People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1893 — FISHERMEN LOST. [ARTICLE]

FISHERMEN LOST.

Record of the Gloucester Season—Ten Vessels and Fifty-Seven Victims. Gloucester, Mass., Oct. 25.—The closing of the fishing season tells a melancholy story of disaster as well as success and gain. During the year there have been lost at sea from this port fifty-seven men, leaving ten widows and thirtytwo children. Ten vessels, valued at about J 60,000, founded or stranded. From 1880, since a record has been kept, to 1893 586 vessels have been lost, of the value of $2,000,000. The nurttber of lives lost is 3,231.