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Show SQUALL CAPS! SLOOP PLEASURE IK DRQWHED Sad Ending of Excursion, Seven Persons Per-sons Out of Prty of Ten Being Drowned In Pe-nobicot Pe-nobicot Day. Deer Island. Mo. Seven summor visitors out of a party ot ten wcro drowned by tho capsizing ot a thirty-flvo thirty-flvo foot sloop la I'onobscot bay of this Island on Tueiday. With Captain Samuel Haskell tho party started out Tuesday afternoon, for a Ball In Penobscot bay. Tho sloop was of tho "open" variety. It had no dock forward nnd no cabin. It contalnod no ballast, as tho party of ten weighted the boat down qulto, heavily. Captoln Haskell, an experienced ex-perienced navigator in these watcrB, thought that tho craft would bo wotl' balanced. Tho party had icarcoly boon gono an hour boforo the wind froBhonod up, heeling tho sloop' woll over. Thoro wag no thought of danger until tho nftornoon was drawing to a close, when Captain Haskell decldod that tho wind was too hoavy and startod on a tack home yard. ' All tho party were perched high upon tho weather ldo, as tho Bloopi cut through tho wares with tho water 'almost coming over tho gunwales ot tho leo Bide, when Captain Haskcll gavo a shout of warning that ho was going to tack and then throw over tho tillor. Just at this moment tho boat roso high upon a wave, exposing her to the? full brunt of tho wind. An unusually-heavy unusually-heavy gust struck her, nnd In a twinkling tho sloop went over on her beams ends nnd the party ot ten was.' thrown Into tho water. Ot thoso drownod, tlx woro women. Tho captain nnd two of tho men sue-cocdod sue-cocdod in clinging to tho boat until asslBtanco nrrlvcd. |
