The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1880-09-30
The Wreck of the Caroline Eddy
the STORY or cArrA1N MAhREN.

Captain George W. Warren of the lost brig Car |
ollne Eddy, has arrived in New York and gives the
following account:
Our brig owned by A. z Yesey & Co.. of |
Bangor, Maine She left Fernandina Florida on |
Friday August y, bound for Philadelphia with |
lumber. There seven souls on board-James |
L. Worgent, mate George W. Chapman, steward |
George F. Brown, Frederick Hansen, John Scott |
and August Olsen, members of the crew, and my |
self. On Saturday morning the weather was what
you might call nasty About noon we passed the |
era Cruz, carrying fore and aft sails and heading
south by east She looked in trim and shipshape |
and remember remarking to the mate; "If |
had that steamer wouldn't be afraid of going on
the Florida coast to-night" We lost sight of her
about T. NJ. We were on the port tack heading
southeast.
At midnight gave orders to shorten sail The
wind was not blowing so particularly heavy, but
1t was battling from to northeast and the sea
was running very high We we're then in latitude
29,2o with about twenty five fathomS OF water
under us, 1t wasn't very far from this point that
we were wrecked for big sea struck us at 3 \. NJ
and we had not been making more than three or
four knots an hour since midnight W had fured
all sal except the mainstaysal with bonnet Oft,
and all hands on deck She struck us right
IN the eye and never stopped until she reached the
other end of the brig 1t was sea like noun
tain. j stove in the bulkhead swept off the top
Of the forward house, broke the main boom and
main gait. ripped off the Sky from the after
"A>. PaSoVu p'Si Oui otciu tdhllS Dblu bodto
and the daylts together with the wheel | was
steering at the time, but dropped down and fell
70 leeward When picked myself up out Of the
lee scuppers | supposed was the only man aboard
the caroline EDDY but found all the rest of them
had managed somehow to get out of the way
/ how. don't know any more than | know how |
got oul OF the way myself. AS soon as the sea
cleared away we made for the pumps, but found
mat they We're all covered up with the wreck OF
lhe man boom ana part or the deck load set
part OF the to clearing the pElnpS. and laV-
lnS Aailec some canvass over the skyhght, took
the steward ana one OF me crew down TO the cabin
10 oalI water, Tor the CABIN was Hooded Suddenly
we notceu tAat the brig was listing 10 HfaTboaTd,
and az the same TIME we heard the mate sing out
- US 70 come on DECK Tor sAe was solng over.
we "ereh very SLOW III getting to the EangWaV,
o"t ~hen we got there we found that the mate had
h@Ieu the boards over the Gang"ay So hight and
- close together that We couldn get out tell
{ou j made us sweat Tor we could feel the brig
listing all the hme we had to burst the boards
up through ana We dd W hen We got on deck
sac vas gong over. jumped ana let 90 the
maln-staysall halllardS ana oy the llme got back
y tne mann rigging she was nearly nal on htf
s'arooafd SIDE, her mast heads beng about htteen
feet from the water Getting chance to look
around me found nat all NE ere" were close by.
mdu7 lhS "a az pcst lhey c"aIu 20 tle man rlsSlu5
We Knew lle olu pllg Wouluu 20 down win her
DeHy nun OF + tlorlda timber, out we couldn't tell
no" soon wed be washed on
presently she began to night herself having
"HnS i""ul 'Hi Eng ~ tuc "Inu iuu sca uAdcl
heF masts As aAe slrshlehed up the mate craW ted
up over the mast head cut away the man topmast
Whlcn was hanging, ana came down on The star
board rigging When she was fairly ughted she
sunk nearly TO the 4eVeI OF the upper deck, There
was good chance now Of her gong over on the
port side, so we all shifted and crawled over INTO
the opposite rggIug, Il task which was not easy,
considering that The sea was making clear breaches
over us. Just as We got into the rigging An euor
nous sea swept oycr her, clearing the decks of
remained r II ANAtI