The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-02

All of the passengers except DR.. Lamar,
his wife and two children, who went to
the home of Capt. G. w Lamar, were
taken to the De Soto in the bus which
had been waiting for an hour or more.
IN ALL SORTS OF RIGS.
They had lost all their clothing in the
wreck and their costumes, whileodd, were
the best that could be furnished them at
the places where they were obliged to land.
Two of the ladies wore big surf
bathing hats, which were perhaps
a good protection under the hot sun.
As Capt. Savage came of the tug he
said, II may have lost my ship for good,
but I've saved all the passengers and
crew and I'm satisfied"
81 was happy man when 1 got them
all together" said Capt. Savage yester-
day afternoon. 'I've worked hard, and
Pm satisfied now with what I've DONE"
eve left the city yesterday about 6
O'Clock and arrived at Beaufort, where we
went first about noon. We supposed that
something would be known there with re-
gard to the location of the stranded
people, but they had no more information
at Beaufort than we did They kindly
offered US any assistance they could give,
however, and furnished us pilot free of
charge
THE SEARCH FOR THE SURVIVORS.
''We then left Beaufort for st. Helena,
where we thought at least a portion of
the party had landed and reached there
about two O'Clock in the afternoon. My
self and two of the men went ashore in a
small boat and found that one of the life
boats which had been sent out
from the wreck had landed there.
Three lifeboats in all had
been sent out One left the ship
on Monday with three seamen in her to
go and procure assistance, but they were
stranded on one of the islands and we
never heard anything from them. The
other two left the ship early Tuesday
morning, each carrying a load of twelve
people. 1t was one of these boats, the
one in command of Second Officer Parte-
low, that had landed her on St. Helena Is
land.
WELL CARED FOR.
81 found that this party, among which
were about half the passengers who left
the wreck, had been well cared for at
Senator Don Camerons place. In fact, it
seemed they had been so well cared for
that they did not like the idea of leaving
when we came for them. They were glad
to see us, however, and willingly went
aboard the tug.
This party could give US no informa-
tion with regard to the others. They had
not heard from them, and had no idea
where they had gone. I felt satisfied
that they were somewhere about on
one Of these islands, and l was deter
mined to find them if it took a week. !
would have gone to every one of those
islands and searched it from one end to
the other before 1 would have come back
without them. With small boat and
two men we started out on the search.
We rowed around all night,
FOUND IN A LIGHTHOUSE.
This morning about o'clock we
reached Hunting Island, about seven
miles from st. Helena, where the other
party had been found, and went at once
up to the lighthouse. We found them
all there in care of the lighthouse keeper
and his wife, who had done everything in
their power to make their forced stay
comfortable.
They were about as surprised to see
us as we were glad to find them, and
know that they were safe. They had
had no difficulty, it seems, in getting
ashore, and Mrs. Lamar, upon whom the
trip had been especially hard on account
of her having her two children with her,
looked as well as she did when she left
Boston. AS soon as we could get them
all up and dressed we started for the
tug, leaving the island about 5 o'clock
this morning.
PREPARING TO LEAVE THE ISLAND.
''It was fortunate we arrived at the
hour we did, for they were just preparing
to leave the island in a small boat to go to
Beaufort. We went direct to the tug
without any difficulty, and started for
home, going by Beaufort to leave the
pilot who had gone out with us
me Clby OF OuFduudu,' Salu capt.,
Savage, presents a different appearance
from what she did whom we left her
She seems to be all right so far as 1 can
see and is standing the sea we'll.
THE STRANDED VESSEL.
"IHhe cabin and almost everything on
her starboard side is gone, and, in fact,
if you look at her from that side you
would think that she was a total
wreck, but if you look at her
from the port side you would think
that she was as good a vessel
as ever. 1t was perfectly smooth around
her yesterday, and everything looks all
right. From her outside appearance 1
think that she could be taken up and
easily put in good condition, but whether
there is anything the matter with her
hull or not I don't know. 1t breaks my
heart to look at her now. There may
have been better vessels on the line, but
there is none that liked better
Il have left First Officer Gro
well in charge, with two men,
and they are on board now to
keep her secure from the ravages of ship
pirates Twill go over there again some
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