Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1893-03-06
AFLOAT OK THE ICE.
A Sailors Thrilling Experience In
the Chesapeake.

the CncsaPcAko.
We gave a brief local In Saturday s
CAPITAL of the sinking of the schooner
"Wishton- Wish" in the Chesapeake bay
on Friday night and the drowning of the
Captain. and the rescuIng OF G. r. Akin
son, one of the crew, from Zoe of ice
after terrible experience Of i've hours.
by captain Collins of the tug boat Sid
ney, and brought TO this city on Saturday
morning. The Baltimore Fun of this
morning gives the following thrilling ex-
perience of the rescued man
We left Baltimore on Friday, said
he. with q cargo OF fertilizer loaded at
the DERRICK Fertilizer Works, In the
Spring Gardens II was consigned to
Beck & Walker, Chestertown At quar-
ter before O'Clock Friday morning we
struck ice with great force and the vessel
brought up standing We were then
about five miles from Love Point. The
Captain and |. the only persons aboard.
ran forward. but could see no damage.
even got on the ice to make an exami
nation. Both then went on board and
Captain Hill lay down for rest aud
kept the lookout. Within half an hour
! noticed that the vessel began TO leak
into the cabin. | called TO Captain Hill
who came on deck half dressed The
Wishton- Wish began to sink and We i'm
mediatelY tried to clear the falls OF the
boat which was on the stern The falls
| had frozen so hard that we could not
loose them with our hands. / asked for
knife, but before Captain Hill could
get his out ths boat began to 20 down by
the head.
Seeing no chance for escape but to
make for the ice jumped overheard and
swan TO il, as 1t was driven some dis.
lance of by the water surging about the
sinking vessel. Captain Hill followed
me. AS the vessel went down two oars
and some litter about the deck fioated of
ard secured one of the oars and Cap.
tain Hill the other. BY this help reach.
ed the main BODY of Ice. As forced my
way along IL broke beneath me for sew
eral yards Captain Hill gave up fol-
lowing me, as the struggling with the
| broken ice seemed to wear him out
When got on The stronger ice / lost my
| oar. j lay down fiat on my abdomen
and begged him to try and reach the foe
| was on. BY luck recovered the oar
/ had lost aud reached it toward him and
| begged him to catch IL so that / could
pull him to me. In his effort TO do so
the cake which he had taken refuge broke
into pieces and he said goodbye and
sank into the water
81 remained on the ice-fioe and kept
up my courage as best / could, hoping
that when daylight came would be seen
and rescued cried out often and at
last the lights of q tugboat came in view,
and hearing my call came to my rescue.
Captain Collins says 1t was II minutes
of o'clock. The tug Sidney had hard
battle with the ice after my rescue. We
returned to where / thought the Wishton-
" ish had sunk, but we could see no sign
OF her .
Mr.. Atkinson says Captain Bill had in
his pockets about $3.50 A reward will
be paid for the recovery of the body.
Captain Hill came from Media, Pa.
where his father lives. Mr.. Atkinson
notified the latter of the loss of his son
The captain leaves widow, who at
present is visiting her mother In Will
mington, Del Dir. Atkinson will leave
for Chestertown to-day.