The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-17
IN THE FURY OF THE STORM
CAPT. SMITH LASRES RIs DAUGH.
 TER TO THE RAIL.


 The Child Constantly Drenched by tl,s
 Chilling Waves With Only Thin Skirt On-Crew Forced to Bind Themselves to
 Helpless VesseI-Thirty- six Hours With
 out Food or Water.
 Boston, Oct. 16.-Among the passen- gers on the steamer Gate City Captain Goggins, which arrived this afternoon from Savannah, were Captain A. p. smith, his fifteen year old daughter. Edith L., and six seamen of the wreck ed schooned Leila Smith of Machias. Me, who owe their lives to the gallant conduct of the crew of the Gate City. who rescued them from their sinkiny vessel.
 Captain Smith states that he loaded a cargo of lumber at Wilmington, N. C.. and left that port September 26 for Beverly, Mass. Owing to adverse winds he anchored at Southport until October l. Saturday, the 10th, when in the vi- cinity of Fire Island, the gale had in- creased at midnight to perfect hur- ricane. The vessel was discovered to be leaking, and the water rose rapidly in the hold. At p. m. Sunday the lash ings holding the deckload were cut in order to ease the vessel, but it did not have the effect of doing so, as part of the deckload was swept back on board and the remainder was dashed up against the side of the schooned by the heavy seas
 At o'clock that night the vessel was full of water. The wind was bowling all the time and the waves were mak- ing a complete breech over her, making it difficult to move about. The car- go in the hold alone kept the vessel afioat The cabin was gutted by the waves, all the provisions, fresh water, and nautical instruments, together with the personal effects of his daughter and himself and crew were swept into the sea and lost.
 The captain says: "I lashed my daugh~ ter Edith to the quarterrail, she being clothed only in thin skirt, the weather being bitterly cold and the waves drenching her to the skin repeatedly. The crew and myself soon after lashed ourselves to the same rail- and for the next thirty-six hours, without food or
 
 would be impossible to describe. We expected the vessel would capsize at any moment, and had long given up hope of rescue when succor arrived in the shape of the steamer Gate City"
 The steamer hove-to near by and al- though the sea was running mountains high she lowered a boat and manned Ey Chief Officer J. Hewlett and Seamen Patrick Morrisey, Charles Thompson, Robert Carlson, Edward Manson and John Stockson The work of rescue was attended with the utmost difficulty and the brave life-savers had all they could do to bring their boat alongside the wreck. Finally, however, they reached the schooner, and the captains daughter was hastily put in the toat, followed by one seaman and the cap- tain. With these three the boat return ed to the steamer where they were safely put aboard and the boat returned for the remainder of the crew. The transfer was accomplished without ac- cident, but the crew were well nigh ex- hausted from exposure. The captain and his daughter left for their home in Jonesboro, Me-, this evening.
 IHe three IHdSlSI Mdiy Ia. GioSUy oI Nantucket, Captain Davis, which sa.l- ed from here this morning, ran ashore in the Hubble, near Nix's Mate, where she remains. Tug Juno will make an effort to float her at high water.
 The Pollock Rip lightship, which dragged from her position in Vineyard sound during the late hurricane, was replaced on her position this morning, the bell buoy in Pollock Rip slue, which dragged some distance from its positions was also replaced.