Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1888 — FIVE PERSONS DROWNED. [ARTICLE]

FIVE PERSONS DROWNED.

A party, of sixteen ladies and gentlemen hired the steam yacht Olivette and left Newark, N. J., at 8 o’clock Sunday night. It being flood tide, the jetty, at the mouth of the bay, was covered with water. The pilot had scarcely got his bearings when he heard a sharp, grating sound, and realizing that he was on the jetty, stopped the engine. Several of the male passengers jumped over on the jetty, and in doing so the boat lurched and slid off into deep water. The. girls then made a rush for the side of the boat. This caused her to keel over suddenly, and in a second she turned bottom side up. The air was immediately filled with screams for help from a score of persons struggling for their lives in the water. Their cries were heard at Greenville and other points on the bay, and rescuers soon went to the scene of the accident. But when the boats arrived it was found that six of the party had been swept away and drowned. The bodies all have been recovered.