The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-04-14
death IN THE STORM
All on Board Two Vessels
Perish on the Jer-
sey Coast.

One Crew Swept AWAY by the farious
Seas in Plain View of the Helpless
Life Savers-One Poor seaman Car
ried Back After Fighting His Way
to shallow water-Grcat Desrruc-
tioD Along the Coast-Damage By
wind, snow and Rain at Many
Points, Delaware Fishing Boats
ArnihiiateI.
HIGHLANDS y. T.. April l2-Nn such
storm IA that of yesterday aud last night
has visited the Jersey coast in years
TelegraphIc communication below this
tont is entirely cut of an New York
is reached only by circuit Us route.
The railroad northward 10 New York
and way stations suffered but little de-
Law, but ,uthwarI. mile distant, the
great Highland bluffs cayed, hundreds
cs tons OF earth falling over the track,
stopping all trains.
Below the Highlands the beac" branch
OF the road is inundated AS far south as
Seabright station, and trains north from
Long Branch stop there. Railroad ties
cover the beach inside the sea bulkheads
between the Highlands and Seabr:gat,
and the tracks ere bent into horssshoes
IN many places
When the storm was at its height, the
atmosphere thick with pelting rain and
snow, and the windss sowing a hurricane,
scraping up great com bers that beat with
terrific fury on the coast, the operator at
the Highlands station OF the Jersey Cen
trail road saw three masted schooner
off shore laboriously working along to-
wards Sandy Hook. bound in.
He at once notified the marine observer
st tSe Hook TO warn life saving station
Ne !, that vessel was coming ashore.
This was done and Captain Patterson OF
that station telephoned station No. :, at
Sperm City cove, five miles nearer the
scene OF the threatened" Cb"%reck, and the
life savers set out for work.
Meantime the operator watched the
schooner. The man at the wheel seemed
oblivious TO his danger. At o'clock,
when the crew WAS doubtless changing
watches, the seameu evidently discovered
their danger. for the spanker was run up
a piece and the sc4soaer was worked
around close into the vi Al and headed
II.
suddenly she swung back and it was seen
that the spanker was torn TO shreds. She
was being blown by a seventy-mile gale
directly into the breakers. Speeding on
she came head on the beach.
All hands could be seen clsmbering
aloft.
She had hardly got ashore when the life
savers were on the scene They had
brought no boats None could live in
such "A surf Tney got their life lines and
guns ready One was fired, but the line
parted.
Another line went over the schooner
and hung over the stay, but the two men
in the mizzen shrouis could not get 10
the line Another line fell over the stay
between the n sin and foremasts Three
more of the luckless sailors were in the
forptop, but they could not reach the line.
Three others OF the crsw were clin yin2 TO
the bpvsprit.
The b wv OF the schooner was fast put
under the power Of the angry sea. She
WAS rolling over from side TO side and
pounded against the beach A lurch TO
starboard broke the port stays and
shrouds of the mizzen mast and another
lurch carried that stick by the board,
pulling the main topmast along with it.
shrouds were not seeu again. At this
point Capt !. II. West aud seven men
arrived from the life saving station at
Seabright, three miles TO the south. Just
as they arrived the mainmast and he fore
mast of the schooner succumb.d and
went over the pc -t de. Thi, broke off
the bowsprit and the last man had been
washed into the fOaring, seething break
ers. Oaly two re relppeared; one was big
and POVERTY mrn and h I'D been seen
jumping from the bowsprit as it snapped
off He fought desperately to gain the
shore and got near enough TO get "A footing
vast deep Another line fired at that
moment and be might have been saved.
but none was left three being the outfit
number OF station, and the two not
parted were tanglel in the wreckazs OF
the schooner.
Anothe. com Der broke and the man dis
appeared.
One other man was seen elm ying to one
OF the masts His strength gave out,
be let 20. and was not again seen.
The fury OF the storm continued with
undated violence and the ill-fated ves-
sci began TO break up. In less than two
hours oniy.s portion Of her bow, held to-
gether Dy the bracings OF the forecastle,
retained any sem blance 70 a ship. This
was thrown over on its starboard side
and or the port side coul be distin-
guished the name, Kate Markee.
No bodies came ashore. Tley were
carried out by the undertow, which is
extra strong when the wind is inshore.
With n change of wind some Of the
bodies OF the luckless crew may be
washed upon the beach.
The Kate Markee hailed f-om Cape
Ann, whence she was carrying paving
stones 20 Philadelphia. she was COM
manded iy Capt Daniel Handy. who.
IL presumed. was trying 90 m axe
haven. when his vessel came unto the
Cuts ia Quick Succession.
ANsON1A. Conn. April IL The wage
Of the employees Of the star Pin company
have teen reduced 10 per cent This
n. Il - T.