Elleda Wilson: Fatal fishing
May 5—Snippets from The Daily Morning Astorian, May 6, 1884, "From Our Notebook" section show just how deadly fishing with that lovely-looking butterfly fleet could be:
—Robert Hector was the only one saved of the four occupants of the boat that capsized abreast of Holladry's last Saturday. Mrs. Wynds, the wife of one of the drowned men, went down to the Seaside yesterday to search for her husband's body.
—Olaf Furre, captain of one of the Pacific Union Packing company's boats, was drowned last Sunday afternoon, off Scarborough head (the hill Fort Columbia in Chinook, Washington, sits on).
His boat puller went forward to fix the sail, and looking back saw Furre going overboard, all efforts to save him being unsuccessful. He was a native of Namson, Norway, and was 33 years of age.
—A dispatch from the Cape (Disappointment) at 8:30 last evening stated that two boats were swamped near the wreck of the Great Republic (which ran aground on Sand Island in the Columbia River in 1879) yesterday afternoon, and two men drowned.
One of the boats belonged to Cook (J.W. and V. Cook's cannery at Clifton), the names of the men were not telegraphed. To the efforts of Capt. Al Harris, of the life service, the rescued men owe their lives.
