Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-12-14

HIGHLAND LrGHT, Mass, Dec. g.
Samuel j. Evans, who was washed
ashore with the wreckage of the i'll.
fated ship Jason, last night, and resus.
citated by the life saving crew, tells
the following story of the voyage of the
ship:
"We sailed from Calcutta last Febru-
airy with full cargo of jute butts for
Boston. Two days after leaving port
we were nearly dismasted in storm
and had to put into Mauritius for re.
pairs. During the gale our mate was
washed overheard and lost. After leav-
ing the latter port we had fair weather
up to the equator Since November
10th we have encountered easterly gales
with frequent snow squalls. We came
in through South Channel last Monday
and shaped our course for Boston.
Tuesday morning the wind pulled out
TO east southeast, and at 0 a. m. it began
to snow. We had no observation for
two days, but Capt. Mcmillan thought
we were wide off Cape Cod and we
kept or our course. Toward noon, the
weather getting thicker, we took in all
our upper sails and laid the ship along
under three lower topsails and forestay-
sails.
breakers under our lee, and few mo-
ments later saw the land. We shook
out our upper topsails and tried to drive
by the cape, but we had no sea room,
and 7.15, finding that we must soon
strike, the ship was headed for the beach.
The captain had been below examining
his charts. On reaching the deck he
cried: we are lostp The ship struck
with fearful force and we all sprang for
the life boats. Before we could cut the
lashings the spars began to fall and the
vessel to go to pieces. This was too
much for the boys, and they all rushed
for the lee mizzen rigging. Only half
OF them succeeded in gaining footing.
some of them were swept overheard
and were seen no more. / chung dosper-
ately to the rigging for few moments,
when great wave broke my grip and |
went into the bowling sea. | thought
it was my end but the water threw me
here and there for while, when sud-
denly found myself on the sand. Soon
men came and took me to the life saving
station. l am thankful that am saved,
but my poor shipmates are all gone. Ali
of them had life preservers on, and |
don't see why some of them could not
reach the shore as well as /"
Captain Cole of the Capon's Hollow
life.saving station, says everything that
could be done was done to save the un-
fortunate men on board the ship
slow do you account for tho fact
that no bodies have come ashore 7"
ut is very strange, but l think they
must have been carried in the very
strong tide toward the south, and some
of them may be dashed to the spars
which are now alongside of the ship or
tangled with the rigging"
WAS 1t not a pretty bad night, cap
tain Y"
81 do not remember ever to have seen
anything equal TO it in all my expert
ence on the beach,"
WHEN THE JASON WAS SIGHTED.
1t was about o'clock yesterday after
noon when the Jason was sighted off
Cape Cod. 1t was evident that the can.
tain had lost his bearings in the storm,
and, when land was sighted, the vessel
was driving almost directly ashore.
During the entire afternoon the Jason
was endeavoring to weather the point,
but apparently she could not be con-
trolled.
Persons along the shore saw the yes.
sci struggling, and notified the life
saving crews at the Point River and the
Highland Stations. The Parnet Station
crew also turned out, and the three
crews fastened together to the scene of
the wreck.
1t was after o'clock, however, before
the crews were ready to render assist
ance. AT that time pieces of wreckage
were coming ashore. 1t was certain
that the vessel was breaking up.
The hO1U nf man
ashore. The customary efforts to revive
him were applied, and after an hours
work consciousness was revived. Then
the man gave his name as Samuel
Evans. He had been clinging to the
lee rail when the vessel struck and was
washed away before he could reach
place OF safety in the rigging. The
ofhcers had given up all hope and had
ordered the crew to the rigging before
she struck
HOPELESS NIGHT.
The Jason went ashore on the sands
oil Eastman. About 1890 o'clock one of
the masts of the vessel went by the
board. A life line had been shot across
the Jason, but the sailors aboard were
not able to secure it, if they We're indeed
aware of it.
The night was so very dark and
stormy that it was impossible to tell il
any one was alive aboard the Jason, but
1T seemed scarcely probable that she
could live through the night.
The ship now lies wretched sem
blance of the grand ship of yesterday.
Tangled masses OF ropes and broken
spars smashed against her broken sides
In the great breakers that still roll
heavily in over the bars. The wreck of
the Jason will long be remembered on
this coast.
A big bundle of letters, with many
and curious post-marks, lies in the safe
OF Charles Hunt &c Company, at 90
State street. The letters have come from
different parts of the earth, but the
chances are they will never be delivered.
The people TO whom they belong went
down with the ship Jason off Cape Cod
last night. Through these letters it is
probable that the only information as to
who comprised the crew will be OBJ
tanned.
Hunt & Company are the American
representatives of the owners of the
ship. They are A. g. ]. Carmichael of
Greenock; Scotland. They had hopes
that few of the crew might still live
to get on shore, but the chances, by their
latest reports, they say, are doubtful.
The ship has gone to pieces, and the