Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-03-28

Eight Lives Lost From the Norvsgia. Bari
Dictator.


Dictator.
The Norwegian bark Dictator, from Pensa-
cola. Fla. to West Hartiepool. England, laden
with pine lumber, with a crew Of fifteen
and the captains young wife and little boy Of
three years. came ashore in strong sasterly
gale yesterday morning four miles south Of
Cape Henry and two miles north of Virginia
Beach Hotel. The weather was so thick that
the vessel was not seen until o. clock and then
she was in the breakers broadside on, within
quarter of . mile Of the shore.
LrFE-sAvINe CREWS RESPOND.
Full crews from two life-saving stations.
those of Cape Henry and Seatack, under COM
mand of Capt Drinkwater. were promptly on
hand and began firing lines to the Inflated
bark. The guns could not deliver the lines
far, though they were repeatedly fired. The
ship finally succeeded in getting line ashore
tied to barrel, which the surf carried to the
life savers. The brooches buoy was quickly
rugged and sent to the vessel. but unfortunately
the barks crew were ignorant OF its use, and
the rescue was delayed until Capt. Drinkwater
OF the life saving crew wrote instructions, put
them In bottle and sent il to the Dictator by
the line connecting the vessel with the shore.
The men on board broke the bottle ut once, as
could be seen by glasses from the shore, and
proceeded to carry out the directions.
BROUGHT ASHORE BY THE BUOY.
Tho first man was delivered shore In eight
minutes, and seven others were rescued before
sunset four Of whom came ashore in life
boat, which was capsizcd, but the men sue
coed in reaching shore in half-dcad con
dition, one man having his arm broken. Dur
ing the entire day the ship rolled and pitched
terribly, and made the work Of rescuing the
unhappy sailors exceedingly difficult and slow,
rs the life line would tighten or sacken in re-
spouse to the motion of the vessel. Once the
line broke with man midway TO the shore and
he was hauled back TO the bark half dead. The
Inc was mended and the same man was safely
landed.
The beach was lined with people, who came
from the country houses and the hotel, and to
the spectators the anxiety and suspense were
awful, as they could plainly see the people on
the bark and hear their constant cries for sue
on the bark. and among the number the cap
tain, his wife and little child. The captain had
urged his wife all during the day to take the
buoy and como 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 ex-
hausted, according to the report Of the sailors.
THE BARK GOES TO PIECES.
The bark later went to pieces and the seven
that remained on her were lost, including the
wife of the captain. The captain just before
with his son strapped to his back and reached
the shore alive, bnt the boy was lost, making a
total loss of eight lives. The list of the saved
is as follows:
Capt. j. NJ. Jorgensen, Second Mate julius
Anderson, Ampler Barrett, John Steven, John
Patterson, Yelmer Olsen. John MALTA, Carlo
Olsen (broken arm) Charles Joseph. colored.
The Dictator was trying to make Hampton
Roads, having been disabled by hurricanes
since the 18th instant.
LOST THE RECKONING.
All that could be gathered from the half
dead sailors as to the cause of the stranding of
the vessel was that they did not know where
they we're, the sun not having been seen for four
days and the weather being so thick Thursday
night and yesterday morning that they struck
the breakers before they could see the coast
The life savers worked all day with great dill
gence and heroism without food since early in
the morning. The apparently slow progress
of the work of rescue is due to the fact that the
life boat could not live in the surf and that the
guns would not reach the bark and that the
crew could not use the brooches buoy until
they were instructed from shore, which caused
great delav