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From "The Daily Columnist", St. John's, November 18, 1890: ANOTHER LOSS AT SEA The "Bell Haddon" and Crew Lost The boat found floating bottom up near Twillingate on Saturday evening last, turns out to be the "Bell Haddon" belonging to Solomon MUTCH Esq., of Ragged Harbour, Notre Dame Bay. Mr. E.A. MUTCH, manager of the Furniture Show Rooms on Duckworth Street, was wired particulars of the affair last night, information of which he gave the "Colonist" this forenoon. The "Bell Haddon" left Fogo on Saturday week the 7th inst., bound to Tilt Cove with a load of produce. There were three persons on board, viz., Simon BEMISTER, Joseph WELLON and Percy R. MUTCH, son of the owner who was going down to Tilt Cove just for a trip. It is thought that the boat reached Little Beaver Cove on Saturday evening which place she did not leave again till Monday, owing to head winds. During the same night it must have been that she was caught in a squall and turned over, somewhere in the neighbourhood of Western Head. Nothing was known of the disaster until two days after, which was Wednesday, when a quantity of wreckage, including vegetables and a piece of punt was picked up at Black Island. A short time after the boat itself was discovered bottom up, near Crow Head. She was badly damaged, with keel, deck and bulwarks gone. No trace of the bodies of these on board was seen, nor has there been since. Of the three on board Simon BEMISTER and Joseph WELLON were both married men with families; the former belonging to Ragged Harbour, the latter to Ladle Cove. Both were comparatively young men under forty years of age. Percy R. MUTCH was the youngest son of the family, and was only twenty years old. He had spent some time studying medicine in McGill College, and was going back again to that institution within a month. [End.] And further from "The Gander Beacon", Nov. 27, 1991, an excerpt from an article on the "Belle Haddon", written by R.W. Abbott, Musgrave Harbour: One of the men was Joseph Bessett WELLON, Ladle Covem age 34 years, married to Dorcas GOODYEAR of Lumsden. They had two daughters, Carrie age three years and Melinda age two months. She was my wife's mother and Joseph was her grandfather. I have often heard my mother-in-law, who married Henry Bishop STRATTON, tell of her father being drowned in Mutch's schooner somewhere near Western Head. The other men were Simeon BEMISTER of Ragged Harbour and Percy MUTCH, age 21, Mr. Solomon [Mutch]'s youngest son, a medical student at McGill College who went on the trip for a holiday before going back in the next month. |
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