People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1894 — COLLEGE MEN DROWN. [ARTICLE]

COLLEGE MEN DROWN.

Four Harvard Student* Perish While Taking a Sail. Boston, May 16. —Last Sunday four Harvard students met their death as a result of a capsize in the harbor. They were John Farnum Brown, of Philadelphia; W. Campbell Trusdell, of Newark, N. J.; Edward Stanton Bach, of New York city, and Franklin Whitall, of Philadelphia. Sunday afternoon they hired a catboat of Henry T. Hutchins, of City Point, South Boston, for an afternoon’s sail down the harbor. The boat and the men who hired it failed to return. Monday night Superintendent Bradley, of the farm school on Thompson’s island, picked up near the island a pair of oars and a crochet to a boom and two coats. Joseph K. Hutchins, son of the boat builder, found the catboat capsized Tuesday afternoon between Thompson's island and what is known as the “Middle Shaft.” There were two bodies in it. When the boat was found one of the bodies was tangled in thesail,which prevented it from sinking. The other body was grasping the gunwale of the boat with both hands. Later in the afternoon the bodies were identified as that of John Farnum Brown and Edward Stanton Bach. The police are dredging for the other bodies.