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...work of the crew suffered accordingly. After shooting the Longwood bridge into the basin the seas began to wash into the boat, and at a point about midway between the Harvard Bridge and the Union Boat Club the barge filled with water and the crew were obliged to swim to the launch. The men were taken immediately to the Union house and driven out to Cambridge from there in carriages. The launch then returned to the submerged barge and towed it back to the boathouse...
...Yale barge was upset yesterday for the second time this season, and the crew had to swim ashore, pulling the barge after them...
...there. In trying to push off, the wherry was upset, and Ryder being unable to extricate his feet from the straps, was dragged under the boat. He at length managed to free himself and reach the surface, but not until he had almost lost consciousness, and was unable to swim ashore...
...smoothness with which everything passed along, on account of the large number of things to do, it was about 8 o'clock before the crew pushed off for the first time in a new cedar shell built by Wm. Davy of Cambridge. With a promise of a short swim upon coming in the men gripped the water in a manner which in many respects has not been equalled this year. The row was short. A good dinner awaited, and in due time disappeared...
...only be surmised. Shaw went down to the boat house with the rest of the crew Monday afternoon, and as the barge was full Captain Perkins decided to let him go out in a single, first making sure that he could manage it, and that he knew how to swim. The crew rowed down to the basin, and Shaw, after rowing about for some time in front of the boat house, followed them. It was just below the Western Avenue bridge that the accident happened. Whether the shell struck on a sunken pile and capsized, dragging Shaw under...