The Ghostly Search for a Lost Sailor

It will be remembered that on the fourteenth instant, by the capsizing of a boat near the mouth of the Columbia River, a sailor named Reaul, while putting out the lanterns on the bows of the bark, fell overboard and was drowned. The shipmates of the drowned man, who lived in South St. Louis, had mourned much over the loss of their boatman. The body had been diligently searched for for some time since the man was drowned, and those who have been untiring in their labors were finally rewarded by the finding of the remains. It appears that those searching for the body had been told to take one of the deceased's old shirts, place it in the river where the man was drowned, and that where the garment had floated down to where the body was lying, it would sink. However, they had not placed much faith in the suggestion. But, nevertheless, the men thought it would do no harm to try it. The garment was put in the river, and when it had floated down some little distance, the shirt sank directly at the foot of E-wood Street. A cannon was then shot off, and almost immediately afterward the body of the drowned man was seen floating on the surface of the water. The story may seem incredible, but it was reported by several eyewitnesses of the affair.