CAIRO, May 6. – A skiff containing a Mrs. Depostor and her two sons together with some groceries &c, which they had just purchased, while putting out towards the Kentucky shore this p. m., was capsized in the current and driven against the bow of the steamer Red Rover at the Naval Depot causing it to swamp. The two men were fished out but the woman was drowned. She had just returned from Chicago where She had been to visit a son who is a prisoner at Camp Douglas, taken at Ft. Donelson. The reside opposite Island No. 1 some six miles below, and were all good Union citizens except the youngest son who was persuaded to join the rebel army and is now a prisoner.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p. 4
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