Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1910 — BOAT SINKS, 29 MISSING [ARTICLE]

BOAT SINKS, 29 MISSING

Sailors on Return to Ship from Shore Leave Drowned. In a statement authorized by Rear Admiral Y reeland, given out by GapL Thomas S. Rodgers of the battleship New Hampshire, the number of the New Hampshire’s sailors who are believed to have been on the battleship’s sailing launch when it filled with water and sank in the Hudson and who are still missing is set down at twenty-nine. Twelve members of the liberty party of the New Hampshire who were not known to have been in the sailing launch, but who are still missing, were noted in Capt. Rodgers’ list. The cutter, in charge of Midshipman Chevalier, was being towed by the steam launch of the battleship According to those who saw the vessels leave the pier the cutter was sc filled that men were standing in her bow. She was low in the water and there was strong tide running. A large wave struck the cutter broadside and" all on board were plunged into the ricer.