Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-15
SIX ARE DROWNED
lin CAPSIzED BOAT
Only One of Party Survives
After Squall Turns Over
18-Foot SIoop.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
BOSTON, July 15.-Five young mel
and girl sank to death, one by one, IL
the bitter cold, wind-tossed brine of tn
Atlantic Sunday right and early yes
terday after they had chung for hour
to little sloop that had capsized in ;
sudden Squall few miles off Scituate.
One lone survivor, Baden Garceau, G.
Scituate and Boston, chung to the tum
bling wreck for hours after his mate!
had disappeared, and was saved at las
by the mackerel seiner st. Rita which
brought him and the body of the CIR
to Boston
The dead were as follows:
Willis Earle, 81, of 343 Spruce street
Kansas City.
Walter Kay Labire, 90, Youngstown
Ohio, graduate of Ohio State Univer-
eity.
John Blower Is. 3120 Gaylord ave-
nue., Pittsburgh, Pa.
Betty Munsell. 19, WATERFOWL, Mass.
David Gierasch, 81, Concord, Mass.
Charles E. Hail. 49, Cambridge, owner
and skipper of the Nomad.
Guard Boats Search.
The closing hours of the tragedy were
enacted after G.. Abeel Hall and John
Hall. father and brother of Charles,
had pressed Coast Guard boat into a
search for |ie craft, and later had OBJ
kained the services of three Coast Guard
SeStroyers and two SeaplaneS.
After Garceau had been landed at
Boston by Frank Favalora, captain of
the st. Rita, he went with his father,
Albert Garceau, Boston lawyer, to
the office of the harbormaSter, where
he told his story.
I'VE started out in Halls sloop from
Scituate at O'Clock Sunday" he said.
sTwo others who had planned to go
with us found they could not go.
ION the way to the pier, we met
Gierasch and the girl and invited them
20 60 along The boat was an 18-foot
boat knockabout. We went out miles
and decided to return. We got back
about 8 miles when a squall came up
and capsized us. The main sail was
up and the sheet tied.
Cling to Craft.
"Five Of the party climbed onto the
keel and two of us into the rigging.
Those In the rigging were Hall and
myself. Gierasch became panic strick-
en-. He screamed and three others Of
che party went into a panic.
"GieraSch went overheard twice and
hauled him back each time. GieraSch
went over a third time and as he did
30 he grabbed Blower by the leg.
then went overheard and rescued Blow
er. but Gierasch was swept away and
drowned.
THE waves then washed Blower off
and he was lost. The next to go was
Earle. who was clinging for his life to
the keel. Labire chung on until mid
night. when he was forced by the rush
ing water to relinquis hhis hold and
was drowned
During this period of time we saw
the New York boat go by and Coast
Guard boat about half a mile away.
Girl Remained Calm.
Following the disappearance of
Iabire, there remained only Hall, the
and chung with Hall to the keel, while I
stayed in the rigging. Eventually. the
girl collapsed and was swept of the
keel, but Hall saved her. Later the
girl and Hall we're forced of the keel
and I went to the rescue of both.
Finally Hall lost his hold and dis
appeared.
"At about $50 today the girl. despite
her valient efforts to cling on until a
vessel should come to our succor, gave
up the fight and hoated away from
the bobbing craft.
IT was picked up at o'clock six
miles OF Scituate by the skipper of the
st. Rita, a mackerel seiner."
Visited Yacht.
Capt. Fayalora, attracted by the
frantic signals of Garceau and the sight
OF the girls body. halted and took both
aboard. For an hour he and his men
attempted to revive the girl.
Capt. James Barry of the yacht Nep-
tune said his craft was anchored about
five miles Off Scituate last night and
that the members of the Inflated party
came aboard his vessel, were shown
around the yacht and then returned in
skiff to their own craft, in which
they started back toward shore.