The Anaconda standard., 1895-02-11

chances of the big steamer from an i'm |
partial standpoint.
La Gascoigne is now eight days overdue. !
She has faced many a furious gale in the |
years that she has crossed the Atlantic, |
but never was she so tardy in reaching !
port.
On Oct. &c. 1891, she came into New |
York harbor WI go souls on board, tho |
salt encrusted to the top of her tunnels. |
For four days and nights she had been in |
the grip of n hurricane. One day of such |
weather would have tested the staunch- |
ness of almost anything that floats, but |
La Gascoigne reached New York practi- |
cally uninjured.
Ii is such experiences that has given the |
agents in this city confidence that their
boat is still plowinG the seas or safe in
some way harbor. The men in the Office
of the French line do not worry much.
None of them believe the Ia Cascolgne to
be lost. 1t is the friends and relatives of
the passengers that are fearful of the
worst.
The mon who report vessels far down
the bay have kept their eyes sharp toward
the faint hope of being the first to signal
the missing steamer.
At 7:2o O'Clock tonight the Hamburg
American liner Dana was reported of
Fire Island. Two hours later an unknown
steamer was reported passing sandy
Hook light house. There 1t Is
anchored and il is believed 10 he
la Normandia, a sister ship of the La
Gascoigne. Ia Normandia sailed from
Havre Feb. .. and coming over the same
course as La Gascoigne.it 1T was confidently
expected that she would have tidincs of
the otner. No signals TO that effect are
displayed and now the ofiicinls
of the line fix their hopes on
La Tourraine, which sailed from Havre
on "Wednesday last with instructions to
keep the strictest lookout for the La Gas
cogne and. if necessary, to spend extra
time in making n detour from the regular
course. just what news the Dana or La
Normanda may bring is doubtful, but
they have given no indication up to the
present time of having spoken to the
missing ship.
FIRE ISLAND. \. ", Feb. 10.--Two mon
who c.ung for A hours to the rigging of
their vessel off Fire Island beach were res
cued at midnight by the crew of tho Lone
/ Hill life saving station. The vessel was
the schooner Louis V. Place, Captain
! Squires, laden from Baltimore TO New
! York. She was wrecked during the height
of the gale. Nine men took to the rig
! giug when the vessel went down, about
an eighth of a mile of shore, and they
clung In the rigging during the blizzard
until, one by one, seven of them slipped
into sea or hung lifeess, bound to the rig
ging. Two only were able to endure the
terrible exposure. They are j. 5. Nelson
and w. A. Stevens. They are badly FROST
| bitten.
The story of their rescue is a tribute TO
1 hS H-a -I,,N haw frr 4 At
two days been making almost superhuman
efforts to reach tho wrecked schooner.
1t was on Tuesday last that the Place
was wrecked. The lifesavers sent out life
lines but not before the seamen were al
! most frozen to death and SO still as to bo
unable to get them. They tried many
times to launch boat, but each time the
breakers drove them back to shore. The
same attempts were repeated for two
days while, one by one, the men in the
rigging gave way to exposure.
When at midnight last night the life
savers, under command of Captain Baker.
pushed their boat into tho surf and pulled
like mad TO the wreck, there we're but two
lives remaining of the nine. During all
that time the men in tho ropes had not
tasted food or drink. Just spark of life
seemed TO remain, and although tho two
were able TO drop from tne rigging into
the life boat. thoy were almost insensible.
Nelson presented a terrible appearance.
His face, hands and feet we're frozen and
he was unable TO speak for several hours.
Stevens had been more fortunate and the
other survivor had been kept alive through
his efforts. Ench time Nelson's head sank
on his breas during the binding storm,
Stevens would reach over and punch him
into sensibility again. The latter was
soon able to tell tho story of the wreck
and tho terrible experience of the two
men.
The dead are Captain Charles Squires.
80 years old, married.. with one child. New
York; Engineer Charles Allen, g years
old. Providence, Il. l.; Mate Jaibe, A
years old. of Norway; Fritz Ward, sea-
man, 20 years old. of Norway; Charles
Morrison. cook Gus Oesar, IS years old,
of Sweden; August Fullerton, seaman.
The bodies of the mate and the Swede are
still lashed to the rigging. Tho others
dropped into the sea.
NEW YORK, Feb. 10.-The Rcd Star
steamship Rniueland arrived ia port to-
day, Tons of water had been shipped
over her sides and formed into ice on heI
decks. Captain Mills reporte the mosr
tempestuous voyage he htd ever eN-
perenced. The Rhineland eft Antwerp
on Jan. 26. The crew suffered keen ly
, from the intense cold.