Five Men Lost in the Surf Near Ocosta
A fourteen-mile beach patrol finds no trace of Lieut. Crosby or four others believed drowned off the Washington coast.
TACOMA, Aug. 21.—A special to the Ledger from Ocosta says that the balance of the crew of the United States coast survey steamer McArthur have been patrolling the ocean beach for fourteen miles since yesterday, but no trace of the bodies of Lieut. Crosby or any of the four men supposed to have been drowned in the surf Friday night can be found. The McArthur is now at Ocosta dock.
“No trace of the bodies of Lieut. Crosby or any of the four men supposed to have been drowned in the surf Friday night can be found.”
Washington's coast has never stopped being dangerous for people who work on the water. The 1894 search for the McArthur's lost men echoes every later Coast Guard rescue and every family left waiting on shore.
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