The farmers' union., 1891-04-02
ZONE TO TIE BOTTOM.
VIRGINIA LIFE SAVERS DO NO.
BILE WORK.


Norwegian Bark's Grew Find watery
Graves on Cape Hanry-ThriIling De-
scription.
The Norwegian ark Dictator, from
PENSACOLA, Fla, to West llartlepool,
ngiand, laden with pine lumber,
with a crew Of fifteen and the
captains You wife and little boy
Of 3 years, went ashore in Il strong east
crly gale four miles south f Cape Henry,
Va, and two miles north of the Virginia
Bench Hotel. The weather was 81 thick
that the vessel was net seen until
o'clock Il m. and then She was in the
breakers broadsid" GA. within a quarter
of a mile of tie shore. Full crews from
two iife-Savng stations, those of Cape
Henry and Sratick, under command of
Captain Drinhwater, We're promptly on
hand and began firing lines To the Inflated
bark. The guns could not deliver the
lines SO far. though they were repeated
Iy fired. Tie ship finally succeeded in
getting line ashore tied To a barrel,
which the surf carried to the life-Sa
The breeches buoy was quickly rigged
anu sent to the vessel. hut unfortunately
the bark : crew We're ignorant OF its
use. and the rescue was delayed until
Captain llrinkWayer. of the iif,-saying
crew, wrote Instructions, put them in a
! bottle, and sent it 10 The. Dictator by the
line connecting the Nrss ! with the shore
| The men on board broke the bottle at
once, as could be seen by glasses from
the shore. and pro cecded to carry out
the directions.
The first man was delivered ashore in
| eight minutes, and seven others We're
res -ued before sunset, four of whom
| came ashore in life boat which was
fat,StynI hIrf tho Snn.na1nj in,
| reaching the shore in half dead condi-
| ton, one man having his arm broken,
| During the entire day the ship rolled
| 8nd pitched terribly. and made the work
| Of rcscuing the unhappy sailors exceed
| ingiy difficult and slow, as the life line
| would tighten or s!acken in response to
| the motion Of the vessel. Once the limo
| broke with a man midway to the sh, re.
| and he was hauled back to the bark half
| dead The line WAS mended and the
| same man safely landed. The
| beach was lined with People who
had come from the country houses
| and the hotel, and to the spec
tators the anxiety aud suspense was
| awful, as they could plainly see the
| people on the bark and hear their con-
| slant cries for succor. At nightfall
| there We're still nine persons on the
| tain, his wife, and little child The
| captain had urged his wife all during
| the day to take the buoy and come
| ashore, but she steadily refused, as she
| would not leave her husband and child,
and only one could take the buoy at
| time. The wife and child were already
| greatly exhausted, according 10 the re-
| port OF the sailors At night the work
| OF rescue was continued, and the captain
| vainly hcSonght his wife to make the at
| tempt for life. 1t has been impossible to
| get the names Of the rescued tonight,
owing to the fact that they are entirely
| exhausted and AL are foreigners.
Lioyds register gives the captains
name rs ,Iorgonson. The bark is a COM
| p!et. wreck and went to pieces fast: the
sea was tremendous. All that could be
| gathered from the half-dead sailc,s as to
the cause of the stranding of the vessel
was that they did not know where they
| were, the sun not having been seen for
| four days. and the weather 50 thick last
| night and this morning that they struck
| the breakers before they could see the
| coast. The life savers worked all day with
| great, heroism without food since morn
ing. The apparently slow progress of the
| work of rescue is due to the fact that a
! 'ifc-hoat could not live in the surf, and
| nat the guns would not reach the bark,
| and that the crew could not use the
| breeches buoy until they were Instructed
| from shore, which caused great DELAY.
The captain, just before the snip went
to pieces. sprang into the sea with his
son strapped to his back and reached the
shore alive. but the boy was lost, making
total of eight lives The Dictator was
trying to make Hampton Roads. having
| been fifteen days disabled by hurricanes