Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1920 — EIGHT SEAMEN PERISH [ARTICLE]

EIGHT SEAMEN PERISH

CREW OF BMALL BOAT DIE IN • REBCUE ATTEMPT. Craft-Overturned While Greet Northern'* Men Were Trying to Aid Powhatan Passengers. Halifax, N. S., Jan. 23.— Eight lives were lost when a boat from the United States transport Northern Pacific overturned in an attempt to transfer passengers from the disabled United States transport Powhatan, according to officers of the steamship Bardic, which arrived here. The Bardic’s officers said this statement was based on a wireless message received while the vessel was on the way to Halifax after having failed in an attempt to take the disabled transport in tow. Officials of the navy department here said they had no record of this message. A wireless message from Captain Randall of the Powhatan said he had started for Halifax in tow of the Canadian government steamer Lady Lauri^r. He announced that there was no change in the condition of the ship and that a transfer of passengers would not be attempted everything is absolutely favorable."