The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-28
SNATCHED FROM THESEA
BIG DAYS WORK BY LIFE
SAVERS AT CAPE HENRY.

A Bark Comes Ashore With Eighteen
souls-The Vessel Pounding in tie
Breakers-The Crew Unac quain ted
With the Use OF the Breeches Buoy-
Eight of Them Finally Reacn Shore.
NORFOLK, VA, March 27.-The Norwel
gian bark Dictator, from Pensacola, Fla, to
West Hartlepool, England, laden with pine
rambler, with a crew Of fifteen and the cap
tsin's Young wife and little boy of years,
came ashore in strong easterly gale this
morning. four miles south of Cape
Henry and two miles north Of the
Virginia Beach hotel The weather was so
thick that the vessel wa not seen until 9
O'Clock, and then she was in the breakers
,,roadside on, within quarter of mile Of
the shore. Full crews from the life saving
stations of Cape Henry and Seatack, under
command of Capt. Drinkwater, were
promptly on hand and began firing life
lines to the Inflated bark.
COULDN'T REACH THE SHIP.
The guns could not deliver the lines so
far. though they were repeatedly fired.
The ship finally succeeded in getting a line
ashore tied to a barrel, which the surf
carried to the ife-savers. A breeches
buoy was quickly rugged and sent
to the vessel, but unfortunately
the bark's crew were ignorant of its use and
rescue was delayed until Capt. Drinkwater
of the life saving crew wrote instructions,
put them in bottle and sent them to the
Dictator by the line connecting the vessel
with the shore.
EIGHT MEN REACH SHORE.
The men on board broke the bottle at
once, as could be seen by glasses from shore,
and proceeded to carry out the directions
The first man was delivered ashore in eight
minutes, and seven others were rescued be-
fore sunset, four of whom came ashore in a
life-boat which was capsized, but the men
succeeded in reaching the shore in
half dead condition, one man
having his arm broken. During the entire
day the ship rolled and pitched terribly and
made the work of rescuing the unhappy
sailors exceedingly difficult and slow, as the
life line would tighten or slacken in response
to the motion Of the vessel. Once the line
broke with a man midway to the shore, and
be was hauled back to the bark half dead.
The line was mended and the same man was
safely Landed.
SPECTATORS ON THE BEACH.
The beach was lined with people who had
come from the country houses and hotel,
and to the spectators the anxiety and sus-
pense was awful, as they could plainly see
the people on the bark and hear their con
stant cries for succor. At nightfall there
ere still nine persons on board of the bark,
and among the number the captain, his wife
and little child. The captain urged his wife
all during the day to take the
buoy aud come ashore, but she steadily re-
TuSp1 8 { eha ha-
and child, and only one could take the buoy
at a time. The wife and child were already
greatly exhausted, according to the report
Of the sailors.
THE CAPTAIN LEAVES HIS WIFE.
Tonight the work of rescue was CON-
tlnued, and the captain. after vainly be-
seeching his wife to make the attempt for
life, took his halt-dead child and climbed
into the buoy. The father reached the
shore but the son was lost. 1t has been i'm
possible to get the names of the re scued
Tonight, owing to the fact that they are en-
tlrely exhausted and seem to be foreigners.
Lloyd's register gives the captains name as
Jorgonson. The bark will be a complete
wreck, as she is fast going to pieces aud the
sea is still tremendous. The chances are
that by daylight tomorrow there will be no
vessel in sight, and all remaining on board
Tonight will be lost.
UNABLE TO TAKE AN OBSERVATION.
All that could be gathered from the half
uead sailors as to the cause of the strandiug
OF Inc vessel was that they did not know
"here they were, the sun not having been
seen for four days and the weather was so
thlck last night and this morning that
Cney struck the breakers before they
coulo see the coast. The life
savers have worked all day with
great olugence and heroism, without food
eince early this morning. The apparently
SLOW progress of the work of rescue is due
70 tne Iact that the life-boat could not live
an the surf and that the guns would not
aeecn tne Dark, and that the crew could not
use the breeches buoy until thew ware in
delay "''' NSO'0u g e"0
THE BARK GOES TO PIECES
NORFOLK, March 81. IL P M.-The bark
nas gone to pieces and the seven persons
TnG remained on board have been lost, in
taGulig ta the wife Of the captain. The cap
@ OeIn JUST before the ship went to pieces
epIuhg into the sea with his son strapped
~ MS pack and reached the shore alive. but
IoS Io poy was lost. making a total
aoes s'I Ii eight lives. The list of the saved is
Ta.oWs: tohoWs: Capt. j. NJ. Jorgenson, Second
Tale Julius Anderson, Ampter Barrett.
Sohn Stevens, John Patterson. YeImer
Gha GGhIseG John Mall, Carlo Olsen (broken arm,
Unsties Joseph (colored). The Dictator
was w@ trying to make Hampton roads. having
10 peen disabled by the hurricane since March
VINEYARD HAvEN's WRECKS.
VINEYARD HAVEN, MASS. March 81
Ian Ian, pumps have been put aboard the
HnaGo Hnlteo States steamship Galeua at Cav
bor, beau, ana an effort will be made to pump
r ner out to enable the wreckers to save the
noa.n t"sellai from the lower hold. A light
COatnerly wind and smooth sea are on et
booyS bay head. Coal and light articles have
Trian TISn removed from the tug Nina. The
ran;JI, on Cuttyhunk, is breaking up
loopilIy. The wreckers have been at work
1tGboSenlnR tbn her boilers and machinery, and
toD5.g Jug William Slater left New Bedford
Today to remove them,