BOAT UPSET AND Two MEN DROWNED On
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lGIhHrsday last tro r-----e ------I-4--v--7-- :
VIM. Merwin. keeper of the hospital in this place.
and the other Saml w. Plat, of Milford, started
in sail boat, ducking On Thursday noon
they went up the Housatonic River, landed and
took dinner with the sister of one of them, when
the brother left with her his watch for fear of
losing it, and left. intending to go down the
Sound-since which time nothing has been seen
or heard of them till Saturday evening, when the
boat was towed into Milford, having been picked
up about six miles below this .,harbor Young
Platt was found in the boat dead, lying on his
face. The boat was nearly filled with water,
the mast and sails gone. together with the guns,
a a., ,,'"'''~--' ~ and Merwin, the companion of
condition of things on uoara % @eeo1eo' -o--- in
which the boat was picked up. that she must
have capsized somewhere in the Sound while the
young mon ygHfng2ding, aud that one Of them
o3etachlng 3 the mast and righting the boat, but
died from fatigue. hunger or exposure, or from
these causes combined, as no marks of violence
were discovered upon his person, and notbino TO
indicate any other conclusion.