Public Ledger, October 13, 1892

Schooner Capsized in a Gale.

Transportation -- Water - WrecksWatermen -- Personal injuryLaborers -- Fisheries

Tasley, Va., October 12. -- Last week Captain John Marsh of Hoffman's Wharf, in the lower part of Accomac county, left home in his schooner, having on board two other young men -- one named Madcap, the other Baker -- intending to go to Baltimore to get a crew of dredgers. As nothing was heard from them Captain Charles Marsh went in search of his brother, and has telegraphed here that the schooner was capsized in a gale off Barn Island, in the Chesapeake Bay, and that the three men have probably been lost. Marsh and Madcap are from Accomac, but Baker came here recently from Berkley, Va.