People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1895 — Party of Excursionists Drown. [ARTICLE]

Party of Excursionists Drown.

Norfolk, Va.. July 10.—Near Wauclrapreague, Va., yesterday a sailboat with a party of thirteen excursionists on board capsized in midstream. Only four men were in the party and these rendered all possible aid to the struggling women, five of whom were drowned. One of the men was dragged under and drowned by the girl he was trying to save. The dead are as follows: Janie Scott, Helen Brockover, Lillian Gregory, Maggie Buskon. Juanita Burnett, John Tait. A schooner yacht, the Christine, picked up the survivors.