The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-12-17
PERILS OF THE WINTER SEA.
TIE SCHOONER ANNIE BENTLEY Losr
WIN HER CREW or FIVE
TIL. Crew or,h. sehoo-.- Mary Ly-s.-..-

The Crew or the Schooner Mary Ly-surrss
Undoubtedly Los,-Terribie Trip ~ ths
seboourr Catherine - Seventeen Bodies
Have Bees Recovered from the ship Jssor
NEW LONDON. Dec. 10.-A terrific southwest
gale passed over this harbor TO- night and rain
IL falling In torrenta when the storm struck
anumber OF vessels were trying TO get in here.
1t IL feared that some Of them have been
driven ashore
The sloop Sea Serpent, from Norwaik. had her
stern torn OF In trying to enter one OF the
slips In the storm. and the barge George
Hughes, at Allyn's Point. sprung q leak. Few
eral vessels anchored at the mouth OF the bar-
| Dor were driven some distance up the stream
by the violence Of the winds
1t was reported at the Custom House to-day
thatthe schooner Abbie X. Bentley, we'll known
| IN this port. is lost. She sailed from st. John.
| n. b.. on Nov. 20. with q cargo OF lumber for
| this port, and has not been reported since IL
Is feared that she encountered a storm and
| foundered. Tho vessel was an old one. and has
been coming to this port for a n Der OF years.
She was owned in Providence. There were
five men on board.
BANGOR Me-, Dec. 18-The schooner Mary
Lymburner. which was found bottom up near
EdRartown. Mass, on Thursday, was one Of
the best vessels sailing out OF Bangor
Capt Ficketts wife 10 critically Ill at their
home here, and the news has not been com
municated to her. The family had supposed
that the vessel was discharRng In New York.
where she was to haul up for the season, and
expected the Captain homo before Christmas.
where we're Tour men on the yessel-.Capt.
Malcolm aud Irving Flcsett OF Milbridee and
an unknown sailor. AZ nothing has been
tns@ tap PIS IL
best known and ablest mariners sailing from |
TTangor The cargo OF lumber was Insured. |
Cs,herins Capt. Duffy. rom New YORK GRRoy %ss
mails flying. She was boarded BY the Chatham
i iiie-sayinE crew. and with the Assistance OF |
y The schooner had been fifteen days from
New York to Cape Cod The stores had given
GAIT py tss % the the face
w los New YORK as f for iBos,on with . cargo
third day we put into Now Gondon for sSe,se
from tho gale. and we narrowly escaped being
soon after issvipe New London I was
time l have been unable to get on deck This
and 70 snatch their food as best they could.
Obliged to T fss a Go%n ' All fh saS
course. had to be done by one man, as The
were fast becoming exhausted. 1 thought
many = ,,.r times that We would lose the schooner
They were good ,snd brave sailors. and
stuck to their posts like heroes. and by pluck
got her down as far as Nantucket Shoais.
where; for the first time on the voyage. We had
FAY asy, evening. and thS thought OF reaching
But the win. / soon hauled in west.
,orthwsst. and We knew ~ g. held
light fonnd US on Nauset, where We struet a
errlnc gale from the northwest. and were
arsed lack under Chatham for anchorage .
lost some sails but were not badly Grip !
Next morning found us under way aRnin. :
mi We sueceeded 10 getting IN into Boston
NV. Here the wind shifted to northwest and
, y a gale: huge seas swept oyer the vessel.
ng IN soitd mass on the forward deck,
Iiter being buffeted about in this gale for | =
wenty-lour hours the vessel was again driven
s aek S Hn9er chatham As tn" gale liberated We
1g station and hoisted distress signals. The
rev was thoroughly exhausted. and for the a
rst time Informed me that the stock OF pro- j
, ny;bn nnd run out They had eaten scarcely
1t almost tmm edatey commenced snow. II
Y, AMI continued aii the forenoon. A the
ind was hauling into the eastward felt that n
len to get sail on her II they could possIbly q
I'M mon up the strength to do IL. They were G
ruegnni with the calls when heard a It
ieeTiul Hello on the starboard quarter. ii :,
as Capt; Doane OF the Chatham life saving u
alton. who had seen our signals and come on W
help us. Capt. Doane took charge and n,
orked tho schooner into Chatham Ray and u.
ION 1 after ne Hight Arm came along and OIL
HI9uIhSD LIGHT. Mass. Dec. 1l-Seyen an
en- bodies have thus far been recovered from AZ
o wreck OF the Jason, The work OF recover ~
z material and cargo from the wreck will is