The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-04-20
WRECK OF THE SCHOONER MOULTON.
AsurvIvor's story Of the Loss of a
Maine Vessel.
Washed Overheard and Rescued Af-
ter Long Struggle.
Schooner Ward 1. PIummer Reports
the Loss of Two Men.

New YORK, April 19.-Mate Proctor. who
with the other survivors of the crew of the
wrecked. schooner j. S. Moulton of Machi-
asport, Maine, was landed here yesterday
by the steamer Claaribel, tells an interesting
story of the vessels terrible experience and
the loss Of Capt. Cole and one Of the crew as
reported yesterday. He says
"The schooner was Of 210 tons. She had a
cargo Of logwood consigned to H. b. Roosen
q Co., Of AZ South street. Her crew consist
ed of I. S. Cole, master; myself, Albert
Sawyer, the cook; Charles II. johnson,
Primus Childs and Toby Thompson, seamen
and Willie Darrah, who was working his
passage. We sailed from Jamaica on March
20 and had fine weather till Saturday, April
9th.
"All Saturday night the sky was very
black. On Sunday the wind had kept in
creasing in violence during the forenoon,
but we kept heading northeast till 10 o'clock
when the fury OF the, storm again broke
Loose and our malnsail was carried away
bodily. We kept before the wind under the
foresail till ten minutes of four, when 1t was
carried away.
"The captain and myself then went on
deck. We had scarcely been up ten minutes
before one of the men at the wheel shouted
"Look out" The words had scarcely been
uttered when the schooner was struck by
tremendous sea, which carried off her only
boat, took the entire quarter rail clear to the
deck and dashed OF with the steering
gear.
We had scarcely steadied ourselves when the
schooner was struck from the other side.
The captain, myself and Toby Thompson
were. standing together and we're just making
for shelter when another sea struck us and
we went OvQrh0ard.
"The captain and Thompson must have
been instantly carried away. / was dashed
against the rigging and thus got my neck
and arms entangled in mass OF tangled
sidRs' sGRs' which were hanging over the ships
"How long hung thus l cannot say. To
me 1t seemed an eternity. / shouted and
hallooed for help, but the men on board say
that It must have been fully ten minutes be-
fore they heard me. My sufferings you nsay
imagine. There was rope around my
neck. which felt was slowly straDgliDg me.
The vessel pitched and tossed and / rolled
like cork.
"Every movement to leeward dashed me
against her side, and when we went to wind
ward loose rigging beat.me as with so many
cudgels. managed to relieve the strain on
my neck by holding on the rope with my
hands but they were soon so bruised and
battered that found / would soon have to
let go and die of stran gulation, when, Just
as my strength was giving out was hauled
on deck. Charley johnson and another one
of the crew were badly hurt.
Nothing was ever seen or heard again of
the captain or Toby Thompson.
"On wednesday morning. about half past
seven o'clock, we sighted a steamer that
answered our signals and bore up for us.
We soon made her out to be the Claribel, OF
the Atlas line. Her arrival came Just in the
nick of time for / don't think that the
schooner would have lasted us twelve hours
lonoern