Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-12-07
The 'JaSon" Wrecked on the Rocks
Off PrOVinCetOWn.
ONLY A BOY LEFT TO TELL OF 1T.
Twenty-Four Sailors Of Her Grew
of Twenty-Five Go Down Into
the Raging Billows-The Ves-
sci Broke in Two and Went
Down in Sight Of the Life
Saving Crew-The Story Of the
Only Survivor.

PR0VINCETOWN, MASS, DeCemoeI O'
The hardy men OF the Pamet River
Life Saving Station did not get out OF
their oil clothes and sea boots for
brief moment all day to-day. blind
ing snow storm on the wings OF an east
southeast gale drove about their little
cabins. The mighty billows, hurled
on by the gale, dashed to the captains
feet and retreated with the roar Of an
avalanche out in the misty storm.
He knew it was day for shipwrecks
and it was his duty to discover any un-
fortunates that lost themselves in the
December gale. Suddenly dark out
line sprang up before him, seaward. 1t
was without form at first, but through
a lull in the storm he saw tossing
ship. Then he saw men in the ships
rigging working, apparently, with the
ships sails or remnants thereof.
SHE WAS STRUGGLING HARD.
"There's ship out there, boys, and
she's in bad way. Her sails are in
ribbons. She's trying to beat off, but l
guess it's all up with her."
Every man stood up aud looked at
their comrade. They knew what it
was to be on lea shore in gale like
| that. 1t meant destruction TO the ship,
death to her sailors. No ship could
! live there.
Now and then they heard cry
| borne on the teeth OF the gale from the
sea. 1t might have been the despairing
wall Of a dozen seamen or only the
shrek of frightened bird, still they
waited. And then as the midnight
hour approached broken spar was
hurled at their feet. Then another and
another splintered fragment came
ashore. 1t was as they feared. The
ship mad given up her gallant fight for
life. She had fought a noble battle
with the elements and the elements had
conquered.
Then spintered spar with the rem
nants Of a sail dripping with the spray
rolled up the beach. They rushed to IL
and caught it as the undertow almost
snatched it from their grasp. Aud
there, clinglng to the fragments OF the
ice covered cloth, they saw a boy.
Surfman Hopkins saw him first.
He dashed into the sea and seized him,
and the rest Of the men hurried him up
into the shelter of the apparatus. They
worked over the boy for half an hour
and then be opened his eyes and
spoke. He told simple story.
THE BRITISH SHIP JASON
was a CHASTITY wreck Why he was not
lost, too, was the surprise of all sur
prises. He only knew that he was In
the rigging with what remained OF the
% men who manned the ship after she
struck. Then the spars came crashing
down and the men went with them into
the water. He knew no more until he
found himself in the life savers hut.
The men wrapped him in warm
blankets and put him in 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 looked for more clinging unfortu-
mates. When the first gray streaks OF
dawn appeared the life savers brought
their powerful glasses to bear
upon the remnants of the wreck. They
were looking for men clinging to the
battered hull. Not a human body was
visible. Like the good ship Jason, they
had given up the struggle in the surf of
Cape Cod. TwentY-four souls had found
their graves on those icy shoals, and
the hos spitable ship in which they made
their home across the wide expanse OF
the Indian and Atlantic oceans
WAS NOW THEIR TOMB.
It was while he was lying weak and
helpless upon the life savers cot that
the boy who gave his name as Samuel
! Evans, and his age as 10, and his home
in Greenock, Scotland, told his story to
a reporter of the Associated Press this
afternoon. He spoke clearly and con.
nectedly. He said:
1.-THE ship Jason, Captain Mcmillan,
sailed from Calcutta in February last
for Boston with cargo ofjute. W hen
but few days out we encountered a
terrible cyclone and lost our masts and
also our first officer, Mr.. Walker.
"We put in at the Isle of France and
repaired We had fine weather alter
leaving there. nearly the entire passage.
| On Tuesday morning il beganIto snow,
the wind strong from east southeast.
It was very thick. We could not see
more than three ship lengths where we
were. We were running under
our three lower top sails. 1t
cleared up and we met the breakers off
| the bow. We could not tack ship, and
! there was not room TO wear, so we
| hauled close with all the sail the spars
would stand in hopes to crowd her by
the cape. A heavy sea was setting
! in shore and we made much
sea wind. The gale increased
| and night came on. Still hoping to
weather the Cape, we continued TO
crowd on sail, but at 7:15 she struck
the beach with crash and main and
mizzen masts went over the side and
the ship broke in Two amidship. About
| all of the crew including myself went
into the mizzen rigging when
we struck When the mast went
WE ALL WENT WITH IT.
knew no more until found myself
in the sails and being pulled out OF the
surf. OF all my shjpmates not one is
/ left. OF their names l know but
few. They were mostly Irish
and Norwegians. The captains
name was Mcmillan and the
mates name was Walker. Both
1 believe, beong in Greenock. The
second mate, Galbraith, and Boatswain
Black were from Selkirk. There were
John Callahan, Mike Mnlligan, Wm.
Cotter, Of Queenstown; Clesry and Rose,