The Portland daily press., 1894-10-11

without being swamped. They did. how
ever, and with some. help from the shore,
got safely onto land. Those rescued were
Captain Mcmillan, Mate Rhude and Seamen
William D. Griffin and William D. Nc
Millin.
just at dark representative of the
FRESS visited the scene of this wreck. The
shipwrecked sailors, with the life savers,
were gathered in a little knot on the shore,
watching the schooner, which the tide and
waves We re driving farther onto the beach.
She was lying bow on, with foresail set and
mainsaiI hanging in the water. She was
In such a position as to give promise that
she might be saved.
For the Rosie and Adra, there was
though to be no hope, Captain Trundy ex-
pressing the opinion that she would break
up.
The little schooner D. K Ham, Fred H.
Sellers OF Penobscot, master, set sail from
Provincetown Monday morning for Bangor.
She was light. not having even ballast
aboard. She carried crew of two men,
James Perry of 0rland, Maine. and Melvin
Grant or Sandy Point, Maine She had also
two passengers, Frank Grader, an
apothecary of Lynn, and John c. Hickey,
of pugilist and held the lightweight ham,
pfonship over a considerable territory.
Hickey is well known in this town having
some years ago given an exhibition of the
manly art at South Portland. With Mr..
Grader. he took passage ON board the D.
h. Ham to get little sea air. He insists
now in language that convinces his hearers
that he is in dead earnest that land air will
be good enough for him hereafter. The
voyage of the Ham was uneventfuI until
about O'Clock yesterday morning when
the schooner was off Cape Porpoise. 1t
seems the captain had decided to come in
TO Portland and the Ham was heading in
this direction. She was on the starboard
tack when suddenly large schooner.
apparently coal laden, loomed up near
them and bore down upon them Captain
Sellers, his crew and mis- passengers
shouted as loud as they could, hoping to
attract the attention of the schooner, but
to nc purpose, for she continued on her
course and soon struck the Ham in the
bow, breaking the bowsprit and injuring
the windlass. When the collision occurred
three men suddenly appeared on 1he un
known schooner's deck-there had been NO.
body seen on board of her. before-but they
made no.inq uiry of the Ham as to whar
damage had been done nor did they give
the name of their own schooner. Imme-
dlately after the collision the unknown
schooner disappeared in the darkness. The
Ham kept on her course until near Rich
mond's Island, when the weather bee omtng
thick and the wind rising it was decided to
come to anchor. This was about 8 O'CLOCK.
An hour later the wind was blowing a gale.
and the sea was getting very boisterous and
the vessel was in very exposed position.
So it was decided to abandon her, and
reach the Cape shore in the ships dory if
possible. Some of the crews clothing and
the passengers effects were hastily
gathered and placed in the boat and the
crew and passengers followed. The sea was
terribly Tough, and the landsmen began to
get good deal more sea air and sea water
than they lad bargained for. Mr. Hickey
who had never battled with waves before.
is said to have bsen carried into decided
ly devotional mood by the inequality of the
contest. 1t is undoubtedly a fact that both
he and Mr.. Grady thought their last hour
had come,and the crew. accustomed as they
were to the perils of the sea, as the waves
dashed against the boat and they saw
ahead of them the boiling surf as it looks
along the Cape shore, were by no means
certain that the fear of the PASSENGERS
W ould not be realized. The wind favored
them however, and they finally beached
the boat on the smooth beach near the
Ocean house, having experienced nothing
worse Than a thorough drt rtnehing. Mr..
Hickey says he will never set his foot on a
vessel again, and we guess he won't while
yesterdays experience fingers In his
What has become of,the abandoned
schooner will not be known until today.
When her crew left her she had two anchors
out, and seemed to he holding on fairy
well. Thescaptaln hopes that she rode out
the gale. but the life saving crew who are
familiar with the place where she was lying
rather expect to find her ashore this morn
ing. She was owned by Joseph Ham of
Boston.