The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-08-25
ELEVEN MORE LIVES
Incoming Vessels Bring
Further Details of the
Storms Work.
FEARS FOR PILOT BOATS
Thrifty South Jerseymen Take
Wreckage for Winter Fuel.

NEW YORK, August 25. 1s93.-News of
the loss of life in Wednesday nights
terrible storms is still coming in.
Pilot Stephen Cooper. of the pilot boat
Thomas D. Harrison, reports that ut 5
P. NJ. yesterday. twenty miles of the
Highlands. he picked up man cliuging
to the masthead of a sunken wreck.
The man proved to bs the o5ly survi-
vor Of the schooner Narragansett. Cap
tain Chase. bound from Philadelphia for
Wareham. Mass. coal laden. wnich
foundered yesterday morning during the
hurricane.
The survivor was for seven hours
lashed to the mast before being picked
up.
He was taken aboard the pilot boat In
an exhaus ted condition, and on the ar
rival of the Harrison at Staten Island
this morning he WAS landed aud pro-
ceeded 10 this City.
The seaman's name is Henry Suzi, a
| Portuguese. The Narragansett. SuZs saws.
| went dowu about nine A. NJ. aud Caot
/ Chase and five men were drowned Her
| position was eighteen miles south, sonth-
east from Highlands, where she fouad-
! cred
The Nsrragansett was tnres masted
! schooner built in 1874 AZ Wilmington,
aud was 239 tons net. She was owned by
| A. ID. Warner
THE MALISDA WOOD IN PORT.
shortly after seven O'Clock A. NJ. the
| fishing smack Malinda Wood slowly crspG
| up TO ner pier in front OF Fulton Marker.
| Crept is the only word that eau pruperly
| be used for the vessel was in a pitiuble
| condition. The sails had been rent into
| shreds, one of the Tnasts had been car
ried away. the rigging was a confused
mass, and from the remaining mRsthea
| a flag of distress futtered.
| 1t was a wonderful story that the crew
had to tell. Charles Klebsbeuger said to
! q reDorLer:-
"fhe second sea swept overheard evsry
| man except the captain who was fostu-
nately banged up against q mass of
broken timoers and angIsd ropes. for
| ward of the deckhouse. The sea, reced-
! lug, carried back with it Hastred and
/ Crisper. the cook"
The other five men were never seen
| again. The waves that washed them
from the tossing smack into the ocean
threw the other two men aboard again,
| but left them almost iifeleSs, as Captain
| Peterson, VINO continues the tale OF the
| Melinda Wood, will testify:
The poor fellows were nearly killed %
said he this morning, as he nursed mis-
injured limbs. ''At the time, however,
| uIu AOt AHOW buo4 lHu De6Q SRFeQ. Tor
saw all my men go overheard when the
second big sea struck US. First / was
tangled up among the fallen rigging and
| then as the sea washed ed-Grisper- aud
| Hastred back again l was swept down
into the forcastle''
Captain Peterson aud Cook Crisper had
to have their wounds dressed at the
Chambers Street Hospital as soon as the
ambulance GULL carry them from the
deck.
ESCAPED WITHOUT INJURY.
Another of the fishing feet which got
| In this morning was. the Edwiu H. Red
| mond, which was also believed to have
lost. Instead, however, she scarcely lost
anything. One of the storm anchors.
which had been thrown out when the
gale began TO blow, was lost, but other
wise little OF any damage was sustained.
| Considerable anxiety is manifested as
to The probable fate of the pilot boats
out. While some of them are not due
for several days yet. the knowledge that
they were 800 or 400 miles out, right In
the track of the storm. leads many to
/ fear that some of them have foundered
None Of them, of course, has been heard
from.
| The NeN York Pilot Boat Company
had fifteen OF its total of twenty out in
service.
The New Jersey Pilot Boat Company
had six OF its eight boats out along the
Atlantic and New England coasts Those
that experienced tine worst of the storm
were the Thomas S. Wegus, Elbridge It .
| Gerry and Thomas d. Harrison, that
| Were in service along the New England
| coagt