Twelve Saved are as Steam Steamer Rams Tug in Fog

BALTIMORE, Md. Aug. 26 -- Five men were drowned and twelve saved from the waters of the Chesapeake bay twelve miles below Baltimore in a collision today between the United Fruit Company’s steamer BARNSTABLE, inbound and a tug towing an oyster dredge.

The steamer ran into the tug in a fog sinking it and causing the dredge to careen so that the crew were thrown into the water. The BARNSTABLE lowered boats immediately, and succeeded in rescuing twelve of the crews of the tug and the dredge.

Source: Washington Times, August 26, 1907, Front Page – Last Edition. [tug name not mentioned in article]