BOATING FATALITY.
FOURTEEN YOUNG PEOPLE
DROWNED.
PORTSMOUTH (N. H.), July IT,
A nineteen-foot whaleboat containing- seventeen waiters and waitresses employed at the Oceanic House, Star Island, who had gone out in the bay this afternoon on a pleasure ;trip» in charge of Skipper Fred Miles, <a?" sized during- a sudden squally aM fourteen of the occupants were drowned. The other three were rescued by fishermen who put out froni the shore in their dories. All' the others were taken, from the water by, fishermen, and then to the ; island, where they were worked over or » long time by two doctors, but without success. Farrington and AlwaM were both law students at. Harrari University, rooming at Forsyte Hut; Both were good swimmers, an<Mo1 * their lives in trying to rescue tie others. The victims were all 7°?** people, whose ages would not averag* over 20 years. Most of the Massachusetts girls were school teacher* who have passed the summer vacation here, for several years in serving ** waitresses in the hotel.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 193, 15 August 1902, Page 4
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