People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1894 — IGNORED THEIR CRIES. [ARTICLE]

IGNORED THEIR CRIES.

Thins Persons Drowned in San Francisco Bay After a Long Struggle for Life. San Francisco, March 20.—Mrs. Mollie Martin, wife of a saloonkeeper, her daughter Ora, aged 6, and Miss Nellie McCarthy, who lived with the Martins, were drowned in the bay Sunday by the capsizing of a yacht They were out on a pleasure trip with Peter Thornburg, a Swedish sailor. The latter gave the tiller to Mrs. Martin. while he adjusted the -sails. She was inexperienced, threw -the boat too close to the wind and it Uurned over. All managed to hold on to Jhe overturned by at, which drifted with the ebb tide past the British ship Mary Down. Thornburg claims their cries for assistance were heard, but the officers refused to lower a boat, throwing out a life buoy instead. The women, exhausted, finally loosened their holds and sunk. Thornburg was rescued after being two hours in the water.