The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-30
LIKE OLD TINE PIRATES
Shipwrecked Passengers Robbed
by Belle Isle Ruffans
THE LIFE-SAVERS AT WORK
Three Vessels Wrecked While Trying
to Make HarbOr
Two Schooners Can Be Hauled Off, but the
Steamer Kershaw Il .
Total Loss
THE LIFE-SAVERS AT WORK

MONTREAL, Sept. o9.-The stories
told by the shipwrecked crew of the
steamship Mariposa, who Where brought
up.from the Straits of Belle Isle by the
steamship Austrian, read more like the
tales of piracy of century ago than a
present day incident. A storm was rag
ing when the big Dominion liner struck
on the Jagged rocks of Point Amour at 2
O'Clock on the morning of Thursday.
Septembe Der oath. The saloon passengers
were landed on the rocks as soon as prac-
ticable. along with their baggage. The
steamer had been aground but few
hours before band of Belle Isle pirates
made their appearance. They first paid
attention to the baggage of the saloon
passengers, which they foroibly seiz ed
and carried some distance inland.
II. M. S. Buszard: of the New Found
land patrol service. however, fortunately
happened along and d party of blue
Jackets started in pursuit. The pirates
we're taken unawares a.Uund a camp fire.
One OF the fellows bad donned the uni
form of Captain Casgrain of the royal en-
gineers, young Canadian returning to
rejoin his regiment. ALI the baggage was
recovered and the pirates warned away.
The Mariposa will be a total loss but
most of the live stock and some of her
cargo will be saved.
ST. JOHNS, n. F.. Sept. %. The Eng
lish cruiser Buzzard arrived this morn
ing from the wreck of the steamer Mari
poss, near Fortneau, straits of Belle Isle.
She came to arrange for the dispatch of
steamers to discharge the cargo. Other
steamers are arranging to go. The Mari
posa went ashore on Tuesday morning,
four hours before day break, with a thick
fog prevailing. When it was light enough
4 20 Inn hn xv,oy tnn
high to send them by the boats and the
crew had to send life lines ashore and
rig breeches buoy to fasten thetpassen-
gers to and thus send them to land one
at a time. Two women tainted before
going AMI several others while making
the trip. All were taken on board the
Allan liner Sardinia and conveyed to
Montreal next day. The ship was total
wreck ana her whole bottom was destroy
ed by being forced over the rocks when
she struck Fishermen are trying to
save as much salvage as possible.
MARQUETTE, Mich, Sept. 29.-The
steam barge Kershaw and the schooners
Moonlight and Kent went ashore on the
Choclay beach, four miles west OF this
place, at A o'clock this morning while
trying to make this harbor. The schoon-
ers were driven high or sandy beach
and Will weather the storm. The ker-
shaw was driven on reef nearly m lie
from shore and broke in two In the MID
die. the bow being washed away. The
other half of the boat is still on the
rocks, with furious sea beating against
her. The life saving crew reached the
wreck at about o clock and took off nine
of the crew. When returning to get the
other four men of the crew the boat cap
sized and the life saving crew had mar
row escape. When they reached shore
half of them were disabled from cold and
four of them nearly dead. Another boat
was manned at the station. with part OF
the life saving crew and volunteers,
which reached the wreck at 2 p. m. and
rescued the four men who were in yawl
attached to the wreck by cable and in a
perilous position.
NEW LONDON, Conn.,, Sept. 29.-The
schooner Josie F., bound from st. John,
N. B.. for Stonington with a cargo OF
lumber. ran on the rocks off Napa Tree
Point before daylight this morning. A
gale was blowing and the vessel was soon
beaten to pieces. The crew we're taken
off by the Watch Hill life savers.