The evening world., 1894-06-25

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HYATT. WILLIAM. Captain Of the
KEssLER. HENRY. III Eldridge
KEssLER, JOHN, ia Henry street.
KiRCHNER, CHARLES, 1894 Second
KnRscHNER. FREDERICK, 1894 Sec
OK oREELER. OMAN. 1881 Park avenue,
.,KEILER,, JOHN. 2e7 West Thirty
EHisER. FRANK. 1853 stanton street.
MAURER. THOMAS. 4o2 East Eighth
MckENNA. JOHN. 4 Cosnt!es slip. 100
MoELsMEYER. -. 1873 Second ave
MURPHY. WILLIAM.
MAGLE, JOHN. l5S stanton street.
PEINING. OSCAR. First avenue and
oSiNN. HENRY. AZ sackett street,
SrSSzSn' RYAE. Flank. i; lol Columbia street,
'sSSTixn sGfTz, THOMAS. AvenueA. between
sPEcHT. IT, CASPER. S7i East Houston
sTRATHAM. HENRY A.. 4lo West
Forty-sixth street. ,,,.
SCHNECT. J.. go Sixth avenue. Brook
WALL. JAMES. Brooklyn.
WANRfI, GEORGE, l72 Eldridge street.
WOOD. b. L.. l6o East Eighty-sixth
''Vsfi WILLIAMS. DANIEL, IS First avenue.
wEfssEER. MHhE fG'eRh'L %Ri'LIIAM. Fl F q Ess, Elev-
sn9h WELEucK. LUCK JOHN. 6 vanaam street.
At 1 o'clock. an hour after all the other
little ships had prudent&ly & turned "a towards wards
sion parties. the James ID: Nicol cap
sized In the heavy seas and went down.
leaving. seventy-fve TO eighty-nVe men
and boys struggling for their lives In the
water, with no help nearer than half a
For two hours the wind had been fresh
ening, and at noon the southeastern
breeze had increased to squally wind,
the skies were overcast with threatening
clouds and heavy seas were rising
angrily about the little craft.
The skipper Only Laughed.
Other tugs carrying similar fishing par;
ties had prudently turned homcward and
the manager Of the Herring Cimp p, Party
and put into the Horseshoe, just to the
north, for shelter. But the young skip-
per had laughed ,derisiyely. although
promising to do as directed.
Everybody on board was more or less
seasick, and the skipper seemed to look
upon this as a capital Joke The Nicol
was constantly getting into the trough;
and big seas engufed her again and
again, drenching the fishermen and
making them more miserable.
The tug was off Long Branch at 10
o'clock; The wind had freshenea sais ed, to ,na a
Elcol was pitching and rolling so badly
that Manager Kirchner suggested that
II would be prudent to turn into
1t was two hours later when, after
angry words from the thoroughly eX;
asperated manager and frightened
fishermen, Capt. Hyatt turned and at
tempted to go around Sandy Hook Into
the HorseshOe
But the tug seemed to be constantly
in the trough of the sea- and as she
empty beer kegs, cakes OF ice and other
movable things rolled about In general
confusion. according to the accounts OF
the rescued passengers.
swamped and Enguifed.
The Nicol bad reached a point, be
tween Scotland Lighship and the High
land Light. about two miles off shore.
A big wave washed over her, flooding
he engine-room and putting out the fire.
snsnssss sss JSsn sanser rarrf ae pua aoGh
whistle lever fIil head just as a second
sea engulfed the little craft.
The FIRST sea had started panic
that % an ~, EXPLOSION was imminent, and
second sea swamped the Nicol. She
keeled over to port and settled very
Engineer Farrell seemed to be the only
man on board who kept his head. seis
ing an axe he cut the fasteninSs OF th'
small boat the life raft and other thing:
that would 6oat. yelling:
self"
It was not more than minute be
fore the shrieking steam whistle wa'
stined by the waves, and the Nicol ha'
sunk out OF sight in the ocean. But th'
long. shrill scream of the whistle hat
the Clyde steamship Algonquin., whici
had passed the Nicol q little while pre-
viously and was half mile ahead oi
her way to New York from savannah.
Other Craft 10 the Rescue.
The tugs VIM, f. Fletcher, Jas. $. T
stranahan. Wallace p. Flint. Gove5nor OF
my and the big railway tug Robert II
eayre, all out with excursion parties
turned back to the rescue.
There were eighty or more men des
perately struggling for their lives in tn
sea where the Nicol had gone down
Several had been carried under, nevs
to rise asnin, by the suction when tn
The Sayre was first to reach the seen
Of dirnster. She was already loaded
her full capacity, but Capt. Slattery an
his men did yeoman service, rescnin
thirty -four men from watery graves an
Bringing them to the city. a,
First Ofiicer Evans put out from n
Algonquin In life boat with crew
aix men and succeeded in saving nil
men, placing them on the algonquin.
The tug Sammy rescued SIX men. II
Guiding Charles Kirshner. the manage
OF the excursion for the Herring Nu
The Fletcher, the Stranahan and II
other rescuing tugs saved several othej
from the sea, but six men were del
when taken from the water ana man
others undoubtedly lost their lives In II
Charles Kirshner says about the di
.sThe Herring Fishing Club is con
posed Of seven men: My nrothers, w
William and Fred 1--WE all i've at IA
Second avenue); Charlie Lberharn,
First avenue and Eighty-nrst stree
who is the President; John HOFFMAN
S45 East Seventy-eighth street osc,
Fleming, OF First avenue and Forty-hr
street, and Edward Cabe, or ia Eldrdi
street.
How Many Were on Board?
s-rhis was our tenth annual excursit
TO the Fishing Banks. We sell TICK,
10 all who buy them at 81 each.
started from the pier at East FIJI
street at o'clock, and ] took up siAt
three tickets there. We stopped at pi
8 North River and took on q few Other
don't know how many. There was
breeze then. But when We got outsl
the wind had freshened. TIL at 10 o clo
Il was d!sagreeable. Everybody W
getting seasick.
We were going full head towar
the Horseshoe when We founderel.
was on the port side with most Of