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      A Deadly Fall. ____ A Sailor Plunges from the Cross Trees of the Schooner Bentley, Eighty-five Feet to the Deck - A Rotten Rope. _____ About 8 o'clock last evening, Andrew Skillin, of West Eighth street between Seneca and Schuyler, a sailor on the schooner J. ...

      Along the Docks. Hon. A.C. Mattoon arrived here at 6:30 A.M. today with the engine and boiler of the steam barge Ellsworth from Stony Island. After a week's hard work with sixteen men under the eficient management of John E. Riley, the task of raising the heavy engine and boiler …

      The Ellsworth's Machinery Next week Hon.A.C. Msttoon will pobably raise the machinery of the propeller Ellsworth, sunk at Stony Island. There is considerable talk of building a first freight and passenger boat to run between Oswego and the river. It is believed that a safe, ...

      The New Steamer and Her Route. ____ Hon. A.C. Mattoon has contracted the timber for the passenger and freight propeller which he proposes to build this winter, and work will be commenced probably about the first of January. She is to be 110 ft. keel, 120 ft, over all, 20 …

      Important Changes in the Life Services at this Point Captain John Blackburn, keeper of the life saving station at this port has received an official communication from Capt. E.P. Dobbins of Buffalo, superintendent, informing him that a full paid crew will be kept at the Oswego ...

      Life Saving Services To be Strengthened and Improved at all the Principal Points on the Lakes - Last year's Report A short time since the three lake superintendents, Captain D.P. Dobbins of the ninth district, which includes Lakes Erie and Ontario, Captain Sawyer of the ...

      Narrow Escape of the Barges from Destruction. Saturday afternoon considerable excitement resulted from an attempt to drop the Ogdensburg coal barges below the bridge. The tugs C.P. Morey and W. H. Wheeler took the barges Hattie. L. Johnson in tow and was part way down the river, ...

      Along the Docks The old schooner Carleton, which has for a long time been an eyesore to spectators on the lower bridge, is being dismantled today. John Gibson, who is doing the work, says he will break up the hull for kindling wood if he does not succeed in selling …

      Along the Docks A long looked for effort to remove the old burned hulk of the schooner Powhattan from near the lower bridge is, at least, being made. One of Dobbie's steam pumps is at work on her today with a force of men and she will be raised and …

      Henderson Harbor, Sept. 11. - The September fishing at Henderson Harbor has never been better than this year. Splendid catches of bass are made daily and over twenty-five muskelunge have been taken this month. Two were taken yesterday, one of which weighed 25 lbs. The notable ...

      The Gardner and Barges Off. _____ How They Went on the Shoal - Cleverly Released by the Morey and Manhattan. ____ The tug Gardner and barges which were ashore on Galloo shoal arrived in this port about 9 o'clock last night. The Gardner and her barges ran on during ...

      Mr. Mattoon's New Steamer. Mr. John E. Riley has just completed a handsome model for a steamboat which Hon. A.C. Mattoon contemplates building. The proposed steamer is to be of the following dimension: 98 feet overall; 17 feet 10 inches beam; 8 feet depth of hold. She will be ...

      THE GREAT DISASTER Full list of the Lost and Saved -- The Property Loss Valued at About $ 40,000 -- No Insurance -- A Review of the Dreadful Calamity. ___________________________ There seems this morning to be very little to add to the very full and graphic story of ...

      The Alanson Sumner at Halifax Acadian Recorder (Halifax) June 25: the American steam tug Alanson Sumner: arrived off the mouth of the harbor about midnight, or one o'clock this morning, and had to lay off three or four hours owing to the heavy fog which obscured the entrance. She ...

 Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), June 28, 1879     Old Zack. Barnes. _____ Death of the Most Notable Man in the Early History of Boating on the Erie - The Murderer of Van Schaik and His Eventful Life. ____ Zachariah Barnes died in Forestport, Oneida county, a few days ago, aged about 67 years. Zack. Barnes was one ...

      * Clara Hill of Fair Haven, two masted schooner, 16.09 tons, 45'x12'x5' US Registry No. 125753. Enrolled 4 Sept. 1879 by Charles S. Hill of Fair Haven. Later listed in records as "wrecked."

      The O.M. Bond Ashore and Sunk. Mr. J.H. McCollum received a despatch this morning from Capt. S. Lefevre of the Oswego schooner O.M. Bond, dated Sand Beach, October 19, as follows: "Bond ashore here and full of water." A special to this morning's Buffalo Express, dated Sand Beach at ...

      The Loss Of The Rooney ____ How the Cook Came to be Drowned - The Charlotte Life Crew Blamed - The Vessel to be Raised. _____ The Rochester papers contain a few particulars of the loss of the H. Rooney off Charlotte, yesterday morning, not given in our special ...

      A TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE Loss of Life on Lake Ontario -- Thirty one Persons, including Several Women and Children Drowned -- An Abandoned Tug Afloat off Oswego -- The Tug Seymour Looses Her Entire Tow in Sight of Oswego Light -- Adrift in a Howling Waste of Snow and Wind -- …

      THE GREAT DISASTER Further Particulars -- Eleven Lives Not Accounted For -- None Reported Saved Since Last Night -- The Pecuniary Loss $ 100,000 with No Insurance -- Statements of Survivors -- How the Lost Were Swept off and Drowned -- How the Survivors were Rescued -- A Story of …