New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-01-22
NARROWING CENES.
Captain and Crew all Drowned.
STrfERINGS OF THE WRECKERS.

Few Of those who sat snugy By the house fir sde
las, Sunday and watched the gathering storm, bur
,harked the fates that they were not exposed TO us
fury How few 10 sever, reslzed that within short
l1ty niles 4 their doors right by the gate Of the sea,
many Of their ftow-creaturss brsvey struggling
| , the fierce elements for dear life. Next morn
-, lo,e, -. the storm had subsidized, the sad news
came ont through IA: newspapers that an unknown
| vessel brig had STRANDED on the point of jersey
Roach near sandy Hook, snd IN spite o: 81 tia, the
w,ecker. could do il was feared that the crew had
every one perished Then the electro telegraph from
Sand, Hook broke down, and sH day Monday the
weathe- was too thrk to aGnit of usirg the signal
| telegraph from the Highlands, the Bay ard Narows
were mpsssably frozen up, ard sl the raj and other
macs were buried under snow banks ever many feet
sowD SO thse reporters cod cot get to the coast Sci
every body had to wait cad suspense sntL 10 the
course of events further information could be obtained
on Tuesday piUtbost managed 10 work up from the
Lover BAY, and reported that she had seen me brig
Co zen Lead inside of,he Hook It snchor, on sunday
morning early Everybody concluded that the Gsiden
Lead -es .he unfcruzate craft which hsd been dashed
TO pieces on the beach. Late az night, however, W.
received Geographic uoee from Sandy Hook, stating
that the name of the LOSE brig the Emellne, and
yesterday the Golden Lead safely reached the city,
with the lC,s OF some of her spers and rigging.
The particulars of the Ioss OF the EmeiDe we have
procured from gentleman who arrived srcn the
Beach last evening being TIE first person tOrn that
quarter since Saturday last
About O'Clock on Sunday morning, while Capt
Haegeity, the host of the Ocean House, was TIe'y
slipping bis coffee, and wondering when that n. n +
storm was going 70 cease, he looked out seward and
espied tire upper part Of brig heading for the beach
As yet her hull was hidden from Eght, bat he could
see that she was crippled in her spars, and. as he
thought, in pretty ,ad plight. Soon her hull doomed
up and he could that it was evidently the nten-
ton Of her captain to her ashore because with the
wind which was then blowing she might have been
kept off without difficulty So he came to the cOncu
sion that che was disabled in her rigging and eaky,
and the pumps being probably frozen, and the men
worn out with toll and exposure, her captain had de-
termned to resort to the last chance for saving the
lives of himsef and his On she came, stagger'
ing and slow, as if unwilling to lay her bones on the
beach like an old hulk after the brave services which
she bad performed. On she came nearer and nearer;
the stout Catta left his comfortable abode aud ran
down toward the beach, while the women folk crowded
to the door in breathless suspense to watch the inn
pending catastrophe. On she came nearer yet, TIL
the faces of ~ crew could be seen pale aud CHASTITY,
from the shore. The white breakers leap and roar
eagerly to the fatal embrace; as her Prov parts the
milky foam every man cried :" God help US! and
held firmly 10 the frozen rigging. Another moment
and she has struck the beach, ard the is dsshng
wildly over her decks.
Three miles OF, these events had been observed by
Edward Wardle, the Underwriters agent and keeper
Of the iesaviDg apparatus, Who leaving orders for
his trusty crew to follow with surfboats, hfecars,
cables and mortar jumped into bis wagon and dashed
of to the wreck. Twenty minutes after she struck he
was on the beach near her. She lay head on shore,
some seventy eighty yards from the beach, the sea
breaking over her stsrbcard side. There were only
six men to be seen on board. Whether any others
were lying in their hunks below, frost bitten, aod una
bic to crawl up may never be known. The main
sa was half get and the sailors getting under the lee
Of i, were for while somewhat sheltered from TIE
storm. Capt Hsggerty thought that if they had
launched their boat over the lee rsi as soon ~ the
brig struck, they might have got safely ashore but
they seemed physically incapable OF e1erhon. Prob
ably they froetbitten, or had not strength
enough left to launch the boat, and very soon il was
too late for as our informant graphically described it,
" the storm came heavy enough to blow the oars
out Of their rowlocks." To launch boat from the
beach in such gale was impossible, and as sOOn as
the mortar arrived, Mr.. Wardle shot line over the
brigs rigging The poor fellows cheered feeble
cheer bnt il was almost dismal enough for
a oroau and one of them tried to Chamber up the icy
rathpes 10 catch ii. lie was evidently too much be-
nuubed, and the attempt abandoned. Another
and another line thrown over her by Mr.. Wadlei
but they were far gone to help themselves. Five
ues were fred at various elevations across the brig
but lot OF shem was Of any use to the doomed
men, II was q terrible storm, the wind driving the
sea in huge over the vessel, and halng torrents
Of sharp sand and pebbles into the faces and eyes Of
the rreckers 90 shore. Soon the mainsal gave way,
and the sea swept the deck. Some OF the men took
10 the rigging; others vert down INTO the cabin, ana
one crept upon bis belly out upon the boWspnt Too
feeble to help themselves, they looked for aid to the
men on shore and occasionally rased a feeble shout
but they had done al that was possible for
their assistance. II the on tho bng
had only been able 70 haul the haSsers out the
life car could have been sent off to them, and they
might have bean saved. How painfully the wreckers
watched their motons-how implorngy the poor fel-
lows looked toward the shore Presently those IN the
cabin crawed deck again, and another man tned 10
reach the friendly rope. He too failed. As the tide
rose the vreckers drew back their surbosts and the
men on the brig, thinking they were about 70 de'er
them, get up a Wild wall that was beard high above
the crash Of the storm. DR.. Wsrdle made signs that
be- mtend,d 10 stay by them, and he assurance seemed
10 Oh eer them little In rle while the man 90 the
bowp PIT moved down 70 the deck and throwing over
the top Of the galley something Ike It, eaPed mo
the ,es after t. After bufetng the waves for AVN
| he gained the raA but It was heid fact Oya hne'
| which be bad lot seen 70 the verse; foI n'teeH
x,p,s. he clun, 10 the do., and the men on shore
could il tursSyer and over IN the ooNinS Nas'
Occasionally. only the feet Of the mar were vsibe
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