Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-12-07
POW[RLESS TO HELP.
Ship JaS0n'S Crew Gould
Not Be Rescued.
OVER A SCORE DROWNED.
A Lad of Nineteen Was Washed Ashore
on Piece Of Wreckage.

PRovINcETowN. Mass, Dec 7-The
wind whistled and whined and the lone
patrolman of the Pamet life-saving sta
ton turned his back To the shrieking blast
that penetrated to his very heart.
Now and then he braced himself for a
gaze to windward and shielded his eyes
from the piercing darts of the storm. Sud
denly a dark outline ,prang up before him
seaward. IL W without orm at first, but
the binding snowstorm for moment
held up, and through the lull he saw a
tossing ship.
Then he saw men in the ships rigging
working apparently with the ragged rem
nants OF the sails, aud after that other
sails were loos.d. She wns struggling TO
dive into that gale aud save herself from
destruction.
She was near, dangerously, thos. sand
hills. She 'ught To have been miles fur
th-r To windward But, t,worse than all, the
shivering patroman saw her sails in tat.
ters. He knsw what that m ant. Hours
II hard, wearing beating of a | e shor-
had been too much for even her toug h
canvas. IL had at last succumbrd.
He quickly started for the life-saving
cabin and mr. use his comrades. They
started down the beach. They strained
their very bodies in tine tempt to pierce
the gathering gloom, hut it was usele~-
tffort. S they titled down al shivered
n he swfully frigld ar AT tue poinr from
which the ship was last seen. Aud nigh,
settled down thus.
A Dreary Vigil.
As midnight hour app cached broken
4 A.
( e. zing group. Then another and another
splintered fragment came in on the su"wy
crests Of mighty bilows aud the men
Looked at each other in silence.
1t was ss trey feared. The ship had
given up her gallant f2ht for life. The
men held hurried consultation. 1t was
useless TO think # lauuching a boat in
that wild storm. Death awaited the crew
who dared to challenge.
Then the ifeboat crews from Highland
light and Cahoon's Hollow came rush ny
down the beach. They had heard a ship
had gone ashore and thy had come with
their lives in their HANDS to throw them
away IL necessary in the effort to save the
sbipwrecked crew.
They sent II mpn in each direction TO
wal ch for boats that mig ht c. me ashore
flashlights in the hope that they might be
seen.
Then a splintered spar with the rem
nants Of sail dripping with the spray
roll,d up the beach. aud there, clinging to
the fragments Of the ice-covere1 cloth,
they saw boy.
rrought to Life.
His eyes were closed, and they thought
him dead, but two or three of the party
seized him in their arms aud ran for the
little shanty which housed the lifeboat
crew. The worked over the boy for half an
hour, and then he opened his eyes
The men wrapped him in warm blap kets
and put him into a cot. Tney dosed him
wit h brandy aud he slept, aud while he
slept the crew OF the lifeboats ran up and
down the b ach and dashed into the surf
after every piece of wreckage and hauled
II hi b up on the beach and looked for
more clinging unfortunates, but no more
came.
Then the first gray streaks of dawn ap-
peared, and with them the storm abated
Slowly daylight appeared, and there, not
200 yards from the beach where the little
group had spent a fearful night, the
broken hull of a mighty ship was seen.
Every inch of what remained above
water WAS scruiin zed a doz-n times by a
dozen pairs IT eyes. But not a human
body was Wis BILE Like the good ship
Jason. they had given up the struggle in
he surf of Cape Cod. 1wenty-iour souls
had found their graves In those icy shoals,
and the hospitable ship which had been
their home was now their tomb.
story Of the survivor
The m sa, ell WAS Samuel Evans He
said: "Our vessel is tue British ship
Jason, Captain Mcmillan, from Calcutta
for Boston, with cargo of jute. We made
the land off Cape Cod at 3 o'clock this af-
ternoon during binding snowstorm, but
when we saw it We were so near we could
not weather the point, and were lost.
While clinging TO the lee rail after the
ship had struck, n great sea swept me
overheard with full ~ # my C mrates. ]
never saw any OF them again. How
reached the shore God only know; but
knew II once could gain the beach some
one would be- there to help me- The Off
GERS were Captain Mcmillan. First Maze
Walker. Second Mate Ga braIth and
Boatswain Black"
Evans is 10 years old, and belongs in
Green, ok, Scot.
The present is not the first misfortune
- the Jason on her voyage. She left Cal
cutts On Feb. Il, uu3 for 30 ton, but
VAS ged to put in'o Naurtius IN dis
tress. Here she discharged a portion Of
her cargo, proceeding To Boston OIL Sept.
H. The original cargo was 10000 bales of
jute, consigned to the Ludlow Manufac-
turing company Of Boston. One thousand
bales were uischs ged at Mauritius, max
ing he mum ber ! 900 The cargo was
fully in.u,ed The snip was consigned to
Charles Hu I & Go. of B son.