Slaves Drowned
 

Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, 3 March 1859, page 3

NEWPORT NEWS

SERIOUS LOSS-We have been informed by Mr. Robert McCracken, of our city, that a serious accident occurred to Mr. Seth Goshom. He was in the act of floating a flat boat down the river, loaded with slaves.

When just below Jamestown, on the opposite side of the river, it struck against the hull of a new streamer lying at the bank and broke in two, floating off the slaves and ruining the boat. Captain Mead, of the Newport Belle, made an attempt to save some of the slaves, but found them passing down stream so rapidly that it was impossible.

The loss of Mr. Gosham is about one thousand dollars.

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