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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1913
Page
18
Gloucester reports the fishing steamer Margaret D struck a reef on the west side of Milk Island in thick fog and heavy seas. Captain John Dashmer and his four crew members barely escaped with their lives.
The reef tore the hull and left a great hole in the side as waves wrecked the boat. The captain and crew escaped by swimming toward the island and endured hours on a rocky beach until a inbound schooner spotted them. Life savers recovered them. the vessel may be unsalvageable.
Andrew McCarthy, a former local businessman and father, failed to obtain a writ of habeas corpus to leave City Hospital where he is confined as a tuberculosis patient. Justice Braley remanded him to hospital superintendent Lewis Savage for custody.
The Joy line steamer Georgia with 150 passengers spent the day on a mud bank off Warwick Neck while entering Providence in heavy fog. It grounded and remained stuck until high tide when it escaped and landed its passengers. Communication was unavailable due to no wireless aboard.
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