New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-01-13
WRECKED orr NANTUCKET.
SEVEN PERSONS PERISH IN THE STORM.
FUTILE EFFORTS TO SAVE THE CREW OF THE ,. b.
WiTiIEUSrOON.

FUTILE EFFORTS TO SAVE THE CREW OF THE j. b.
wiTHEESrOON.
BoSTON Jan. u SpccidD.-AnOtheT disaster
is reported from Nantucket About 'ysht on Monday
PatrOlmln Freeman, Of the United states Lfcsaving
Station, largo three mastcd schooner stranded on
his beat. Boats and apparatus immediately sent
the of disaster. Tho running TOO high
to launch n boat and tha schooner seemed logged Her
own boat gone and the had taken to the rigg
ing The howitzer was loaded and ball and the line
shot successfully over the vessel The line srdspcd
by two OF the crew, who tried TO pull II aboard with
hawscr, with running block and breccAcs seal attached
Before reached the the line parted and the haW
ser was hauled ashore When the line parted Of the
crew who had hold OF 1t was drawn overheard and
drowned.
second line was shot over vossel bat it parted
before. A life raft manned by JOsoph NJ FOger BeuJd-
min Beekman. Charles Small, Charles H. Cash, John T.
Iaber Horace Orpon Benjamin VI. Fisher ahd Everltt
Coffin was then launched, bat the raging sea flung 1t
back like feather Beakman being swept from by one
sea and swept back by another His comrades cntehed
him aud saved him from instant death. \ third bail
was shot the vessel and again the line broke ana
the efforts Of The the crew seemed ah0ruve
Two Uf the In rigging seen To give up ana
fan overheard One OF them proved be the master.
His body came ashore in the evening. Another ateIHP
was made with the howitZcr and this time the hawser
was pncd aboard and secured soon sailor III u per
lshinG condition was landed and wrapped III Dhhkels
and sent to tho station Then one more the last
survivor OF nine He WAS Charles Wuh OF Boston, aud
he said that the who preceded him the chief
mate and that his wife ald son were drowned IN the
cabin.
The vessel was the T. h. Wiiherspoon. OF
Rockland, Naive, Captain Alfred II. Anderson, from
surnam for Boston, loaded with moltsse sugar cocoa
sailed lines and spices The list Of the crew ana pas
sengers i follows: Captain Alfred II. Andcrsou'
Rockland. Me- perlshed mate Bnrdict Berry BrlstQ l.
Me- saved second mate. Maurice Ryder. lancolhVlllc
Me-. perished John Phillips. cook West indies. per
ished Charles Wulh Boston, saved; Nichols, Ah'tet
dam perished john MATHS Liverpool. pcrishcd; MFs
Burdick Berry and son. passengers. p"rshed
W,sutS rnN Ian lo-Eoports received by he Gen
cra superintendent Of the Life wing service SNOW
that nftrrn vessels were wrecked wtn TIA. scope OF
The operations Service during the stormH oi Fri
DAY night aud saturday morning last and that the crews
OF fourteen OF them rescued while that OF only
one ~. lost ThiS latter vessel tao schooner nary
g. Farr which ashore Ia flames IN the night tine
at sprIug Lake. v j. IL was found impossible To render
any ail 10 her crew. and II Il believed from latest re
ports received nat OF all the pr-uus "n p"ard OF hcr
two only were alive when she struck the shore
NORFOLK, Va. Jan. 1.-THE United states Coast Snr
steamer Biche on her way to the cur Tor winter
work. put into Hampton Roads for shelier from c re-
cent "a and sailed this morning Tor her destination
Friday night the gale was strouS mat Tue steamer
could make no hcddway The broke over ne vessel
as endangcr everything on deck Dut IL Is stht'
the experiment OF "pOurng oil on the trOuned waters
was tried win remarkable success. A baS nlod WIN
oakum oil dragged ascrn prevented further tTouDc
IN that respect.