The Tragedy of Sherer’s Point

Lopez, Feb. 14.—A sad accident, resulting in the loss of the lives of three promising young men, occurred on the north side of Lopez on Wednesday, February 10. Eugene Blowes, better known as 'Doc,' who has been farming on a government reservation known as Sherer’s Point, went to Richardson, the nearest trading point, to buy groceries and feed for his stock. He purchased four bales of hay and some house stores and asked John Davis, the son of a neighboring farmer, and Wright Davis, whose father is a carpenter living near Lopez, to go home with him. They agreed, and all started out from Richardson in a skiff. 'Doc,' who was a stalwart young fellow, pulled the oars and the other two sat upon the hay, which was put—two bales each—in the forward and stern ends of the boat. The next seen of the party was from Charles Bartlett’s bay, about half a mile from Sherer’s Point. This was at 2 o’clock, the party having left the store at noon. They were then apparently all right, but at 3 p.m. the boat was found upturned and the hay and groceries drifted ashore about 300 yards from the house in which Blowes resided. No trace of the occupants was to be found. The neighborhood was aroused and search parties at once organized and sent out. Dr. Gloggett, the county coroner, formerly a British naval officer, was promptly on hand. Through his energetic assistance everything possible was done to recover the bodies, but without avail. As the tide was running out at the time, it is probable they were carried to sea.