Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-09-20
HAVOC ON THE COAST.
The Terrible Experience Of Sailor Of
the Orient in the Mad Waters
OF the Gulf.
The Captain and All but One OF the
Crew OF the Inflated Vessel
Find Watery Graves.
The Lone survivor Tells the riteous Taic--
Galveston Inundated The Rains
AT Last Abatinp.
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GALVESTON, TEX, Sept, l9.--All last
night the government lite-sAvlng crew
patrolled the beach, assisted ya volunteer
corps, in search OF any possible survly.
ors from the wrecked barge Orient.
This morning the patrolmen came In
and reported no survivors aud no bodies
could be found This seemed to verify
the belief that the entire crew OF the ORR
ent had certainly persisted.
About noon to-day 4 fisherman came to
town and reported that man had been
taken from the gulf alive last night, in
the height of the storm, and was being
cared for by a neighboring farmer. re-
porter visited tho lone survivor, and
found him ut house live miles
down the island. He proved TO be
kDctrick Schnell, the man who jumped from
the Orient into the yawl-boat that went
10 the rescue, in face Of the heavy sea
aud angry storm, which prevailed all
night. SChnell's rescue Is almost mir
acle. His pathetic story was told with
/ difficulty, he being SO weak he could
/ scarcely speak
| The crew of the Orient, said Schnell,
consisted of Capt. Griswold, an old man
/ namcd George, boy named Jimmie, a
! sailor named Bell and Sohucll, making
! five. When the barge began 20 20 TO
pieces they lowered a small iron yawl
over the stern, put the ships papers
1 In a vallse, and old George jumped
into the yawl, Just then the wreck
swung around and swnmpcd the yawl.
George was hauled on board with DIM
Guilty BY this time the old b;rge was
fast settling aud all hands ran forward,
Nothing, said Schnell, could stand the
force of the terrible sea; every wave
washed over the wreck aud we chung TO
the rigging for dear life
When they saw the yawl boat put out
from the barge, they Thought they were
all saved and Capt. Griswold kept en-
conaging his men TO hold on and he
brave. When the yawl got under oui
bow and the crew sang out 20 MS tc
Jump, | heard them and Immediately
jumped, said Schnoll, but as soon as
got In the yawl cnpsized.
His account Of how he drifted about fol
\ ten hours within sight OF land how th,
waves washed him almost ashore, thcr
carried him back five miles or more, was
as thrilling tale of human suffering and
endurance as could be imagined liz
driited fully twenty miles with singl,
HE preserser, in Il raging sea that an or
binary swimmer could not buffet Nv,
minutes,
Schnell has no hopes whatever of even
seeing Capt. Grlswold or any of his men
They could not hold on many hours aitci
be left them, and MS n0tEing but the fore
mast could be seen OF the wreck To-day
il Is certain that Capt. Griswold and hi,
crew are drowned.
To-day the remarkable rain-storr
which has prevailed for nearly week
showed signs of abating, and tonight
the downpour has, for the time
being, ceased The rainfall during
the past twcniy-iomr hours, ending
at O'Clock, was 20.l0O inches, Thu
city r. inuudnted.
No reports of the extent of the danag,
by storm have yet come IN from the const
ports below Galveston.