The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-12-07
ONLY ONE SURVIVOR.
Wreck Of the Ship Jason Off Mas
alchusetts' Coast.
TWENTY FOUR OF THE GREW LOST.

Tho Survivor "a BOY Of Nineteen. Who
Was Unconscious When Picked Up by
the Life savers Tho Vessel and Cargo
n Total Loss.
PgoyINCErowS Mass, Dec 7. = The
Brit sh ship Jason, Captain Mcmillan,
Calcutta for Boston, went ashore Tues
day night Off Eastman, and was broken
to pieces in The terrific gale. OF the crew
of twenty-five only one boy escaped, he
being washed ashore with splintered
spar. to which clung the remnants OF a
snil The life savers, who had been watch
ing for signs from the wreck all night.
seized the now unconscious boy and hnr-
ried him to ne little shanty which housed
the crew. They worked over him for half
an hour, and then he opened his eyes
slowly and spoke. lie told this simple
story.
The British ship Jason was a CHASTITY
wreck Why he was not lost too was the
greatest surprise. He only knew thai he
was in the rigging with what remained of
the twenty live men who manned tho shi
after she struck Then the spRrs came
crashing down and the men went with
them, and he was IN the water lie held
on for life and that was all. He knew no
more until he found himself in tho life
savers hut The men wrapped him in
warm blankets and put him into cot.
They doSed him with brandy, aud he slept.
And while he slept the crews OF the life
boats ran up and down the beach and
dashed into the surf after every piece of
wreckage aud hauled it high up Oh the
beach and looked for more clngiuE I'M
forlunates. But no more came.
Then the first gray st"eaks Of dawn ap-
- i'll. q Il
Slowly daylight approached and then, not
two hundred yards from the beach where
the little group hed spent fearful night.
the broken hull of n mighty ship was
seen. The great seas dashed high over
her and whirled about the broken strips
of her spnrs The life savers brought their
powerful glasses to bear upon the REM
nnnts of the wreck. They were looking
for men clinging to the battered hull.
| Every inch of what remained above water
was srrutinxed dozen times by dozen
pairs OF eyes. Hut they all gave it up.
| Not human body was visible. Like the
good ship Jason, they had given up Tbs
struggle in the surf Off Cape Cod. Twenty
! four souls had found their graves on those
icy shoals
And the hospitable ship in which they
| made their home across the wide eNpanse
of the Indian and Atlantic ocean was now
their tomb. In an hour or two us the
men watched, the great hull parted. and
out from the dark interior of her hold
| great bales of jute poured and dotted the
ocean. II came in on top of the still
mountainous seas and washed up en- ths
beach by the side Of the broken spars
II was while he WAS living weak and
helpless upon the life savers cot that the
hoy, who gave his name as Samuel Eynns
his age as 10 and his home az Greenock
Scotland, told his story 10 report er Of tn,
Associat ed Press lie said:
1.-The ship Jason. Captain Mcmillan
sailed from Calcutta in February last 70
Bosl OH with cargo Of jute When but
few days out we encountered Il terrific cy
clone and lost our masts and also our frs
officer. Mr.. Walker. We put in at tn,
Isle of France and repaired. We had flu,
weather after leaving there nearly the en-
tire passage On rucsday morning IL be
gan to SNOW, with the wind strong from
east southeast 1t was very thick, and W
could not see more than three ship length
ahead We run unhrr our three lowe
topsails at p. m, II cleared up n little
and we saw breakers off the port bow W
could not tack ship, SO We hauled close
with all the sail the spars would stand, il
hopes to crowd her by the cape.
me sHlt lllCIfuSttt ms HlEiit tautt Vi
but still hoping to weather the cape W
continued TO crowd on sail. Al T:l5 sh
struck ths beach with II crash, and th
mnin and miZzen masts went over th
side aud the ship broke in two amidshii
About all Of the crew, including mysel
went into the mizzen rigging when "
struck. When the mast went we all wer
with It, | knew no more until foun
myself in the sands and was being pulle
out of the surf.
"Of all my shipmates. not one is lef
OF their names know but few. They We,
mostly Irish and Norwegians. Tho ea
tain's name was Mcmillan, and the mate
name was Walker Both, believe b
longed in Greenock. The second mat
GClbraithe, and Boatswain Black we
from Selkirk There WIS John Ca liza ha
Mike Mulligan and william Cotter,
Queenstown, aud o'Denry and Ross,
Plymouth, England; Chris Neilson AT
Corpe, of Portland. Ore; Murphy, of
John, n. B.; Johnson and Heurickso
Swedes These are all TINT can remer
ber The Jason was a Clyde built shi
l,5l2 tons burden, owned by A. and J.
Carmichael, of Greanock. The cargo w
partially insured in New York"