New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-11-03
AN ANCHOR FELL ON HER.
THE STRANGE FATE OF THE SCHOONER
LAUGHING WATER.
HER HArYARDs CAUGHT IN THE FIUKE OF The
HERALD's ANCHOR WHICH scUTTLEp
AND SUNK HER-THE CREW OF
TEN MEN SAVED.

HERALD's ANCHOR. WHICH scUTrLEp
AND SUNK HER-THE CREW OF
TEN MEN SAVED.
New-Haven. Nov. 2 (speciaD.--A remarkable
story Of shipwreck was brought in here to-day by
the three e-masted schooner Herald, OF New-n o'N
II explains the mystery attaching to the un-
known schooner surk off Fenwick Island as re-
ported by the s. L. Storer at Delaware Break
water.
Captain Lowell Of the Herald. reports that the
sunken vessel. which is a dangerous menace 10
navigation is the fishing schooner Laughing
Water OF New-York She is owned in the Full
ton Market He says that she was sunk where
che now lies in ten fathoms OF water. by 3.Ooo-
pound anchor being thrown through her deck anu
hottom from his vessels port bow The two cratt
were In collision, and the force Of the chock ana
the surge Of the sea hurled the anchor from i's
place on the Herald's bow. taking over loo rain
oms OF heavy chain with L
Last Tuesday morning, at about ocloch'
the Heralds lookout saw white hXeo ns"' oA
his lee bow Upon giving second glahce He 9"
a piIot's torchlight burn brightly close ny '"e
side OF the fixed light Then he concluueu ''a'
he was drawing near to a pilot BOAT Tie car
culated that the stationary light was the p''o'
boats masthead light and the torch the Gus
tomary signal used by pilots AS ne supposeu '''"'
the vessel was under canvas. he kept OH 10 p"''
under the stern The vessel, however, proveo u
no the Laughing Water at anchor insteau VI
pilot boat Captain Lowell was close 10 ne' W.
he discovered this but he would nave c'e"ie ~
had she been under headway
The Herald's big port anchor caught one u
hukes In the Laughing Waters mainsaii ""'
Yards The Herald was going ahead at ''e
of ten miles an hour, and there was h'uc" sec 0
The fouled anchor was wrested from i's ias' "
inrs bv the Laughing Waters rigging anu ~
surge Of the sea- and 1t went crashihe uo""
through the deck and bottom OF the Lausi'ns
Water which lay trembling under the hei"iu
high bow. r,
The greatest excitement prevailed al once ~
was so dark that scarcely an object couio oe See
| Every surge Of the sea threatened 10 cras"| III
two vessels together and sink the heraiu. Inv
Laughing Water was sinking rapidiy' anu III
moment her deck was down 70 tne va va - The
| Herald presently drifted 70 me lee"a'u '' '
Laughing Water out Of harms way: ,
! Nine men of the Laughing water crew t,Iad
I'm their berths when the Heralds 8 anchoI sJue.le
their vessel They ran in terror 10 the uecn aliu
tbroving their fishing dories overDoard IeaPeu
into them and pulled away from the SINKING cta f a.
Had the anchor plunged rev ieet IUL,.s' t, thesa
tts course through the Laughing water 'tsse IT,
Us - vrnu,d ali have been crushed to dealt the
accident occurred 90 quickly that it was over ne ne
| fore the tenth of the crew couu dIatIn VI. ~
~ iana .''e 7, was this man who while on watch
bsname frightened at the Herald's approach ,a and
eaehed the pilots torch, which deceived the Her
! aids skipper ,, .,-,, rras holm
! done on the Herald in paying out the heaNS
| chain attached to the lost anchor fast enous'
| 70 keep the Herald away from. ana conse
! ouentlv laundering upon. the wreck. AFTER ti'
/ chain had been nearly all let go Captain Lower
managed to cut 1t and get his vessei free IRON
! It's strange entanglemen'. Shc got ciea' JUS
as the Laughing Water sank
The crew Of the Laughing Water Were
brought here on the Herald and sent to New
York They saved nothing. The captain OF th'
| Laughing Water said his schooner was formerly
| the fastest sailor in the old time fleet OF Cape
| Ann mackerel fishermen. She was built II
| 1855 Al Essex Mass. and had been owned in New
| York for many years She was Of fifty ton:
burden. The captain of the Herald has settled
with the owners of the Laughing Water fol
! Norfolk to New-Haven with coal.