Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1893-08-30
STORM ECHOES.
The High Seas Cause an Awful
Loss of Life.
To the List Of Dead Can Be Added
Eighteen More Victims.
Survivors of n Foundercd Vessels seven
Hours ON the Msst-Meiinda Woods
Crew. the Captain Excepted. swept
Overheard 10y the Cruel Waves.

Overheard 10y the Cruel Waves.
| NV IoRR, Aug. 20.-Pilot stephen
/ Cooper came into harhor Friday morn
ing. having been out through the
storm. He reports that ON Thursday
afternoon. about 5 o'clock. while TWEEN
/ " miles Of sandy Hook. he picked up
n man clinginR 10 the masthead of a
sunken wreck. He proved TO DO
the only survivor OF the schooner
/ Narragansett, Capt Chase, bound
/ from Philadelphia 10 WarehaIn.
Mass, coal laden. which foundercd that
morning during the hurricane. The
crew OF five men were all lost, and the
survivor was for seven hours on the
mast before being picked up He was
taken aboard the pilot boat i'm an eN-
hausted condition. The seaman. when
/ discovered. was dashed 20 the schooner's
masts. which were standing out of the
water. The pilot boat lowered boat
and took him aboard.
His name was Henry Suza. n Portu-
guese. The schooner Narragansett, he
says, went down about a. m, August
-, and Capt Chase and five men were
drowned. Her position was eighteen
miles from Highlands, y. J.
Charles Klctsbergcr, OF the fishing
smack Malinda Wood, which was towcd
in Friday morning. reports that on
Wednesday night while about fourteen
miles out. the vessel was struck by "A
/ hurricane, the vessel driven on her
beam ends, the foremost carried away,
and five Of the crew swept overheard
and drowned. The vessel had a crew
IA nffr.f fV, q a.,
were badly injured. Klctsbcrgcr j.
the only member OF the crew who came
through unscathed.
Those who lost their lives I'm the
storm were; John Vogan. first officer:
John Henderson, able seaman; Arthur
johnson, able seaman. The only per
sons ON board who were saved were
Capt T. A. Peterson, Charles Crisper,
the cook. and Charles Ilastrcd. seaman,
and all three Of them were more or
less injured. Capt Peterson aud Cook
Crisper had 10 have their wounds
dressed at the Chambers street hospital
as soon as the ambulance could carry
them from the dock They were
thrown about the deck during the
hurricane
The Melinda Wood belongs 20 Wal
lace a keeney, OF Fulton Market and
10 Capt Peterson. She was built in
1883, has a tonnage OF tventy-six tons,
Is hfty-seven feet long over all. has six
teen feet beam and Is i've feet deep
Joe kletsburger said 20 re-
porter THE second sea swept
overheard every man except the
captain, who was fortunately
banged mp against a mass OF broken
timbers and tangled ropes forward OF
the deck house The sea. rcccdinQ.
carried back with IL Hastred and
Crispcr the cook The other five men
were never seen again. The waves
that washed them from the tossing
smack into the ocean threw the other
two men aboard again, but left them
almost lifelcss, as Capt Peterson. who
continues the tale OF the Melinda Wood,
will testify
THE poor fellows were nearly
fdlled. said lac Friday morning as he
nurscd his injured limbs. at the time.
however, did not know they had been
saved, for ] saw all my men go over
board when the second sea struck as
First was tangled among the falling
rigging. and then, as the sea washed
Crispcr and llastred back again. was
swept down into the forecastle"
a tuRboat with eight loaded scoyys
went 10 sea early Thursday morning.
and reports losing seven Of her scovs,
each scow containing one man. The
scows have probably driftcd along the
Jersey and Staten Island shores, as
nothing has since been heard from
them