft would be well
balanced.
Wind Too Heavy for the Boat.
The party had scarcely been gone
an hour before the wind freshened up,
heeling the sloop we'll over and dash
ing the spray upon the occupants Cap
tain 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 al
most 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 lust at this moment the boat
rose high up on wave, exposing her
y to the full brunt of the wind. Al TN
usually heavy gust struck her and in
twinklins the sloop went over on her
beam ends aud the party of ten were
i thrown into the water.
] For one brief moment it was every
enc for oneself Captain Haskell,
however, took iH-the situation at a
glance He saw that the boats ten
der was right side up and shouting to
Professor Crawley and Henry Evans,
who were nearest to him, he directed
them to make for the tender, doing so
at the same time himself Professor
Crawler, however, still chung to the
overturned sloop. looking for his wife,
while Evans was trying vainly to To-
cate his sister.
Haskell gained the tender, clam
bered aboard, cut it loose from the
overturned sloop, brought the boat up
near Crawley and Evans and helped
them aboard, persuading them that
the only way they could help the wo-
menfolks was from the rowboat. But
even then the women were beyond
| help Weighted down by their water
soaked clothing and chilled through
!. by the cold water, they had been un-
able to keep themselves afioat. Some
had grabbed the person nearest them
by the neck and in some instances
they had gone down together, clasped
in each others arms.
The accident had been seen from
i Eagle island and as soon as possible
a sloop was sent out to pick. up the
! survivors The rescuing 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 They were Lutte Kellogg and
Miss Evans. They were unconscious
and although, the rescuers worked
vigorously over them all efforts to re-
store life failed. The bodies were
taken ashore.