Show M SQUAll SLOOP PLEASURE SEEKERS fRS OW I Excursion Seven P Persons Persons Per Per- r- r Sad Ending of I sons sons Out of a Party of of Ten Drowned In Penobscot Pc- Pc Being nobscot Bay E Deer Island M Mo Seven Soe Seven summer e of ot a party o of ot ten were were visitors out thirty thirty- J by the capsizing of ot a drowned In Penobscot bay ot of foot toot sloop this Island on Tuesday Captain Samuel Haskell th the y- y With party started out Tuesday afternoon for sail In Penobscot bay Tho The for a sloop was of the open variety It had bad no deck forward and no cabin It contained no ballast as the party of ot ten weighted the tho boat down quite heavily Captain Haskell an experienced experienced ex ex- navigator In these waters thought t that nt the craft would be well welt I j Balanced lanct I Tho p party had scarcely been gone gone- an M hour before the wind freshened freshened- up heeling the sloop well over There was no thought of ot danger until tho afternoon was drawing t to a close when Captain Haskell decided d that tho the wind Ind was was' was too too heavy and started on a a atack tack homeward All tho the party were perched upon the weather side as the sloop sloop- cut through the waves with the water almost coming over the gunwales of the lee side when Captain Haskell gave a shout of ot warning that he lie was was- going to tack rock and then threw over the the- tiller WIer Just at this moment the thc boat rose rosO high upon a wave exposing her to the full brunt of at the wind An unusually unusually- heavy gust struck her and In t ni It twinkling the sloop went over on her hel beams ends and the party of ot ten was thrown into the water Of ot those drowned six were women The captain and two of ot the men succeeded succeeded suc sue In clinging to the boat until assistance arrived |