Abbreviations used
Date April 9 1884
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper The Daily Telegraph
The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.
Nova Scotians Lost at Sea - The following provincial fishing out of Gloucester, Mass. are reported drowned or missing: Sandy ZINC, Henry NEWMAN, John JACKSON and Andrew JACKSON, brothers, Harry ANDERSON, Arthur MARSHALL, James REYNOLDS, Henry HERRICK. They belonged to schr. "Magic". Two of the crew of schr. "Minnesota, one the back trip, were missing in their dories while attending their trawls on March 15 - Ed. MacKAY, Cape Breton, Roderick STEELE, P.E.I. Robert WEATHERBEE, another of the crew, was caught in the bight of the main sheet while the vessel was jibing and killed instantly. His body was buried at sea.