The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-02

wrecked on one OF the islands he was eX-
cited and anxious as could be up
to the time that he met them
as they came from Hunting Is
land to board the Paulsen He went
down with the tug day before yesterday
morning in order to do whatever he could
towards rescuing them. He remained on
the tug, however, until they were brought
aboard, as all the room possible was
wanted in the boat which went over to
bring them. The meeting was happy
one when the party came aboard the tug.
REALIZED THEIR DANGER.
"Our experience all the way was about
as terrible as anything could be-" said
DR.. Lamar. ''We realized the danger
from the start, and when every
body began to rush from the staterooms
to the saloon and there was a general rush
for life preservers just as the ship struck,
we were told to keep quiet and obey or
ders. Everybody did so without mur-
mur, knowing that their safety and per-
haps their lives depended on it. We re-
mained in the social hall with life preserv-
ers about us after the ship struck, not
knowing what was going to happen next.
As soon as the cabin had been blown
away all the passengers were taken to
the forward saloon, and remained there
waiting for what might befall them until
that too was carried away, and then they
went to the forecastle. They all remained
here until Monday night.
LAsHED IN THE RIGGING.
"When the ladies were ordered into the
lifeboat which was suspended from the
port side of the vessel, Mrs Lamar gave
her two children to the nurse and went
up into the rigging, as she preferred that
TO the boat. lashed her there and went up
myself We remained all the night until
about 80 Tuesday morning, when the tide
changed and we came down Part of the
time that we were in the rigging we both
slept. never knew before that I could
go to sleep in the rigging of a vessel and
under such circumstances, but we were
both so fatigued that we could not keep
awake.
SIGNALS BURNED ALL NIGHT.
Signals were burned all night, but no
other vessel that could render assistance
came in sight, or if it did no attention
was paid to the signals.
Between and 5 o'clock the captain
put the first lifeboat out under the com
mand of Second Officer Partelow. This one
went to Coffin Point with the party that
was taken care of at Senator Cameron's s
| place.
About half an hour later the second
lifeboat, under command of First Officer
CrOwell, was sent out, and in this one,
among others, were myself, Mrs Lamar
and the two children. We were all salts
fed that we would reach saore, ard we
were steered direct for Hunting Island
light. We avoided all the shoal places
and reached the island about 9:30 in the
morning. We had no trouble in getting
to shore and the boat did not
ship so much as a teacupful of water.
KEPT BAILING THE BOAT.
"When we reached the shore every
man jumped out and pulled the boat up SO
that the ladies got out without so much
as getting their feet wet. We had two
| holes in the boat when we left the ship
and the men were kept busy the whole
time bailing out the water. There were
in our party, besides several of the crew,
Mrs. Barrow, Mrs. Wade, Mrs. Lamar
and the two babies, myself and Mrs
Cooper
THE BABIES ALL RIGHT.
''The babies were about as well taken
care of as they could be- They didn't
realize the danger and were laughing all
the time as if it were a big joke. We
can't thank enough the sailors andt he pas
sengers who did everything in their
power for the comfort Of the children,
giving them as they did the best of every
thing they had The sailors said the
children first, the ladies next, and the
men could take care of themselves.
''When we got to the island we had a
hard time getting up to the light house,
which was nearly mile away. The
island had been submerged during the
storm, and we had all we could do to find
our way about In some places we had to
wade through water up to our waists and
had to take the ladies on our backs.
IN THE LIGHT HOUSE.
"Ihe light house is in charge of keeper
F. w Kanehl and he did everything in
his power to take care of the people who
landed there. His wife cooked for all Of
us, and they divided all they had equally
as long as it lasted. She gave us the best
She had, but had to be sparing. We got
along very well, but if we had not gotten
off this morning we would have had moth
ing left to eat to-day.
Il could not believe at any time that
we would be lost, but felt that we were
in a precarious condition. Three men
went in search of aid Monday morning.
They also reached the lighthouse.
IN SEARCH OF HELP.
''The two assistant lightkeepers went
across 10 Coffin Point, at their request,
Monday afternoon, and worked until
o'clock the next day trying to get sail
boat ready to go to Beaufort, which they
did and sent a tug out to the wreck. The
tug went out and saw the wreck.
laid around it some distance for
hort while then steamed back and re-
ported that all the passengers had left.
We knew, however, that they were still
there.
''We sighted tug yesterday morning
about 4:30 o'clock, from the lghthous
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