The evening world., 1893-11-29
THEY Are RESCUED.
The Schooner Randall's Survivors
Taken Off by the Merritt.
lashed in the Rigging Over
Tw~enty-six Hours.
A Night OF Terror with Lifc-Savors
Near but Helpless.

The surviving members of the crew Of
the schooner Louise II. Randall, ashore
on the outer bar off Bellport, l.. l., were
rescued by the wrecking steamer |. ].
Merritt early this morning. The strand
ed schooner is breaking zip and pieces of
the wreck are washing ashore.
The !. J. Merritt passed Fire Island AT
20 A. NJ. on her way to the city with the
survivors on board. 1t is supposed that
ten men and one woman were rescued.
The Merritt arrived off Bellport at 9
O'Clock last night, but owing to the
heavy wind and soa was unable to ga;
near the stranded vessel until close on
to daylight this morning, when the wind
went down and the sea was not SO
rough.
The crew, including the woman sup
posed to be the wife of Capt. William
NJ. Randall. were dashed in the rigging
from 4 o'clock yesterday morning until
$50 this morning. They had suffered
greatly from exposure and hunger.
Patrolman Harry Corwin, of the Life
Saving Station at Smiths Point, Grea,
South Bay, on coming west on his sun
rise patrol at daybreak yesterday morn
ing, saw a four-masted schooner, stern
down, in four fathoms of water, about
a quarter of a mile off shore.
Only a small portion Of her forward
bulwarks was above water. Ten per
sons were in the rigging. One woman
and three men were in the forerigging,
fA,,, ,,L 90. ,l- ~ 4.
the main shrouds and one at the main
mast head.
Word was Immediately ~telephoned to
all the stations along the line. The life
saving crews from Fargo Station, Smiths
Point and Bellport FASTENED to the beach
at a point opposite where the wrecked
vessel lay.
The breakers were solid, and dashed
like fury on the beach. 1t was iuipossi-
Die to launch a lifeboat. The life-saving
though they We're well aimed. the lines
either burned or fell short. The attempts
to send them across the rigging OF the
trials were continued until every cart
ridge had been used.
Capt. Frank Rourke arrived on the
scene in the afternoon with two rockets.
but these were just as Intellectual as
the other shots. The wind was blowing
from the west. and although the rockets
were tlred across tn" wind, the lines
We're blown wide or the WRECK.
Mrs. Samuel Newcy, the wife of a
l~ife-sHving patrolman. picked up a bun,
die of letters which had been washed
ashore during the forenoon. They were
all dated about twelve months ago ana
were addressed to Capt. ". II. Randall,
schooner Louise H.. Randall, Portsmouth,
Boston and New York.
Many of these We're of IA purely bust
ness character, and were from O. r.
Jennings, is Park avenue, New York,
who was evidently IA part owner In the
schooner. From these letters the iden'
tity of the schooner was learned.
Two portions OF an a and Il mahog-
any bedroom suit We're washed ashore,
which evidently came from the. deck
cabins of the Inflated vessel. Among
tho driftwood were a number of broken
piano frames, tops II ivory Eeyboards.
and the men on shore think the schooner
might nave been laden with partly com
pleted pianos.
were all at the fore and mainmast head.
All sorts of rumOrs were heard along the
beach. Some people said they saw two
the morning, but a heavy sea struck
then and they disappeared. =.
From the size or the vessel the life
savers thought there may have been
twelve or fourteen men on BOARD ana
that some of them We're lost.
1t was also said that "A boy was>Seen
with the men at the foremost head,
but If such was the case there was no
SlEl u nm 'AA'i i''e ~ - $3.50
Word was sent to this city for Inc
Merritt wrccking steamer, and the l.
j. Merritt was sent to the rescue;
The wind was piercinSly cold last
night, and there was fear that some of
those in the rigging would succumb "a
hunger and exposure before morning.
The breakers were dashing, over the
wreck when night set in, and the peD-
ple in the rigging were drench"l When
daylight faded the wreck vs. scarcely
discernible,, and darkness. ing on
swiftly. hid the unfortunate i!rS who
clung tenaciously to the srtta iram the
view of those on shore, VINO were Will
ing but helpless TO render them any
assistance.
n gale from the northwest. The life
savers on the beach were running about
to keep themselves warm. The sea was
running high and the breaker were AS
It was Impossible to do anything to-
WI rds effecting "A rescue before morning,
The Merritt was lying nca the
stranded schooner ready to render any
O. r. Jennings, to whom the letters
washed ashore We're addressed, Is. "A law
yer at IS Park avenue, hs Said T. IS
who died IA year ago, The family had a
share in the f~our-masted schooner Louise
II. Randall, that was named, after the
lie thought the woman ON board was
probably Mrs. Randall, who generally
made trips with her husband,
The Louise II, Randall belongs to
Newport, r. !, She left Philadelphia on
Nov. % for Boston, She was carrying, it
was stated, "A cargo Of coal. She reg
lsterel l,JO2 gross tons.
She was "A comparatively new boat,
having been built In Boston about a year
ago. She measured 1871 tect ever all, Al
Zee, beam and 2l feet from deck to keel
son.
TEN FREIGHT CARS WRECKED.