Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1909 — OARSMAN IS DROWNED [ARTICLE]

OARSMAN IS DROWNED

Shells Are Swamped In Regatta—Narrow Escape For Others. Boston, July 6. —An accident and a fatality attended a July Fourth regatta of the New England Amateur Rowing association. Edward Morley, an eighteen year old boy, rowing in the St. Alphonsus eight-oarefl junior crew of floxbury. Mass., was drowned while clinging to a tow rope to which he had been helped by two boatmateß after their shell had capsized. Meanwhile five other crews, which had been contesting, were struggling in the water. The six shells had been swamped.