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Death of a Seaman from a
Fish-Hook Wound.

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[ SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE BOSTON HERALD ]

GLOUCHESTER. June 1, 1887. Schooner
Jamestown, owned by George Steele, sailed
from this port March 31 on a codfishing voyage
to the Western Banks, and since that time
nothing has been heard from her, and conse-
quently her ownders today give her up as lost,
as it is throught she must have floundered in
the great gale of April 26, which swept over
the banks. She carried a crew of 12 men, who
had sailed many voyages from this port to the
banks. George Curtis, her master, was a pa-
tive of Maine, and one of the most experienced
skippers that ever sailed from here. He
leaves a widow and family residing in Salem.
Johnston Robinson, cook, leaves a widow
and familly in East Boston. The the crew
George W. Hartford belonged in Geroge-
and two children in this city; ALexander and
Charles McLeod, brothers, and John Mathe-
son were natives of St. Anne's, C.B.; Thomas
Daly and Morris Frost, belonging in Argyle,
N. S., and George Melanson and Bradford
Deveau of Plympton, N. S., were all single;
Daniel Welsh leaves a widow in this city.
The Jamestown was a fine vessel, built at
Essex in 1876. She measured 6555 tones, and
was insured in the Gloucester Mutual Fishing
Insurance Company for $4125 on the vessel
and outfits.
Schooner Annie Wesley arrived from the
Grand banks this evening, and Capt. Thorpe
reports that on May 23 John Fowler, one of
the crew died on board from the effects of
sticking a fish hook in his hand, causing blood
poisoning. He was buried at sea. He be-
longed n this city and was 27 years of age
and unmarried.
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