Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1891 — DROWNED WHILE YACHTING. [ARTICLE]

DROWNED WHILE YACHTING.

f . Two Hen and Four Children Lost While Cruising In Dorchester Bay. A yachting party consisting,of four men and live children were cruising In Dorchester Bay, near Boston, Sunday afternoon, when the boat capsized, and two men and soar children were drowned. The skipper, T M. Burke, agvd 4G '■ears, was among

' ■ ! the victims, and none of the rescued ca* tel! what caused the acoi&ent except thai; jt took place while the boat was tacking, 1 Those drowned, besides Burke, wereThad-.< dens Manthou, Burke’s daughter Nellie, j aged eleven years, his son James, aged eight. Iris nephew and twice, Thomas and Annie Carmody, aged eleven abd fifteen years, respectively. The party all . lived in South Boston, and were cruising arounc Dorchester bay. -Louis Keeser pulled-haL" a mile to the sjidt in a yacht's tender and saved two of the party—Vincent Burke, aged fourteen years, and Fergus Churchill, aged thirty years—who were holding on to the capsized boat and who were sc exhausted that it required half an hour’? work to resuscitate them. Special offlcei Barry rescued Thomas Balkard, agec thirty, and recovered the six bodies.