People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1893 — Welsh Excursionists Capsize a Beat in Swansea Bay. [ARTICLE]

Welsh Excursionists Capsize a Beat in Swansea Bay.

London, Aug. B.—News of a sad accident to a party of excursionists was received Monday evening from Port Talbot, a town in Glamorganshire, Wales. Twenty-eight, pleasure-seekers from Ystrad took a boat at Port Tal but and in spite of repeated warnings ofdanger, the boat being overloaded, put out into Swansea bay. A heavy sea hit the boat, causing the occupants to rush to the side, when it capsized and all ■were thrown into the water. Twentytwo, including several women and children, were drowned.