The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-05-06 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

FATAL BOAT ACCIDENTS.  Two fatal boat accidents have occurred off Dover. In one case the Forest King, a Deal boat, was being towed down channel by a steamer, and, when just below the Gull buoy at half-past 10, the rope became entangled, and the boat capsized. Two of the men, Charles Erridge and Charles Bailey, were drowned. The other boatman, Stephen Penn, who had his oilskin on, was in the water over an hour swimming about, the accident having remained unnoticed, as the steamer was going half-speed. A boat was afterwards lowered, and Penn was rescued in an exhaasted condition, and brought to the National Sailors' Home. In the other ease, Mr. J. Wood, of Dover, was in a sailing-boat with his son and Mr. Marsh, when it was capsized, and he was drowned. It was upset by the wash of the Ostend steamer, which was passing near the mouth of the harbour. A boat was lowered from the steamer, and the son and Mr. Marsh were picked up. . .  A sad boating accident occurred at Conisborough, near Doncaster, on Saturday. Mr. Lrebtree, aged 25, was rowing his sweetheart, Mary Davies, and her sister, in a boat, when the sister in attempting to land :lipped into the water. Mr. Crabtree, though unable to swim, jumped in and succeeded in getting her to land. Mary Davies in her terror leaped from the boat, and in his attempt to rescue her, Crabtree was carried away by the current, and both were drowned before the eyes of the other lady. The City Coroner (Mr. E. L Hussey) held an inquest on Saturday on the body of Miss Ellen Louisa Goodall, aged 18, of Corn Market-street, Oxford, who was owned in the Isis owing to the capsizing of a boat, which had been attached to a river steamer. Mr. John H. L. Sherratt, said he and his brother, with the two Misses Goodall, went for a row on the Isis in the evening. On their return journey, just after getting through IMey Lock, he asked the engine driver of the Alaska steamer' which was stationed opposite the Isis, if he eould tow up behind him. He received permission, and had done this on previous occasions. The head rope was attached to the stern bar of the steamer. After proceeding a short distance they began to ship a lot of water very fast, and he pulled out his knife and cut the rope and released the boat from the swell of the steamer. The boat gradually sank. They all clung to the boat on rising to the surface; it turned over three times and it was the third time it went over that they lost Miss Ellen Goodall. Two University watermen plunged into the river to their assistance, and the steamer was stopped as soon as possible. The three of them succeeded in reaching the bank, but Miss Ellen Goodall could not be found. It was owing to her clutching the boat that it turned over the third time. He had tied a small boat on to steamers dozens of timee.—William Henry Beesley, University waterman, deposed to finding the body at a point where the river was about 11 feet deep. He did not think the head rope of the boat was sufficiently long, and when a boat was behind • steamer it wanted • man to properly handle the rudder lines, because the boat required looking after. The steamer was going quite steadily.—The jury returned a verdict to the effect that Miss Goodall was accidently drowned, and added a rider to the effect that the practice of attaching small boats to river steamers should be dia. °enraged.  The wife of a publican living at St. Pancras cemmitted suicide by cutting her throat. The wreck of the barque Lady Lampeon is reported in the Pacific Ocean. The Lady Lampoon was a Sunderland built barque of 424 tons, She was going from Sydney to Honolulu with a cargo of coals, and was wrecked on Palmyra Island, halfway between Hawaii and her destination. A portion of the crew in a small boat managed to reach Honolulu, but it was not stated whal had become of the remainder. Honolulu is about 1,000 miles from Palmyra Island. Mr. Webb, the famous mathematical coach, of St. John's College, is not only a senior wrangler, and ‘' many  Cambridr, ... e educational  father  senioi wranglers, Hi advice for r the angle, and L and the Grafitti t. three jokes out of' his pupils "not to I to try and get taut  it a billiard player and a joker. Mg following cannons, "Bisect e straight," is still remembered; a us that he frequently makes me piece of string, when he bids be slack, not to get tight, but  making  4, but