The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-03-09
Narrowing SuGcriaGs by Il siIipWrcch-
cd Grcw--A Collision OF Cape May
Fcrishing from Hunger and Coid--
Rescue by the Steamship AIbeKnarle.

The recent heavy gales will doubtless cause
many serious disasters along the coast, and
the public may be prepared for tales of sut-
ftring, owing to the piercing cold which pre-
walls. 1t is some consolation, however, to
think that the ocean is still trNycrscd by some
noble seamen, who, when chance or proyl-
Dental intervention throws 4 rescue ill their
way, no risk, or pain, or hardship, will deter
them from at least attempting to save their
suffering brethren whom iIl-uck or accident
may have left TO perish in the storm. Il case
in point is furnished by the sad catastrophe
which bclcll the schooner Harry Conrad. The
Suterngs of her shipwrcckcd crew are de-
scribcd as narrowing In the extreme, and had
it not been for the
HUMANE, PROMPT, AND MANLY ACTION
of Captain G. NJ. Walker, commander of the
steamship Albcmarlc, Of the Old Dominion
line, they must have been lost. The Abe
marie left Norfolk on Monday at 4 2. NJ.
-Four hours later it commenced to blow gale
from the northwest, and continued in vio-
lcuce until the following evening. About
=. VI. on Tuesday Captain Walker, when OF
Cape May, sighted three-nnsted schooner,
sunk, hearing north by west. Without hest
tation the captain at once rsln down towards
the schooner, and, to his surprise, found q
small boat made fast to one OF the maSts con-
timing six men and one woman, all Of whom
We're stark and Stitl, while the little boat itself
was constantly shipping water and tossing
about ut the mercy OF the waves. NotI the
course Of his long and varied experience has
Captain Walker belic'd such 4 heart-rendin9
spectacle. The occupants Of the boat, who
were almost doubled UP, were rapidly sink
ing into
STATE OF USCoSsCloUsSEss,
and it was evident that if not already gone
10 their last home their hours were number
ed. AS the AlLemarle drew nearer it was
perceived that every person in the boat had
4 coating Of ice on over half foot thick
and already benumbcd and frost-bitten, they
were for a time deaf to i'll heterogeneous
At length Captain Walker came up quite
close to the suIikcn schooner, and, with STEM
torian voice, hailed them TO cut adriit. AS il
aroused from deep slumber, and many OF
them were already doing prior to dlssolu.
ton, CLEAN of hope frightened fora moment
the prospects Of the dying crew, and stimuli.
tancous effort was ln!oe TO obey the kind
command. Buttheir powers were gone, andln
the effort to relieve themselves they fell back
in tile boat i'll q sense!css condition. One
man, however. who sat i'll the bow, reused
To Il last desperate attempt to save his life.
seized an axe with his frostbitten hands, and
by one vigorous stroke cut the rope that so
long had unclaimed them to death. Thus
freed, the little boat, with its perishing occll-
pants, dropped alongside the Albenlarle, and
they were taken through the port on the lee
side. They presented most
HELPLESS AND FoRLoRN SPECTACLE,
and it was thought that very few of them
would survive the terrible ordeal through
which they had passed. But the usual
remedies, including stimulants and the rub.
bling of ice on the hands and feet of the SUI
ferers, were quickly applied, and with the
great and unremitting attention bestowed
upon them by Captain Walker and the Pur-
ser of the Albemarle, the poor patients
gradually returned to consciousness. And
then came the story OF the wreck. The YES
sci lying i'll seven and half fathon,s OF
water was tie three-masted schooner Harry
Conrad, Captain Parker, bound from Balti-
more to New York, laden with coal. AT S
o'clock on Monday evening. when In the
midst Of the storm, she was run into by an