WILLIAM OWEN. TY'N LON, MYNYDD NEFYN.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.
On Sunday last, three young sailors, named Humphrey Jones, aged 22, William Owen, aged 18, and Owen Jones, aged 15, the two former from Nevin, and the latter of Bangor, started from Port Dinorwic in a skiff for a sail on the Menai Straits. They had not been on the water 15 minutes, when the sail became entangled with the ropes, and William Owen proceeded to climb to the mast head with the intention of setting it right, and in the attempt his legs lost their hold.Humphrey Jones seeing his perilous situation, ran to the side of the boat, for the purpose of rescuing him, and their joint weight overbalancing the vessel, she capzised, the two eldest, (one of them having shipped for the first time, only a few days before), were unfortunately drowned.
The youngest although he was seized by William Owen, managed to free himself from the grasp, and rising to the surface clung to the boat until assistance was rendered. It is a singular circumstance, that this is the fourth time the last mentioned youth has nearly met his death. The first time he narrowly escaped, was near Puffin Island, where he was in a boat with another man. The boat capzised, but he was picked up, while his companion was drowned. The second time, he fell overboard into the Thames, and the third, into one of the docks at Liverpool.
An inquest was held at Port Dinorwic on the bodies of the deceased (who were grappled for and found, soon after the accident), before E. G. Powell, Esq., Coroner, when the jury having fully investigated the circumstances, rfeturned a verdict of "Accidental Death."