Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1884 — Four Fishermen Drowned. [ARTICLE]

Four Fishermen Drowned.

[Portland (Oregon) dispatch.] A special from Astoria, Oregon, states that four men engaged in salmon-fishing were drowned near Columbia River and swept out by the tide to the open sea and lost. The loss of life by drowning among fishermen this season has been very heavy. The season is not much more than half over, and it is estimated that between thirty and forty have been carried out to sea and perished. Many have been lost and no report ever made of the accident.