New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-15
SAVED IN DELAWARE BAY.
sUFFERINGs OF THE CREW ON = THE
SCHOONER w. o. SNOW.
RESCUED BY BRAVE SAILORS FROM THE
STEAMER SAXON TWO DAYS AND
NIGHTS IN THE RIGGING.
lBY TELEGRAPH TO lie TRIBUNE.l


Fan River, Mass, Sept. 14-The steamer Saxon,
OF the Winsor Line, arrived here this morning with
lne crew OF the schooner w. o. Snow, whom they
rescued In the Delaware Bay. The master of the
steamer, Captain S. @. Sherman, told the following
story On Thursday morning, about o'clock, we
sighted schooner on her beam ends with signal Of
distress flying The craft about a mile and a
nan from Browns shoal, Delaware Bay. Upon ap-
preaching the vessel It found that the crew were
10 the rigging Captain Sherman ordered boat TO be
lowered and detachment of sailors sent TO the founder
Lg schooner. The sea was running high and the
yawl containing the men was tossed about the
waves After a great deal Of difficulty the saxon's
men reached the unfortunate sailors in the rigging and
rescued them from their perilous position. moro
grateful body Of IL would be hard 10 hnd. The
rescued and rowed back to the steamer,
whore all were cared for
When Captain Hatch, Of the Snow, recovered he
gave an account of his misfortune The Snow left
Norfolk for Boston on September with cargo
OF coal. On the 10th she encountered the cyclone
that has been sweeping this coast for week. To
avoid the storm she put into Delaware BTeakwater
and anchored mile and half southeast OF Brown
Shoals, where IL expected she could ride out the
storm On Tuesday morning she met with a mis-
hap which sent her TO the bottom. The tug c. W.
Morse, with coal barges in tow put into the Break
water and anchored near the Snow. On Monday
night one OF the barges broke away and early Tues
day morning there was tremendous crash. The
barge, carried along by the gale struck the schooner
full on. The captain and crew of the latter took to
The rigging and hung for dear life. The barge
went down after the collision and her crew,
It is feared, went with her. Her name is unknown
Lashed to the spars and crosstrees, Captain Hatch
and his eight men remained for forty y-eght hours
with the constantly breaking over them Just
as hope was abandoned the Saxon, attempting to
make her way out, the crew. Volunteers were
called for, and four brave undertook the rescue
In small boat. 1t perilous task, and time
and again 1t looked If all hands would be lost
They persevered however, and succeeded in taking off
the ninc men.
Before the Snow went over on her beam ends, all
hands worked at the pumps In effort to save the
vessel but the water poured into the vessel in such
volume as TO render the pumps worthless. Death
threatened the men every moment The schooner
filed rapidly and the only way the men had of reliev-
ing their hunger To crawl to the cabin and seize
whatever food was at hand. The following day the
steamer D. 5. Lang was seen, but she could not ap-
proaeh Finally, the saxon was sgnaled and the
sailors hearts filled with Joy when they saw the
big black vessel stop and lower yawl In an effort
10 rescue them.
Two hours after the rescue the vessel disappeared
with two coal barges which lay close by. The io
lowing the names of The men: Captain NJ W:
New- Bedford; William Weir. second mate. of New
FORK: L. ". nyng, steward, of Boston: George
sylvia and william Follis. of ew-Bedfod Edward
sullivan. of Boston. and Samuel Erickson, of Russia
Agent Jernegan. OF the Wilson Line, acquainted
Agent Ackley. Of the Old Colony Company. with the
story and passes kindly issued to the unfortunate
sailors All grateful 10 Captain sherman, Of
the Saxon. for taking so many chances in ryng 10
save them The Saxon was due here on Taursday @ Snr
tain remained In Delaware Bay tht1 the storm abaied
The william o. Snow was a three-masted. double
decked schooner of 500 tons register. and was bult
al Bath In 1881 for @. H. Rhodes. of Taunton Her
| capacity was about 800 tons.