People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1893 — FOUR SWEPT OVERBOARD. [ARTICLE]

FOUR SWEPT OVERBOARD.

*wo Seamen Drowned and Two Washed Hack on Deck During a Storm. Providence, R. l, Feb. 25.—The schooner Isaac T. Campbell, of Boston, with coal for this port from Baltimore, arrived here Thursday afternoon. The captain reports that on Monday morning, while off Hogg Island, a squall struck the vessel with terrific force, and it was found necessary to shorten sail and lay to. While occupied in furling the jib Mate Charles Olson, aged 29, of Boston, and George Lawrence, a native of Bangor, Me., qnd two other seamen were swept overboard, and Olson and Lawrence drowned, the other seamen being thrown back on the vessel by a heavy sea.