New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-13

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sells which had sought the refuge Of the
breakwater The refuge was insufficient.
By IL o'clock the sea broke over the
breakwater, wrecked the telegraph station. carried
| away the big fog-bell, and rushed shoreward
| sweeping away the steamboat pier and dashing
| the Italian bark II Salvatore against the iron
| Government pier. The piers of Brown 81 20.
| and Luce Bros. gave way and were swept TO
sea. The United States Marine Hospital was
| dashed from it's moorings and sent spinning down
the beach The Lewes Life-Saving Station, forty
| feet above high water mark, was flooded, and its
foundation undermined. Hugheyville, suburb
| between the town and beach, was submerged, and
its 200 inhabitants fed for life, leaving all
their possessions behind The first boat
came ashore at a. m. Then came another and
another The life-saving station crew, rein
forced by the Henlopn and Rehoboth crews, have
labored almost increasingly ever since. The crew
of every vessel that struck was taken of by these
daring men, and not life was lost among the
scores of the men they handled.
Following is a complete list of the vessels that
came ashore: Italian bark II SALVATORE, American
schooner Henry NJ Clark, British schooner
Byron NJ, American schooners Alena
Covert, Gertrude Summers, G. +. Becker,
e. and L. Bryan. Maud Leonard, Nina A. Reed,
Novena. Charles p Stickney total loss, Addie B.
Bacon. S. A. Rudolph, Eliza Hooper, Emily r.
Dwyer, J. d. Robinson. American ship w. r.
Grace, American barge Timour. Danish bark
Atalanta. American brig Richard J. Green, Amer
lean schooneTs. Major W. Ii. Tantum total loss,
Nettie Champion, pilot-bOat T. f. Bayard, barges
Wallace and Tonawanda, and two others names
unknown. A vessel was sunk off the Brown
Shoals All the crew were drowned
except two, who got ashore on
raft Another vessel in regard to which there
is dispute as to her being a bark or three
masted schooner as her topmasts only can be dis
covered, is sunk on the Shears Shoals. 1t is not
known whether her crew escaped. The total
number of lives lost will probably exceed forty.
Five of the eight men who composed the crew of
the f. and L. Bryan pershed where the vessel
struck on Brandywne Shoals. Tne mate and two
seamen caught spar and drfted all night. At day.
break the others discovered that of the sailors
was dead, his body still lashed to the SPAR
The two survivors were picked up
by a tug and brought to Lewes. There
is great concern over the crew Of pilot
boat Ebe Tunnel. She put to sea on Monday
and has not been heard from Pilots John Barnes,
Lewis Bertrand and Jssnes Rowland Barry Hick-
man, son of Harbeson Hickman, and a crew of
eight men were on board. The New-JerSey pilot
boat Edmunds was blown across the bay, and
grounded on the Jersey coast with her sails
in tatters. New-York pilot-bOat No. was driven
in from the sea, but made anchorage safely. An
unknown schooner is ashore at RehOboth, and
the coast for miles down is reported TO be strewn
with wrecks.
News comes from RehobOth that the surf
broke over the BrighthOuse porch, that Surt-ave
was entirely washed away, and that the Douglas
House was surrounded by water and Its inmates
were in great terror. Three vessels previously re-
ported lost outside the capes are the schoOnerS
Kate Il. Morse Walter f. Parker and j. and L.
Bryan. Two men alone. colored man ana
German, have come ashore as survivors from these
wrecks They were on a, raft rom p. M MONDAY
posed the crews Of these schooners are given up
Tor lost" .. No,v VOL,
ship W. R. Grace is the point of the cape in
IA bad way The crew were saved. There is a
small schooner ashore at Rehoboth.
The crew OF the tug A. IL. Luckenbach which
Iay alongside of the schooner Kate f. Morse all
night, succeeded this morning IN taking the
crew of the latter, vessel nine In
number on board. The schooner was blown on
Hawks Nest Shoal about p m on Monday,
September o. The crew took to the rigging,
where they remained clinging to the ropes for
nearly forty hours. The men were nearly ex-
hausted when rescued by those on the tug and
could not have lasted much longer. 1t was i'm
possible for the tug TO approach the stranded
schooner nearer than twenty yards and the men
in the rigging were directed to jump overheard.
As a man struck the water a rope would be
thrown to him and he would be lifted on board
the tug. After getting all on board, the Lucken-
bach brought them to this place, where they were
landed with the assistance of the lfesavlng crew.
Shortly after the Morse went on the shOal,
schooner supposed to be the Walter F. Parker
also grounded within. thirty yards OF the Morse
She soon broke up and those on the Morse saw her
crew drown one by one The Morse is total