NEW-LONDON, Conn., Feb. 6.--The towboat Aries arrived here this afternoon. She left New-York Monday night, with five barges, bound for Providence and New-Bedford with coal.
    When seven miles west of Saybrook Light at 5:30 this morning, a sea struck the tow, and the barge Van Santvoord parted her hawser and went down. The sea washed the deckhouse and hatch covers off. Capt. Wynkoop of the barge going adrift on one and his brother, the cook, on the other.
    A second brother was washed overboard and drowned.
    The Captain and cook were picked up, but the former died twenty minutes afterward. The cook is badly frozen and his hands and ears are in a terrible condition. Capt. Wynkoop lived in Providence.

Source:

Unknown, "Barge Van Santvoord Lost, Three Men Washed Overboard, of Whom but One is Alive," The New York Times, New York, Thursday, 7 February 1895, p. 5.