I am interested in finding any local information from Cape Vincent on the below listed article. Especially if any bodies were ever recovered. Russell Dear Rochester Union and Advertiser, November 6, 1873 The following Associated Press dispatch was received last night : Cape Vincent, N.Y. Nov. 5.------- Yesterday afternoon nine fishermen, whose names have not been ascertained, were drowned from a sail boat off Simcoe Island, in the St. Lawrence river. The men were engaged in collecting fish spawn---and they were probably on their way to Cape Vincent, the rendezvous when the disaster occurred. The sail boat was probably the "Island Queen" which laid in Irondequoit Bay all summer. My 2nd great-grand uncle, Wallace Deer (DEAR), who resided in Irondequoit was one of the missing fishermen. -------------------------------------------------- Since the above was written we have received the following dispatch from the telegraph operator at Cape Vincent : "Tuesday afternoon three of Seth Green's men named Wm. Closs, M.G. Holton and Wallace Deer, started with six or seven other fishermen in a sail boat from Pigeon Island, bound to Kingston. A high wind was blowing at the time and it is supposed that the boat being too heavily loaded, was swamped and all on board drowned. A can used by the men for gathering fish spawn and an overcoat, with pieces of the boat were picked up off Simcoe Island yesterday. Parties are out in search of the bodies. No further particulars have been received here yet.Deer is a middle aged man and leaves a wife and six children in destitute circumstances. ____________________________________________________________ Click and get free information on a satisfying career as a massage therapist. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/PnY6rw2ZT2SL9VYn8AdiwcEsbHMpZTlIQqHKOK0apLZGgtonZtkHz/