The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-10
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storms - The Vessel Abandoned in n
sinking Condition, the Captain and
Eighteen Of the Crew Supposedly Lost
and the Remainder Suffer for Three
Weeks In an Open Yawl Before Being
Rescued.
BALTIMORE, Nd, Oct 4-Full details Of
the laundering at sea OF the British
steamer Earnmoor, briefly telegraphed
yesterday, have been received here. Nine
teen lives were lost. The names Of those
who perished are as follows:
Richard j. Grey, captain.
- Stone, second mate.
- Louder, chief engineer.
VIM. Handemel, second steward.
VIM. Wright, cook.
Robert johnson, seaman.
Karl J. Turklesen, seaman.
Ludwig Loder, seaman.
VIM. Robinson, seaman.
Edward Johnson, seaman.
A. Legender, fireman.
Carl Crane. fireman.
Herman Tonges, fireman.
Heinrich Mas, fireman.
A. Roster. fireman.
A. Plagge, fireman.
James Charlatudo, fireman.
James Sinclair, fireman.
James Durant, mess boy.
Those known to have been saved are
First Mate Painter, Second Engineer
Meldrum and FIVE of the crew. The Earn
moor was a tramp steamer and was a
stanch steel vessel. She sailed from this
port on August 20, bound for Rio Janeiro
with O cargo of S6, 300 bushels of wheat
valued at 81, 700.
The steamer was in command of Cap
tain Richard ]. Grey, with a complement
Of twenty-si men, all told. She reached d
Hampton Roads August 80, but put to sea
again Immediately. Nothing Of special
interest occurred for the first three days
out, as the weather was comparatively
clear. She was rather a slow boat de-
signed for freighting exclusively, and
did not make over 175 miles q day.
She encountered high winds on the
night of Septe mber 8, and the sea became
very rough before the next morning.
The storm increas ed to hurricane DUR
ing that day and the steamer was hove to
for several hours. She was heavily
laden and was so deep in the water thai
the seas made clean sweep over her
decks for hours and inflicted consider
able damage. The cyclone became so ter
rible that the vessel could make no head
way against the sea, her triple expansion
engines of $50 horse power being unable
to keep her head to the storm and she
| broached to. Immense quantities Of
water were shipped Immediately, the
fre-room was flooded, the fires ex-
tinguished aud the vessel was wholly al
the mercy of the terrible glle. During
part of the night the crew worked fol
dear life at the pumps in a last despair
Ing effort to save the ship, but tht
frightful pounding which the hull con
tinued to receive by the mountainous
waves caused the seams to open and the
water poured in from below and above
and gained so rapidly on the weariet
men that it did not take long to realize
the help!essness Of the task. Every
thing was flooded below and the water
was gaining steadily in the hold.
As near as could be told by dead reck'
oning the Earnmoor was then about $50
miles off the lower coast of Florida, and
not very far east of the Bahama islands
Captain Grey finally gave up and ordered
the boats lowered on the morning OF
September 5. Water and provisions
were taken aboard and the crew put
off from the sinking vessel in the midst
of the raging storm. The captain with
his chief engineer, second mate and
sixteen of the crew occupied the
long boat, while the first mate,
second engineer and five OF
the crew were in the small boat The
force Of the hurricane and the shifting
winds soon separated the boats and moth
ing has since been heard of the Captain IS
boat. There is little doubt that the brave
commander and the eighteen men who
sought safety in the larger boat perished d
in the cyclone. For over three weeks the
first mate and his exhausted crew of six
in their little yawl kept up the struggle.
After drifting for twenty two days that
last dread alternative of shipwrecked
men began to force itself into the minds
of the famished seameD, who should be
the man to lay down his life to save the
others from starvation. The CHASTITY
alternative, however, was not resorted
to, because on the twenty third day o
vessel hove. in sight. Only one man
in the boat was strong enough tc
hold signal SO as to attract
the attention of the life giving
craft. She was the schooner Mosquito
from New York bound for Truxillo. She
bore down on them speedily. and theii
detection was turned to delirious Joy
when the famished mariners saw thai
their signals were seen and that they
were saved. The famished men were
taken aboard tho schooner and landed al
Nassau, New Providence, on September
40 more dead than alive