Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-03-31

British steamship Barigueen, which went
ashore at that point on Saturday. The
ships loaded with cotton and bound from
Galveston to Newport News. She is close
in shore and lying easy and the engineer
reports her tight. 1t is believed both the
ship and cargo will be saved. The wreck
ING steamer Victoria Peed and barge Sey-
mour being in the vicinity at once went 70
work on her. and the Jones carried down
additional pumps and apparatus. Inc
weather on the coast to-day Is favorable,
but the sea continues very high. The cap
tain and crew are on board the Bariqueen
and she flies the Spanish flag. Her cargo
consists OF 1000 bales of cotton and large
quantity of cotton-seed and oil-cake, etc.
FOUR MORE BODIES.
Crowds Of people went to Virginia Beach
yesterday 70 see the surf and the wreck or
the Norwegian bark Dictator. -Four more
bodies have come ashore. The most OF
the wreck has come ashore and the cargo
OF lumber strews the beach for miles. The
masts and spars show considerable rotten;
ness, and the ship was evidently IN lad
condition 10 go to pieces so quickly. The
bodies OF the men az soon as recovered
are buried near the beach.
UNUSUAL RECORD.
Three wrecks within week on this p0r-
ton of the Carolina and Virginia coast 10
an unusual record and shows the severity
of the weather this season on the coast.
Lieutenant Failing, inspector of llfe-savIng
stations, arrived at the wreck OF the Die
tator yesterday from North Carolina.
THE BARK DICTATOR.
The body of Mrs. Jorgensen. wife of the
csgN los. Il - r.stll lf Ir. nh
TO the city and buried from Grauby-Street
Methodist Episcopal church tomorrow
afternoon. All the other bodies have been
found except two. one of which is that Of
the Captains little child. Mrs. Jorgen-
sens funeral will be conducted by Rev. j.,
b. Marritt, seaman's chaplin. assisted by
Rev. w. l.. Evans, the pastor. There will
be especial music for the occasion by the
choir of that church and the attendance
will be very large no doubt. The sur
yivng seamen are quartered at turlong's
boarding-house,. Plume street Collins
have been sent down to the beach for the
remains, and arrangements for the funerals
are now in progress.
A NOBLE ACT.
II was Easter-Sunday yesterday and the
noble guests of the Princess Ammo Hotel
honored the day, making it oil the more
glorious in Christian spirit by present
ing purse of $500 TO the shipwrecked sea-
men. As IL customary when loss of lite at
tends disaster on the coast, an investiga-
ton has been commenced to see If there was
any neglect of duty on the part of the life
savers in connection with the wreck Of the
Norwegian bark Dictator at Virginia Beach
Friday. Lieutenant L. ID. Walker. of the
United States revenue service and deputy
inspector of life-saving stations, arrived
here yesterday morning and went at once
to Station No. 2, near the Princess Anne
Hotel. and began an official inquiry in the
loss of lives OF five of the Dictator's crew.
together with the wife and little boy of the
captain of that vessel.
WERE THE LIFE-sAvBRs NEGLIGESTI
Lieutenant Walker will go down TO bot
tom facts and find out why ii was seven
mortals were allowed to drown within
sight Of two life-saying stations, and not q
boat from either go TO the rescue. 1t Is
evident TO every intelligent mind that
precious time was lost by Captain Drink
water from 10 o'clock until In futile at
tempts to fire the life line to the
stranded vessel, and that there never was
q line fred across tho vessel, but the lines
were gotten 10 the doomed ship by means
or the appliances sent from her own decks.
THE CAPTAINS STORY.
Captain Jorgensen said he believed the
life-boat could have been sent of to him.
:" | was afraid 10 send my wife of in the
breeches-buoy at first, so / concluded to
try some of the men in it, and finding that
they went on safely carried her up on the
mast to put her III the buoy (Nrs. Jorgen-
sen was dressed in a suit of the Captains
clothes), but l failed to get her IN the
buoy. Once | found q sailor had crept
into il and | thought would not make him
get out but would send her when il came
back, and when / again tried to get her
into il the ropes were twisted so that
couldn't. The second man sent ashore
was instructed to signal me if boat could
come out.
NO BOAT CAME.
He didn't give me the signal agreed
upon, but l saw flag raised on which was
the letter wv" | took that to mean
" wait" 80 | waited and no boat came. |
concluded to leave the vessel with my
wife and child. lashed the little fellow
to my breast and put a life-buoy around
us. When | struck tho water sank. My
wife lost sight of me and that is why she
did not leave the vessel. Captain Jorgen-
sen will report the case to his consul, and
Colonel Lamb is not the man to let any
doubt of the noble cause of duty pass by
unheeded.
HE BEGGED TIE CAPTAIN.
Charles Francis, one of the survivors,
said that he was in command OF the boat
that left the ship, and that he begged the
Captain for the woman and child, tor he
was certain TO land them safely, hut the
excited captain refused to separate himself
from his loved ones. The life-saving men
T.. 1.rft oil ha
around as we'll as the captains of stations
are. with full and liberal pay to secure the
best and most experienced surfmen, and
their individual attention to their duties
demanded.
SAVED By THE PILOTS.
During the recent storm the steam pilot
boat Pilot while cruising of Cape Henry
light. Edward Il. Thursby. who was on
watch at the time, sighted two men cling
ing to an overturned canoe. An extremely
high sea was running, accompanied by
terrific gale. Thursby and two others OF
the crew got into yawl-boat and after
severe struggle managed to reach the cap
sized boat. SO rough was the sea that one
of the men was being washed on the canoe
when grasped by Thursby, who saved him
in the nick OF time. The two men were
taken of the overturned canoe and carried
and rubbed and then rolled in blankets.
After considerable hard work one Of the
sufferers was restored to consciousness.
but the other was in much worse condi-
ton and his recovery at present is exceed
ingly slow.
AusrooK THE LIGHTS.
Jack Smith, the young man who was
brought back to life. and Robert Brown,
his companion, reside in Norfolk, and were
bound home from Mathews county near
the Rappahannock. 1t was night, and
they intended steering for Thimble light.
They mistook the Cape Henry light. how
brisk wind. At midnight a strong s9uall
struck them and the canoe capsized. They
irifted on past Cape Henry and out into
the ocean. Their suferings were terrible.
and their boat had drifted about thirty
miles and they had been clinging to 1t for