The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-10-30
BATH SCHOONER LOST.
A Survivor Of the Harry Lord
Picked Up at Sea.
EE WAS ADRIFT ON A PIECE OF
WRECKAGE.

Crew-The Rescued Mans Name LA
Benz. #, Weeks and He Was Nearly
Perished with Cold and Hunger-Came
Near Being Eaten By Sharks.
New York, October 29.-Capt. Hopkins
of the schooner Star of the Sea of Boston,
which arrived this morning from CHS
holm Island, S. c., reports that on the
morning of October 25 he sighted piece
of wreckage which appeared to be- the
top of vessels house. On closer in
spection Of the wreck he observed a man
standing on the shouse waving coat to
attract attention. He altered the ships
course, bore down towards the wreck, then
launched small boat i'll charge OF two
seamen, who succeeded in rescu1ng the
occupant of the floating house and
brought him on board. He was in dazed
condition and it required sometime be-
fore he was able to give an account OF
himself. Finally he gave his name as
BENJAMIN L. Weeks and stated that he
belonged to the schooner Harry 5. Lord,
Jr., of Bath, Me-, Captain Kimball,
from Cape Hayti for New York with a
cargo of logwood.
The vessel sailed from the Cape Octo-
ber 10, and experienced variable weather
with heavy seas which caused her to
strain badly SO much so that she sprang
aleak. On October 25 owing to the heavy
sea she became waterlogged.
A heavy sea struck her which started
the after house. 1t soon broke adrift
and f1oated away from the vessel. Weeks
jumped ON top of the house preparing to
take his chances of being picked up by
some passing vessel, rather than remain
on the wreck. The house foated in the
vicinity of the wreck till the next day
when they lost sight Of each other. Weeks
was without food and water, and after
being adrift for "a hours despaired of
ever being rescued. Sharks surrounded
him, but he managed to beat them off
with his coat, which with the shirt he
wore, was all the clothing he had On
the morning of the 25th he sighted the
schooner and was rescued. Weeks could
give no account of his vessels shipmates.
Capt. Hopkins stated that when he
picked ND Weeks from the wreck ne OBJ
apparently changed her course several
times, and in all probability had fallen
in with the waterlogged schooner and
taken off her Grew.
LATER
Benjamin f. Weeks, the shipwrecked
sailor, landed here today. He said be-
sides Capt Kimball and crew of six,
there were two passengers named Bryant
and Jacks of New York on board the
Lord. The schooner after becoming water
logged went on her beams ends.
On the third day the vessel blew mp,
and her deck and top of the deck house
with a ventilator attached, rose 80 feet
in the air and fell about 20 feet to lee
ward. Weeks swan to the deck house
and Bryant and Jack r eredrowned before
his eyes. At daylight on the 24th Weeks
saw the Lord some distance away, her
stern sticking ssout of water and three
quarter of the whole length forward be-
ing submerged. Waves were breaking
high and on the top OF the deck house he
saw distinctly three Of his comrades
still clinging to the stern of the schoon-
er Weeks said he thought these men
must have gone down with the wreck OF
the schooner an he believed he was the
only survivor. The rest of his state
ment graphically describes his sufferings
| before being rescued