Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-11-11
TxsRigI. STORY or a Week.


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YORK Herald says: The storm OF Wecncs
dav Inst wns more severe along the aoHn.
err coast Of New Brunswick than was ~
firsi realised, end news OF the saddess ea-
snsl,v vet reported reached Chatham, on
Saturday forenoon, followed by the arrival
that evening OF the survivors oil the crew
a. The barkentine vigiiant. OF and ron
p.thurst. laden with laths for Boston, ana
now 4 total wreck Of Tabasintac, on the
north side Of Miramiehi bay.
THE CAPTAINS STORY.
rrom an interview with Captain u. ID.
chase. I ,earn the following particnlars
The VIc,,ant left Bathurst on Monday at
teynoon the I'd instant, and having round
cd Miecop Island was on her course down
the straits of Northumberland, when .
br;sl Wind from the southeast met the YES
sel ten miles northeast Of Escumibae light
nv 10 O'Clock II was blowing gale. which
continued. accompanied with snow. The
yessel was nut under close reefs, but by
morning. finding sea and wind so heavy az
10 prevent any progress being made To wind
ward, Captain Chase decided 10 run IN over
M,ramicbi bar II possible in the storm.
Breakers were sighted and a hghthouse
beyond, when both anchors were let go.
They held for an hour. the vessel going,
head under quite often, until The ha'4say
snapped. and finally the aaeuors dragged.
When the stern struck bottom botb
chains were slipped so a. TO let the vessel
90 aa, Snere as quickly as possible. The
I place she struck was the bar on Taeusfnatc
| Gully, and, IL being low tide, there was
| only some three feet OF water on II. Two
or three seas swept over the vessel, and
the mizzenmast. the third or fourth
sea sweeping the deck load and ear.
ryinQ of nearly all ON board. All
| but William Robinson, OF Barbados, The
eolored cook, regained the vessel. This
| was abunt noon. In four hours the rising
| tide and sea had sent the wreck up along
| the bar nearer the beach, and the Foremost
| bad gone out and was alongside. AS the
sea covered the hnlk the men were Obliged
| 10 climb 10 the chain-plates on the weather
side until one tremendous wave threw the
vessel bottom up. All hand. then succeed
ed in climbing TO the forward house,
through which the foremost ran, and AZ
this was held BY the wreckage on the lee
ward side OF the vessel, they managed to
keep above water at times by its aid.
FATAL MOVE.
II would not sustain them all. however,
for the night. 90 Captain Chase. as dark
ness came down upon them, made for de-
tacbed portion OF the deck near by, warn
ing the men 10 remain where they were
until he bad tested whether il would he a
better place for them. On the way he be-
came entangled IN the wreckagc, and being
nearly exhausted, cried out that he was
afraid he was gone, when his son, Charles
ID. Chase, promising lad OF seven
teen, left the forward house and made
for him, only. however, to sink at
once in the dark and angry sea.
Finally Captain Chase eXtricated him
self and reached the fragment OF deck. to
which he assisted the mate and a POrtu-
guese sailor, three others remaining on
the forward house through the long night.
The six men renamed in this situation,
the wind having gone down and a sharp
frost following. About sunrise one OF the
men. Daniel MeKeDdy, OF DouglaStOwn.
who had taken passage from Bathurst to
Boston as an extra hand, died from eX-
hauston, and the corpse was lashed to the
foremost head.
THE RESCUE.
As soon as it was daylight the pcri>hins
men could see two or three persons on the
shore near the lighthouse, only few hun
dred yards away, plling mp the Hath saved
from the cargo, but making no signs OF
coming 10 their rescue. Fortunately, how
ever. Messrs. David Hutchson, or Douglas
town. and W. A. Logic. Of Chatham. were
on the beach at the latter's lobster packing
establishment, where they had been shoot
ing geese and brant. They had lost one
canoe as the tide Of that night was the high
est for six years. Procuring several
hundred fathoms Of line they proceeded ont
and Hutchison made an attempt TO reach
the wreck. paying out line rs h. went.
His craft was but an ordinary
dug-ouf, or log canoe. and the
wind and tide carried him past the wreck.
Loggic. 10y means OF the line from the shore,
assisted liutchison TO get back, and then
HutchisOn remained on the beach, while
LOggie. from point further to windward,
succeeded in reaching the poor fellows, one
OF whom at least was near his end. The six
men were brought TO the shore. aided now
DO the wIeckers. All were conveyed To
the lighthouse, where they were made rs
comfortable as possible by the keeper, who
is an old man and not able to render as
sisiance TO any one in such cases.
The men who were wrecking demanded
pay before the captain left for Chatham for
pulling on the rope by which the perishing
men were brought to the shore.
THE SAVED.
The saved are Captain Chase. Michael
Daley, Of Bathurst, first mate: Robert
Fleming. OF Bathurst, second mate; Ken
meth Mcclellan. OF Chltham, and a Portu-
gueSe sailor, who is left at house on the
coast because Of his precarious condition.
The vessel was insured for S9.000-S2,5OO
each in the Boston. Marine and PhGniX,
Of Brooklyn. and $1,000 each in the Great
Western and Western. The cargo con-
sisted Of $4,000 laths on ships account,
aud, with the freight. was uninsured. Tie
captain and the other survivors were forty
eight hours without food, and considering
the severe weather it is awonder they were
saved.
Two schOoners from Prince Edward
Island are reported ashore within mile OF
Tabusinisac Gully and bark at Miscou.