Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-15
ONLY ONE SAVED
Ola Crew of Thirty-One on the
Steamer Enterkin.
They Are Washed From the
Rigging One by One.

Driven Ashore ON the Sands Of the North
Sea on the British COast-Ths Only
Survivor, an Apprentice Lad, Rescued
by Fishing Smack After Hours Of
Struggling with the Wind and Waves.
LONDON, Dec. 15-The list of disasters
to shipping, caused by the most recent
of the many severe storms which have
swept over the British Isles this year,
continues to receive additions almost
hourly. To give complete list Of these
maritime casualties would be an ex-
pensive and practically useless task, as
no American craft seems to have suf-
fered.
The only exception, so far as known,
to this rule is in the case of the British
ship Enterkin, Captain Sinclair, 1,614
tons, left Portland, Or, April 10, for
Hull, where she arrived on Sept 81.
After discharging her cargo and re-
loading with iron, the Enterkin sailed q
few days ago for Brisbane, Queensland,
Australia. During the gale of Saturday
night, the Enterkin was driven ashore
on the Galloper sands, in the North sea,
and will most likely become total loss,
while so far as known, all her crew,
thirty-one hands, with the exception Of
one apprentice, have been drowned
A Gallant Struggle.
The Enterkin was sighted on Sunday
morning by the fishing smack Briton's
Pride, belonging to Ramsgate. The
Briton's Pride, in face of the terrible
gale blowing, and though she was fire.
quently swept from stem to stern, plung-
ing repeatedly through heavy green seas
which threatened to enguh her, for
hours made series of most gallant
efforts to reach the doomed Enterlnn in
the hope of being able to save some
her crew. A few of the latter, the skin
per of the Briton's Pride afterward
ported, coul, at first be seen clingu
the damaged masts and yards CT the
fated vessel, but, one by one, tn
seemed to grow weak and numh a
We're swept from their places of refuge
in the rigging, and soon disappeared be-
meath the raging seas sweeping TO lee
ward of the Enterkin.
At last, it seemed to the gallant fisher.
men who manned the briton's Pride,
that the last of the Enterlnn's crew had
been washed overheard to his death,
and the little smack was upon the point
of wearing the ship for safer waters
when one of the fishermen insisted that
he could see y moving object in the tot
tering mizzenmast OF the wrecked ship.
When the skipper of the Briton's Pride
was convinced that this was an actual
fact, he renewed his efforts to bring his
small craft under the lee of the Enter
kin.
After another long and disheartening
struggle with winds and waves, durir2
which the hrave fishermen were times
out of number drenched to the skin u,r-
til they could hardly move from col
and exhaust on, the Briton's Pride VIZ.
cleverly brought to under the lee of the
stranded vessel, and while huge waves
pounded her until every plank and beam
in her comp ton worked as If crushed
beneath earthquake shocks, the fisher-
men rescued a poor lad named Lewis, an
apprentice, who was found more than
half dead, lashed to the rigging of the
Enterkin's mizzenmast.
Every One a Hero.
Lewis was safely landed at Ramsgate
by the sturdy crew of the Briton's Pri,le.
The lucky apprentice and the
fishermen are the lions of the
about that part of the coast, anu .o
effort is to he made to obtain for
gallant fishermen the medal ava i
for saving life at sea, by the ho ~
Humane society. A public subscription
to present tn fishermen with suita Jle
testimonial of the public esteem in
which their conduct upon this occasion
is held is alsc talked Of
No Hope for Them.
No hope is expressed that any Of the
thirty missing members Of the crew of
the Enterkin have been saved Tugs have
been sent out to look for any survivors
who may have been lucky enough to
have caught hold of some wreckage
when washed overheard, and who may
have succeeded in clinging to this posi-.
BILE means of salvation, but as ALREADY
stated, little or no hope is entertained
that any more of the Enterkin's crew are
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