The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-06-15
RESCUED FROM THE WAVES
CAPTAIN AND CREW OF SCHOONER
JENNIE ROGERS.

The Vessel Went Down In IA Gale When or
FauliIner's Island-saved by the Captain
and Crew of Tug--NearIy Exhausted.
brought to This Port-A Stowaway
Went Down With the Vessel.
Capt WAS. Durkee of the tug Hon
eybrook, bound from New York for
Boston, with coal in tow, put in port
here yesterday afternoon with the crew
of the schooner Jennie Rogers of New
London, which he rescued from the
sinking vessel at $50 o'clock yester-
day morning. The crew was composed
OF Captain Keefe and four men, The
Rogers sank off Faulkners Island as
the tug Honeybrook was bearing down
upon her. She went down stern first.
The vessel left New London at 4:S0 yes-
terday morning, loaded with dressed
granite, bound for New York. One
passenger, known about the wharyes
there as 'Molasses Sam" a man we'll
advanced in years, came aboard her a:
short while before she left He was the
only man whom Captain Durkee was
unable to rescue. He was seen on the,
jibboom as the Rogers went down, and
never appeared afterwards. The ar
rival of the tug Honeybrook was most
fortunate, as from the time the schoon-
er was first in distress to the moment
she went down was less than fifteen
minutes. Five minutes after she
sprung aleak and began to fill the
schooner was in the trough Of the sea.
and the waves were rolling clear over
her. The wind was blowing a gale
from the northeast The Honeybroos
was the only other craft in sight Cap
tain Durkee was within 500 feet of the
schooner when she went down. The
storm was so violent that he had to get
within ten feet of the crew before he
could rescue any of them. The four
seamen were clinging to the keel of the
capsized tender, and Captain Keefo
was floating on a hatchway with an
oar under one arm and ladder UNDER
the other. He was in position to en-
dure his harship the longest. The crew
was terribly exhausted when the life
line was thrown to them. Two of them
were so nearly overcome that Captain
Durkee and the crew of the Honey
brook had to work on them for some
time. The sailboat from which theyi
were rescued capsized almost imz9e-
diately after the Rogers sank. They
neglected to cast off the painter in their
excitement, and could not cut it in time
to save themselves. The Rogers crew
lost everything they had, and were
dressed shabbily. When they arrived
at this port they were put aboard the
New London schooner. Thomas Beatty,
as they We're unwilling to come ashore
in their old clothes. They had no mon
ey. They will return to New London
this morning.
The schooner Jennie Rogers was al
two master of SO tons. She was due in
New York early this morning, as the
granite she had on board was to be
used for steps at the stable of one Of
the Astors. Her cargo was quite valu-
able, and consisted of 1870 tons. She
carried fifty tons of dressed granite in
her hold, and eighty tons on deck. The
overlooking of her deck probably caus-
ed her to founder. She was twenty
four years DID, and had been in the
stone carrying business sixteen years.
She was owned by the William Booth
company, the owners of the Vinal Haa
ven Granite company.