The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-15

] gers of the Deep.
| New York, Oct. 1I.-Capt. Ghecn and
| six men. crew of the schooner Luther NJ.
REYNOLDS. of Frederick, Delaware, who
were picked up ut sea from their dis
masted and waterloggcd vessel by the
| Morgan Liner Emar, were brought to
this city to-day. Capt. Gheen said the
schooner left Brunswick, Ga, on Septem-
| Der 50 with II cargo of railroad ties for
| Elizabeth Port, y. j., October III. When
| of Cape Romano she met with Il north
| erly gale but managed to beat up to win
| ter quarter lightship, when the gale in
| creased to II hurricane. She was headed
| off shore for eight hours and then hove to
under close reefed mainsal and spanker
| and made good weather of it, until Sun
day morning. last, when three CT four
heavy seas washed aboard, starting the
deck load and opened seams so that the
vessel began to leak badly. The crew
manned the pumps and stuck to them in
spite of the fact that the water steadily
gained on them until the vessel filled an
burst up the matches. The hurricane
struck the Reynolds bro haside and she
heeled over until the topmast touched
the water. All the crew scrambled over
chung there The seas were running
heavily and soon washed the masts and
deck houses away and then the vessel
righted, but the decks were ripped up,
Che cabin washed out and all the food,
water, clothing and nautical Instruments
gone The crew huddled aft with no pro-
lection save Il strip of canvass, while the
seas broke continually over the schooner.
Sunday night they watched for help and
Monday morning ut II o. clock the Emar
hove in sight well to the southwark and,
sighting the wreck, made for her and
took Off the Reynolds crew.
AN IMMENSE WAVE.
Gloucester, Mass, Oct. 14-All in
coming fishermen report the recent storm
to have been one of unusual severity.
The schooner Florence S. Stream arrived
to-day from Lehave Banks with flag ut
half mast The vessel while hove to Mon
day night ut / o'clock, was struck by an
immense wave. When the men saw it
coming they took to the rigging. Cap
tain Stream and two seamen named Au.
gustus Baurinent and Antoine Anderson
were not rs fortunate rs the others of the
crew and were struck by the wave which
swept the decks from stern to stern. An
derson was carried overheard and lost
Baurinent barely saved himself by catch
ing the log line. The captain was consid-
erably injured by the wave but managed
to hold on to the deck.
MAY BE SAVED.
Anglesca, n. j., Oct 14--The Winsor
Line steamship Spartan from Boston for
Philadelphia, which grounded on HERE
ford bar night before last, was pulled
about 100 feet astern to. day by the tugs
which have been working at her since
daylight yesterday. She is perfectly tight
and shows no sign of strain There is
every reason for believing that the ship
will be floated with the assistance of tugs
on the next high tide, as she now lies
within 100 feet of deep water. \ consid-
cradle portion of the cargo was removed
from the Spartan to-day and placed on
lighters.
THE SHIP ABANDONED.
Lcwes, Del, Oct 1.-THE steamship
E.arndae, from St. Jago for philadelphia.
arrived this afternoon bringing seven
shipwrecked men VINO were picked up on
Monday south of IIatteras They are
Capt. Rich and the crew of the schooner
William e. Cloves, lumber laden. from
Brunswick, Ga, for New York The vessel
became water logged in the recent hurr.
cane and the crew after working hard ut
the pumps for a number of hours were
finally compelled to abandon their ship
and take to the boats. They drifted help
lcssly on the ocean until the Earndalc
sighted them and took them on board.
All are reported well.
III STEERS LOST.
New York. Oct. 14-The Saint Line
steamer st. Hubert, which left Philadel-
phia for London last Friday with full
| cargo of general merchandise and deck
load of cattle, sustained such damage in
! Sundays hurricane that she was Obliged
| TO bear up for this port to refit. She ar
| rived this afternoon and showed every
| trace of the fearful weather she had en-
countcred. Her decks were encountered,
both fore and aft, with the wrcckage OF
| the cattle pens and deck fittings. and
| Ia fine steers were missing, having been
washed overheard
| THE CREW RESCUED.
: New York, Oct. 14-The Mallory Line
steamer Concho, brought from Key West
rs passengers John Olsen and crew of the
Norwegian bark saturn, which foundered
in September i'll hurricane on the vov.
age from Belize for Allao
| DAMAGED BY THE STORM.
Savannah, Ga, Oct. 1.-THE steamshi,
City of Macon, which arrived this morn
ing from Philadelphia, sustained some
| slight damages from the storm. John
Sullivan, one of the firemen, had two OF
his ribs broken and was otherwise in
| jured.
THE YUMURI ARRIVES.
New York, Oct IA The Ward Line
steamer Yumuri, from Mexico and Ha
| wanna arrived at Quarantine shortly af