The Ouachita Telegraph - Two Men and Woman Drown Near Delta

Date: Jul 2000
Submitted by: Lora Peppers <lpeppers@ouachita.lib.la.us>

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The Ouachita Telegraph
Friday, January 29, 1875
Page 2, Column 6

        The Vicksburg Herald of Tuesday says that on Saturday night four
negroes started from Delta to the old Brown & Johnston place, in a skiff,
with a quantity of provisions.  When a short distance from the shore, the
skiff was discovered to be filling rapidly with water.  The negroes, in
endeavoring to make their escape capsized the skiff, drowning William Morton,
Joe Kline and a negro girl named Philis.  The other member of the party,
a negro boy, succeeded in swimming ashore.  The bodies of the persons drowned
had not been recovered at last accounts.

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