Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-04-10
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Two more bodies of seamen who lost
their lives when the steamer John
Dwight, believed to have been a rum
runner, sank in Vineyard Sound last
Friday. were identified tonight as Da-
vid J. Murphy and "Flukey" Anderson,
both of Cambridge The identification
was made by Raymond I. Gormley of
Cambridge. Murphy's brother-in-law.
Four of the eight men whose bodies
We're taken from the Sound are still
unidentified
Gormlev said that his brother-in-
law. more than week ago. told him
he was going TO sea. He said he paid
no attention to the remark at the time.
IL was only when he read in a Boston
paper Saturday descriptions of the
drowned men that he became convinced
that Murphy was among them, he said.
Neither of the two men. Gormley
said. had ever been to sea before to his
knowledge. Both were employed as
teamsttrs. He said he knew Anderson
from boyEood days but did not know
his first name. only his nickname.
Murphy was 80 Years old and Anderson
about -. he said. Roth were single.
Earlier in the day two other bodies
were identified in Captain John
i. King of Brooklyn. y. Y. and Can
tain John Carmichael of Jersey City.
| Those who identified two of the bodies
here as those Of James II. Nelson of
Brooklyn. Il chief marine engineer, and
Harry King Of Brooklyn. a seaman.
son OF. the missing captain. said that
! Captain Carmichael and King, long
time, cronics. shipped together, with
| Harry King accompanying his father.
They were certain that more of the bod
les here was THAI OF either captain.
In the Identification of Harry King,
pane was given to the body of the
man whose ingenious and stubborn
fight for life was mutely told in the
small boat in which he was drowned.
Paddles contrivcd out of wooden stripe
torn from he boats sheathing and held
in place, while the shipwreckcd man
pulled for his life. with pieces of a belt
serving as oarlocks. We're found with
the body. Indications were that King
had worked in the otherwise oarless
and slllleSs boat until he fell exhaust
cd in the bottom. where a few inches
of water that had seaped in through
the seams caused him to drown.
The body of King was identified by
his brother. John F. King. Jr.. of
Brooklyn He said their father. Cap
tain John +. King. and Harry had left
home about two weeks ago to ship to-
eether, but without saying where they
were bound. He said they expected to
be back Friday. On Saturday their
mother became alarmed over their non
appearance. he said. and telephoned the
wife of Captain Carmichael. They're
all dead" was the word she gave, &C.
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newspaper accounts of teh sinking of
TIE John Dwight.
Miss Amelia Nelson, sister of James
II. Nelson. identified his body. AL
though she lived with her brothers
family in Brooklyn, she said she did
rot know what boat he had signed on,
Nelson having said only that he was
going somewhere to take a boat to
New York. She came here fearing he
might be enc of the dead. and found
his body. Nelson. 4S years old. had a
wife ard three children. Harry King,
81. had a wife and two children.
Searchers went out to the waters
south of this island. in the vicinity of
No Mans Land, today to see if there
was any wreckage there from the
Dwight. towboat captain having re-
ported he saw boat and some timbers
drifting in that direction. 1t was
thought this might be the lifcboat
missing from the Dwight in which
Captains King and Carmichael as the
master and mate would have probably
left the ship when she was found to
lie sinking. A report today that the
boat had been found with two holes
sove in the bow proved erroneous. the
boat recognized being that of wrecked