The Kiowa started to shake violently ... then stepped off an underwater embankment and started sinking into 3 feet of mud. Weighed down by his body armor, he said, he thought he would drown.

As the soft earth gave way, he found himself sinking rapidly into the thick mud. Despite his efforts to turn back, he was unable to free himself from the mud’s tight grip. Adding to the ...

After one of the mildest Christmas days in many years, a wild Winter storm broke over New England to-day, and in addition to the sinking of the Kiowa and the dredge Gen. Poe, several other marine ...