The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-19
TEN DROWN ON
PLEASURE TRIP
Sudden Squat Capsizes
Sloop.
SMALL SCHOONER KEELs OVER
Two Litde Gifls Among Drowned
Passengers
TAG nsss sseeess- h Re.euisE oaIy
rwsavs q Exe-rsie. Party ..
New rsrk H.rser--survsv-
ers IN Hospital.
80 Il

drowned this afternoon two OF them
little girls. when the excursion sioop
Rovana carrying twenty-five passeng-
ers was capsized By q sudden sauail In
The list Of dead. as ascertained to-
night, follows:
Selma semeason, New York.
Ella Olsen, Flat Bush. l.. l.
Olga snd Selma KRudsen, sisters, ~
and II years. respectively. Brooklyn.
John Chffsfenecn, Brooklyn.
~ Abraham Hunson. Brooklyn.
Abraham Jamison, Brooklyn.
Alice Engleson. Brooklyn. ~
Peter Pteiscn, Brooklyn.
John Thompson. Brooklyn.
The captain Of the Roxsna and the
~ survivors were picked up with great
difi5culty IN rough and sloppy sea
by the tug Lamont.
The Roxana with her skipper. cap
tain S&mueison. was chartered at Uim-
or Beach, Brooklyn. this afternoon By
q party 81 Swedes from Brooklyn for q
sail across the bay - Midland Beach,
Staten Island and back. The first leg
OF the voyage was made without mis-
hap and eli hands piled ashore to
make merry. Beer was served and
haxy account. of the accident
: I'D 5
All afternoon there was stih breeze
from the Southwest V RI. = left nasty
cross sea. Near four O'Clock the Rox-
ana, reeifng ilomeward ac-oss the bay
with all the sail good Judgment would
permit. slipped into q squsll. She lay
over untl the copper plates giistcned
% etne sun - the angie shs asct
steepenem to the ehsfy m .'s'l, IN neg
zee ano = Women scfsanisu anu ssfan'-
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ma had' hean i,,tt hefors, IL c,,il,I reach
her. ten Of me passengers had hons
down. Life lines and buoys we're
thrown ID. those stiii afloat ami after
a few minutes Of brisk and anxioas
work ali In slight were taken anesrd
the Lamont
The Survivors. thoroughly exhausted
pftai on Staten Island.
story efga Survivor.
Miss a.sora Hendrickson, one Of the
survivors, said: A
when the boat sank we were left
with nothing to keep us up except some
empty beer casks and some boxes that
floated to the surface. A beer case
Kent me M until was rescued Every
body who did not siak was hghting
ana trying 10 hold on &c the case. Time
affar time man ana. women piled ON top
~ me ana we sank. but i ged
te keen INV grin on the case.
.captain samueison was a real
hero He was about the only person
aboard who could swim and he did HIS
bast TO save us. II there had been two
~ three other men ike him. everybody
,y,,,n hava heer saved. Al once time
he held nm two women at once.
Fafar aergland. another survivor.
said that samuelson was the man who
yainad fame N 1885 nv sailing across
tha eAtiantic with his brother Frank In
Z smaiI, hoat u
Rsrria nd declined TO discuss the at
t,tSda ~ the men tcwards the women.
srSs twn ]lfttle rfrla VINO were drowned,
~ .@iA wsrs saieep In the cabin and
hsd NJ chance to escape.
!. : - ------
cav Mare Lo.e I,syea,
sryaS.r. YORK sJulv 1s.--Sixteen per-
sons ave az them women. met death
~ drnwnlnr. in the waters either sur
,a,,nairg ar IN the vicinity of New
y