The Tragedy of a Midnight Gale

It was mentioned that a man by the name of M. Moore, who left here on the Thursday evening previous in a small boat for Port Blakely, had not since been heard from. It was unquestionable that the boat had been capsized during the brave gale of that night, and that he was drowned, and that she would likely be picked up on Vashon Island. Yesterday, the Success brought intelligence that the boat had been picked up on the beach at Vashon Island, bottom side up, where it had drifted by the tide. The thwart on which the man had sat was broken in two, indicating that the boat, while sailing, had been struck by a sudden gale, dismantled, and capsized. The body of the unfortunate young man was found clinging to the boat with a death grip, and entangled in the sail and rigging. The place where the boat was picked up was many miles distant from what must have been its course at the time of the disaster. The oars and all the articles on board, excepting those attached to the boat by rigging—such as the rudder, mast, and sail—were missing when she was picked up, and were probably washed out when she was capsized.