People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1894 — FOUR DROWNED. [ARTICLE]
FOUR DROWNED.
DlsaHter to a Boating Party on a Keser voir at Brewster, N. Y. Brewster, N. Y., June 12.—Four of a party of six were drowned Sunday afternoon by the upsetting of a boat on the Ulley Foster reservoir. A party consisting of Bessie and Maggie Blainey, Kate and Martin McClusker, Thomas Scanlon and Patrick Marooney went out for a row on the reservoir. At 4:30 o'clock the boat overturned, throwing all the occu } fen into the water. Kate McClusker caught the upturned boat and held ast. Patrick Aspen and Thomas Donohue, who were in a boat some distance away, rescued her. Patrick Marooney started for the shore and was picked up by Thomas Lynch. The bodies of Bessie Blainey and Scanlon were recovered.
