The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-02-21 00:00:00

death. The Waled) got everything warm and nom-
fortable, the landlord fetched down the whole don of
his clothing, and shared it among these strangers, be
pulled off their wet clothes, and dressed them la his
own, and soon they were brought round to be able to
than their kind-hearted entertainers ; but how
could five men just rescued from drowning, and
who had lost their all, recompense them for what
they bad done? Mr. and Mrs. Quinton kriPt
them there Friday night; but on Seturday they
wanted to net home, so the landlord drove in
his cart as far as be Dodd, and got them to the flawed
railway station, whence they left for Hull, with many
blessing's on those who had thus revived them. Arrived
at Hull. they went to the office of that =able institu-
tion, the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners'
Society, which sends home all destitute castaway
seamen, and here they received help to go to 14'nd°11'
But, it was not everyone that treated our shipwrecked
✓otors as Hr. and Mn. Qeinton and the Mariners'
Society did, for at one railway station they found a
queer specimen of a station-muter, The storm had
*ant many fine vessels to their doom, and more than
one crew were seeking to get home after losing their
ships. At a station which shall be nameless, but the
bes 4 officiial of which deserves that his name should be
published, there were 16 shipwrecked nun in this
plidit. Sonic of them were wet; some, like oar
Weymouth wen, thinly clad, having had, five of them,
to .iraw on oils man's stock ; others were almost naked,
considering the weather they had to endure. When
they got out of the train a railway porter, touched by
their condition, asked them into the waiting-room to
warm tbemselve.. Glad enough, they crowded round
the fire, when in tune the station-master, and roughly
shouting that "they must not go in there dialog the
room," he turned them out into the cold. Should that
stetion-master ever find himself in a sinking schooner
outside the Spurn. he'll very likely cry "Now would
fain give • thousiind furlongs of sea for an acre of
barren ground ; long heath, brown terse, scything."
And if be were to menu, he would probably think
even • second-class waitiurproom fire not too good to
save the perishing from cold. However, our sailors
arrived home on Monday, thinking • good deal more of
the kindness of Mr. and Mrs. Quintou than of the
surliness of the railway official.
The official remount of this unfortunate affair is u
follows :—On the 15th instant, Richard Moore, late
master of the schooner Sarah, of Weymouth, deposed
before James Grieve, Esq., receiver of wreck, and
Edmund Drummond, Esq., nautical assistant, that the
vessel, which was owned by Mr. Henry Fudge, of this
town, was on a voyage from Hartlepool to Weymouth,
and proceeded on the 9113, the wind at the time blow-
ing . strong broese, all going well, until the 10th, at
10.30 a.m., the weather thick, with rain, wind in the
SE., blowing agate, the said ship being close to the
Outer Bank buoy, near Spurn Point, under close reefed
mainsail; attempted to ort, foresail, jib, and topsail, to
keep vessel off the land, but they blew away, took
weediest and found 2i fathoms, vessel drifted towards
shore, and at about noon struck the Stoney bank, the
sea making • clean breach over her. Sounded pumps,
and found between fire and six feet of water, launched
boat, and for safety of life abandoned vessel ; reached
the shore at 1 p.m. Al 3 p.m. the vessel beanie •
total wreck, and broke up. There were four anchors
on board, two being over the bow, 4i 'wt. each, ready
for letting go, with 110 fathoms one-inch bar cable
attached to use, and 90 fathoms one-inch bar cable to
the other. Did not let go the anchors to bring the
vessel up, being fearful that the docks would be swept
by the sea, and the boat lost. Ail hands wore on deck
at time of casualty, and the master had charge. At
3 a.m, of the morning of casualty the wiud suddenly
diifte4 from N. W. moderate to S.S.E., and then S.E.,
a gale. The lo,s of chip is estimated by deponent at
shout C5OO, the cargo about ISO. No lives lost, five
in all being saved by ship's boat. He is of opinion
the casualty could not have been avoided, it baying
been occasioned solely by ureaa of weather.