The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-11-30
ALLSAVEDFROM THE WRECK.
TIE RANDALL'S GREW WEREs7 HOURS
IN THE RIGGING.

wreeking boat Merritt Lay Near tho
Wreck All Night Unnbis TO Re.cuo the
Castawnys - Mrs. Randall Passed the
Night In an Improvised Hammock.
When the giant four-masted coastlng
schooner Louise H. Randall named in honor
Of tho plucky wife OF her gallant skipper.
sailed out OF the Delaware capcs. deep laden
with coal. from Philadelphia for Boston on
Sunday last, tho sea and sky were as serene
ss on o summer day
The wife Of tho skipper was his comrade on
the voyage. as she had been on many other
sea pilgrlmages to remoter PORTS Sho was n
girl in Vineyard Haven while no was boy
there. and tho schooners mate. Thomas
Smith. n grizzled shcllhnck whose rugged Taco
the suns of many latitudos had tanned was a
grown man in the Haven whom the shippers
wife was Louise Dillingham;, brown haired
blue-eyed tot in pinafores
Tho schooner kept all sail on. gliding peace
fully through tho placid sea. with the breeze
over the quarter from south southeast until 3
o'clock on Monday afternoon. The southern
horizon became clouded and the breeze fresh
sned
The outer lib and topsails we're taken In and
the spanker and main and mizzen sails
were reefed. as the falling barometer por-
tended nasty night Second Mate Phillips
was stationed in the foremost head when the
weather grew thick and o binding rain came
outiof the southeast
The big schooner. which IL only q trifle more
than 200 tons smaller than the colossal tlve-
master Governor Ames, made bad weather Of
1t as the gale began ptlng up the seas.
The air was SO thick with rain aud spoon
drift that the skipper had only dim notion
OF his bearings. He had hoped to squeeze by
Montauk Point and work into Vineyard Sound.
He thought that he had made better prog
that was one of the reasons why he came to
r.moin With him ON dali, halo,v falling bor
ieman Wv. nm on uVon' oelo"' ' oi s no.
won't below not desiring to set an example
that might affect the discipline OF tho schoon-
sr's crew; but she didn't 20 to sleep.
Seamen Henry Thiel and John Bialrendund
were at the wheel when three gigantic waves
following one another In quick succession
roared over the vessels s'arGoatd bow. she
GU NOT reeo'or ioi se,erai h'nu'es i,oni ''o
sudden onsiaueht' ana when she did she had a
1000 tons OF coal had shifted Under repeated
pounding OF the seas the list Increased until
at the wheel. hardy foreign merchant tars.
could not keep her steady. The water came
engine room. and the engine room door was
closed.
NJ. O'clock on Tuesday morning when the
foresail was whisked ont OF the bolt ropes md
The men were set to work taxing in the main.
mIzzen and spank or sails. so that the schooner
might, with her head sails. be worked of
shore, toward which thu Skipper was pretty
eertaln he was heinz driven.
there was twenty.tl,ree iathoms of water un-
der him. He decided not to make the effort to
claw on. and prepared to let 20 an anchor
The mate said that the anchor had caught.
Just as he announced that 1t had been dropped
a,,Na Lar nfE ra naa. i'm nnl
port
Within FIVE minutes after her keel was In the
Immense sea. Which smashed her yawI to lin.
ders and carried away all her SIN aller boats.
His wife was 10th to 90. saying she was salts
CAPTAIN tied a rope around her waist and
hauled her up into tho crosstrees Of the fore
The men did not take to the rigging until after
they had cut away the booms OF the lore and
ina tear ths mssts ous Of the vessel
just after all hands had gone up into tho
red light about a third OF a mile away on tho
beach They knew then thata patrolman OF the
s yG by asd tb ssSn as Saa
perilous perch, At dawn they made out the
OF The w shS Grey 81 sn inns
only the skipper's wife was in the crosstrees
9tths t2EsmSs, The men we're Staa4anG on
The iife-saying mon set a little brass cannon
nm ha haach and atts m pt ed 10 ar lS-lnch
proiectiIe over the wreck The line parted and
the proieetiie fell on the deck OF the schooner
Ten or Twelve shots were fired and ali either
fell short or parted from the lines and whist!ed
over the masts Of the WrecK Othsr shots wore
frsd the sEIpner says hut only two OF tLsm
with lines attached went across the wreck
tina weight OF the shot and nossibly tho in
ferior 6unlity of the rope caused tine lines 10
mart when they fell on me stays
The skipper and mis- men became disheart-
ane1 when the sun went down and tile life
savers on shore ceased their efforts after
thirty unsucoessiul shots to gel a line to the
wreck. The skipper said TO the mate that tho
igRermast Was sway ing and might fall at any
moment carrying with IL the mizzen main
and fore masts. All hands were somewhat en-
eouraYed when darkne set In by the glare Of
two great boniires, built from the wreckags Of
their own unlucky craft. blazing mile apart
on the shore
At q O'clock their hearts were set founding
by the appearance mile to seward OF the
WreckiDg steamer l. j. Merritt They could
hear the booming of the surf. which was run
n ing hfteen feet HIGH and they gave IN
hope Of getting sueeor from lilsboats
from the beach: but they thought that
they had a chance OF salvation by means
OF a boat that might be launched from
the steamer which was plunginR IN thetuli
seas with all her ports aglare. They presently