The Portland daily press., 1895-04-16

Mitchell the First Mate MI. Eaton. was
/ Gone Forever-The Story of a Ihrillin.
scene-After-the-s Notes Alone the
| Water Front.
| The Harrington arkentine, Ethel v.
Boynton. arrived Sunday. but did NOT
20 to the Grand Trunk wharf until YES
terday afternoon, her flag then being
placed at half, mast. The Boynton passed
through avery trying time. When off
Cape Hatteras, April s, they strucks into
storm of the kind SO familiar to all
mariners who have ben off that dreaded
cape. The Boynton was terribly tried.
She had her main and spanker Blooms
broken.by great wave that boarded her
and which tore furled mainsail into
rags.
Every man on deck saw the wave COM
ing, and knew that all they could do
was to hold fast for their lives. The crew
were all on deck, and when the great
wave rolled over the shooner, it fairly
beat them down. The first mate, Hamlin
Eaton, of Harrington, was taken up and
literally hurled overheard, and at the
same time the wave took one from a
group of sailors and flung the rest to-
gether, bruising them and leaving them
half dead. The sailor was Ola Kenset.
and he never came to the surface after he
went under, or if he did, he was not
seen by his shipmates.
Mr. Ration xyoc cnap a Saoopd afror l,
went over the side, and shouted for
help. His despairingscry was heard by
Captain Mitchell, who, bruised and
beaten by the force of the wave, had
just. regained a foothold. HeTseized a
| line and threw it to him, and the mate
for an Instant held fast, Then the
schooner was struck by wave not as
| large as the first, but large enough to
| break his hold, and he was gone.
TIE second mate, Irving Parker, had
very close call. The wave that took Mr..
Eaton over thesside, took Mr.. Parker
clear off the deck. AS he wasSgoing over.
he caught at a rope and was able to hold
on until the force of the wave was over.
whensh he regained the deck. Mr.. Parker
was badly injured about the head, and
as matter of fact, everyone on board
was more or less injured.
That the schooner was saved, was due
to the fact that the great wave thai
boarded her was not followed by a sec.
ond like itself. No vessel could have
longsstood up under such pounding. Had
the men been able to have given Captain.
M1tchellsany assistance when Mr.. Eaton
had the line, he believes it might have
been possible to have saved the mate
but the time was short and the men had
not recovered from the semi unconscious
condition into which they were thrown
by the shock of the great wave, and the
precious opportunity passed. The cap
tain tried his best to save the doomed
man, and saw his white and despairing
face for the last time when the rome
broke from his grasp.
Kenset was Swede. He was prob
ably injured when he was taken m Nv
the wave, perhaps dashed against the
side OF the schooner, or carried down
speak or saw himssafter he was taken
from almost the midst of his shipmates
who had managed to catch at some
ropes just before the wave fell down
upon them.
W. H. Dugan, yesterday, completed the
work OF discharging the cargo of the
schooner Cumberland, AMI then took his
crew to the schooner Borden. He ex-
poets to get out her cargo by noon TODAY.
and will then discharge the schooner
Edward Waite.
S. d. Warren & Co., yesterday, received
842 bales OF rags by steamer from New
York.
McKeown. the riqger, is putting new
topmast in the schooner Eva and Mil
dred.
The Commercial street sewer is giving
no end of trout BILE. Yesterday it was nee.
esseary to again send down the engin es
to pump out cellars in the vicinity Of the
custom house.
BIG. Wilson Of Orr's Island had fresh
water ice pond before the storm. It is
part of the Atlantic ocean now.
Captain Townsend of the steamer
Phantom, launched his new s7-foot
sloop yacht at Freeport, on Friday. and
took her on trial trip in the bay. She
sailed and handled beautifully, steered
by AL Sterling, engineer of the Phan-
tom.
The Allan liner Numidian, Can't. Mac
Nicol, arrived ut Halifax at $50 a. m.
Sunday. She brings 1916 tons of freight
or this port, and eight saloon, II int er :
this port.
Twelve automatic potato planting ma
chimes, which arrived from New York
were forwarded to Houlton by the Maine
Steamship Company yesterday.
Work on the steamer Vancouver was
suspended yesterday because of The non.
arrival of freight expected over the
Grand Trunk, and which will complete
her cargo.
A good many people went over TO the
Cape yesterday morning to see the
waves, ana were not disappointed.
Al the office of the Central Tow Boat
company yesterday afternoon, a man
who went over, said that it was well
worth going long way to see.
The previous day the forcee of the
WIND was greater. but the heavy rain
beat the waves down more.