Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1888 — NINETEEN PEOPLE DROWNED. [ARTICLE]

NINETEEN PEOPLE DROWNED.

A dispatch from New Orleans of Friday, says: Captain Staples, of the steamer Gussie, from Bluefields, reports that on October 20, at 8 a. m., eightyfive miles south of Cape Gracias and thirteen miles from land, he picked up the dory of the schooner Caldwell, of New York, containing five of the crew and four passengers. The dory was leaking badly. Captain Staples took them all on board, and landed some at Cape Gracias. The schooner was bound from St.. Andrews Island to Old Providence Island with twenty-three passengers. She sprung a leak and sunk thirty-six miles northwest of Old Providence. The dory left the wreck without water or food, leaving nineteen men, women and children dinging to the schooner’s two booms, which were lashed together. When picked up, the nine men had been in the dory thirty-six hours.