The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-02

me could see the tail masts Of the sunken
ships, with few dark forms clinginR to
the spars. / padded and paddled away
and fiaally realized that l was drifting out
TO sea, and not making one inch toward
Barnegat.
FATE SEEMED AGAINST HIN.
"Twice I saw an ocean steamer but they
were miles away. Nevertheless l screamed
again and again at them for help. Then
saw some sailing vessels, but they, also,
were too far off to hear my feeble cries
The night passed slowly. and gave
up all hope. About o'clock in the
morning I heard fee lle cry to
my right, and saw the gnt ering eyes and
bewhiskered face OF a Spaniard in the
water. He had a raft of spars little bet
ter tnah mine and / swan over to him.
He could speak no English, and I could
speak no Spanish, but we shook hands in
the water there, aud felt that we would die
together. He had been washed off his raft.
helped him on TO it again and then climbed
on myself.
FIFTY-NINE LIVES LOST
1t is now certain that twenty-seven
lives were saved from the wrecksd
steamer Vizcaya. Word was received
from Delaware Breakwa,er this NON
ing that eight persons saved are now
there. tug was sent this morning to
sandy Hook for the seven survivors taken
of by the Marshall and now aboard that
vessel.
THE FIRST Mates VERSION.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. First Mate
Henry Perring of the ill-fated schooner
Cornelius Hargraves and six Of her crew,
together with six of the crew of the schoon-
er's victim. the Spanish steamer Vizcaya,
arrived here at $50 o'clock this evening
from Lewes. Del. Capt. John ]. Allen,
master of the Cornelius Hargraves, and
aboard the Sat ah L. Davis, the vessel that
picked the shipwrecked men up, and they
will not arrive here TIL tomorrow. Mate
Perring was interviewed upon the subject
of the disaster, and he tells substantially
the same story as Mate w Walker up to the lime
of taking to the boats. Mate Perrin says
nothing to impute cowardice or
abandonment on the part Of
Capt. Allan. and says he
(Perringl himself suggested to the captain
that lt was time to take TO the boats, as he
felt the schooner sinking under him. At
this time he had lost sight Of Mate Walker,
who had been orde ed to keep the Spaniards
back from taking possession of the boat.
Mate Perring relates this incident: "Among
the Spaniards wao jumped aboard the
schooner from the steamer I saw a man,
whom nave since learned by The papers
was the purssr, clasping two bags of gold
in his hands and begging our sailors to save
him and the money. L ey Id him to
throw it overbo lrd. 1t he refused and went
down with the bags in his hands"
SEEN FROM SHORE.
POINT PLEASANT, N. j.. Nov. 1.-The
spars of the wrecked steamer Vizcaya can
be plainly seen from shore. The steamer
lies directly il the line of ocean travel and
is a dangerous obstruction 20 navigation.
She lies about ten miles from shore. The
schooaer, although full Of water, still
floats and during the night drifted q con-
siderable distance to the eastwar
THE ILL-FATED SCHOONER.
FALL RIVER, MASS. Nov. 1.-The
schooner Cornelius Hargraves. which COL
liled with the steamer Vizcaya off Bar
negat, is owned here. She is four-master
Of 400 tons. cost S65, 900, and was launched
at Camden, Me-, in September, 1889. She
lost her anchor as she was putting OFF Cam
den harbor OH her first trip and was delayed
in consequence On her first voyage she
struck floating wreck off the Jersey coast
and was damaged $4,000. On the back trip
she los5 a portion of her rigging in gale,
and later got stuck in the mud in the Som
erset coal docks on this trip. She was blown
out to sea before she cargoed in Phi ade phia.
She hal just won out her losses when the
disaster occurred.