The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-09-21
FOUR WRECKS REPORTED AT ROcKLAHD
Damage to shipping During the Re-
cent Gale on the Coast.
An Unknown Schooner Ends Her
Career on Roaring BuIi Ledge.
Two Brave Men callantiy Rescue
Four shlpwrecked Sailors.
Especial to the press.l


RocKLAND. September 20-Schooner Sarah
@. Pyle, Sylvester. Of Gloucester, Is ashore
at Ten Pound Island, Matinicus. She part.
ed her cable in yesterdays gale and went on
the rocks. The crew Is safe on Matinicus.
The schooner Abbie Thaxter, previously
reported ashore at White Head has gone to
pieces.
Word has just been received from Swans
Island that an unknown two masted sehoon-
er is sunk on Roaring Bull ledge. In yester-
days gale the schooner struck and rolled
over just as the fog shut in.
Fishing schooner Aroostook. Captain AL
fred Bradford, Of Gloucester, from the
Georges. homeward bound, put in here this
forenoon and landed four shlpwrecked sail
ors OF the schooner q. l.. Cotter, Of st.
Johns, Newfoundland, bound to New York
with laths. The Ar0ost00k In heavy south
east squall yesterday, about noon, about 70
miles southeast Of Matinicus rock, saw the
sails Of a stranger carried away, and soon af-
ter the vessel capsized. The wind was blow
ing about eighty miles an hour and the sea
was running very high, the vessel being bur-
led to her matches. The ArOostook bore
down where the vessel was last seen and saw
four sailors clinging 10 the stump OF the fore
tOpmast and fraEtically waving for assist
answered their signals to give them courage.
wore ship and fetched to leeward. The dOry
was got ready and the captain called for vol
unteers. One man responded, George Col
son Of Bucksport, Maine, and after giving
the crew directions about managing the yes
sci the captain and Colson manned the dory
and entered upon their perilous undertaking.
The sea was running very high, breaking
completely over the vessel. After desper-
ate struggle the dory was worked to the lee
ward Of the wreck, and carefully up toward
the men, the swaylng, twisting mass OF
wreckage and broken spars making SEEM
ingly impossible barrier between the four
sailors and their rescuers. Captain Brad
ford gave orders that when the dory wss
near enough to the swaying mast the men
should Jump, one at time, as any rush or
hurry would drown them all. The sailors
acted very manly, and the first as the dory
drew near, began to prepare himself for his
desperate leap. 1t was indeed desperate
leap for men who had hung for so long IN
the swaying ratlines with the sea breaking
over them threatening to wrench them from
their hold, with an insecure footh0ld at the
best and benumbed BY the cold water and
exposure. A mlscalculati0n, slip meant
death, perhaps for the occupants OF the dory
as we'll as the sailor and his companions, but
the jump was made, and so on, one after the
other. the men lying fiat In the bottom OF
the dory as they succeeded in getting aboard.
The overhanging mast, rapidly loosening,
theatened at any moment to swamp the dory
and drown its occupants. and all breatbed
more freely when clear from Ii. Then came
the trying struggle 10 turn the dory In the
sea, the most difficult task Of all, but IL was
safely accomplished and the vessel reached.
The Cotter was stripped Of her sails In the
gale after a long struggle with heavy winds
and rough sea, and then knocked over by the
force Of the gale, which blew with ipcredi-
BILE volumes. Captain Myrant Of the Cotter
was at the wheel at the time and was
drowned, as was his wife.
The Henry ciay's People Saved.
NoRFoLK, Va, September 20.-Steamship
ID. III. Miller arrived from Boston tonight.
Captain Taylor reports that yesterday morn
ing, during strong northwest gale he res
cued the captain and crew Of the schooner
Henry Clay, bound for Portland, Me. The
schooner was In a sinking condition and had
IN he abandoned