Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1883 — FOOD FOR FISHES. [ARTICLE]

FOOD FOR FISHES.

Seven Men Drowned in Boston Harbor. A telegram from Boston says: As the tug O. H. Herzey was coming up the harbor this evening, two men were seen in the water, one clinging to an empty beer-keg and the other to an oar. They were taken on board, and found to be too drunk to give an intelligible story for some lime. When they had got partly sobered off they told a pitiful tale. They, with six others, had started in the schooner-yacht Skylark from South Boston to attend the boat-race at the Point of Pines After the postponement they started home, and in a squall were capsized, and the other six men were drowned. The men lost were: David Butler, Matthew Kennedy, James Wood, James Cleary, Bichard O Brien, one unknown man. In a regatta of the South Boston Yacht Club a small boat got in the way of the sloop Yiolet, and was run down. John Oadigan was drowned and two other men thrown into the water, but rescued.