Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1907 — SIX OUT OF SEVEN DROWN [ARTICLE]

SIX OUT OF SEVEN DROWN

Sloop Capsizes, Being Hit by a Soelden Squall—Only One of Party Could Swim. Bangor, Me., July 10.—Six young men of a party of seven were drowned in Penobscot bay by the capsizing of the sloop Ruth E. Cumnock, of Brooksville. The victims are Harry Dugan, aged 18, sophomore in Bowdoln college; Amos Robinson, aged 17. and Raymond Smith and Fre.lorfik Ringwall, aged 19—all of Bangor; William Vague, aged 21, of South Brooksville; Royal Palmer, aged 19, of Bangor. The six Bangor youths recently went to the Hersey retreat at Sandy Point to spend the summer. They were invited by William D. Vague, of South Brooksville, to take a sail in bls boat to Islesboro. The sloop had reached the point off Castine when she was struck by a sudden squall and capsized. Laurent D. Hall, of Bangor, swam three-quarters of an hour and was rescued by a tug. The others sank within a few minutes.