Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-08-23

70 On BOlnt IN tne tlcOp JoStptln-' o"t
were on their return 10 Coobs. heavy
ga.o was blowing, anu WA Sooo ~a--
Brown wanted 10 gurn bacA, 5at Dousn'y
persisted IN going. saying that he must
get TO Cobhs Island 20 meet a payment
that was due upon his boat. Seas were
running mountain high. and they deter
mined 10 run into Smiths Island Inlet.
cobb had climbed into the rigging TO
look for the best water, when a fearful
sea struck the Josephine.
SWEPT OVERHEARD.
SO immense was the wave that II
struck Cobb in the rigging. Brown,
seeing the approaching sea. dashed him
self fast with the main sheet. Doughty
was swept overheard. Brown threw
coils OF rope TO him. and among other
things an car. but Doughty seemed
dazod, and was soon lost TO view. The
next day all the beaches were searched
for the lost man. and he was finally given
up for dead. About ten days later. to the
astonishment OF everybody on tho island.
Doughty madc his appearance. and as u
seemed to his friends he had risen from
the grave. His property had already
been administered upon.
1t seems that when Doughty came 10
himself the oar which had been thrown
10 him was near by, and he chung To
this, which proved 10 him a life buoy. He
drifted, he said. through five miles of
breakers, and It must have been so, for
he was lost near dry lsaac's Shoals on
Cape Charles Light, and after being in
tho water for Eve hours he was picked
up by a schooner bound for Alexandria,
Va. in the North Channel of the Chesa-
peake, just off Flsherman's Inlet. He
was too weak to be put ashore, and was
carried TO Alexandria.
A STRANGE ENDING.
II Is a strange fact in the history OF
Doughty that after clinging to life so
teuaciously no should have ended his days
by drowning at his own hand. 1t is said
that he gave TO a friend 500, stipulaung
that II he Doughty should die first. his
friend Would take his body. and sailing
twenty miles in a northeasterly direction
in the Atlantic Ocean, would there weight
and bury his remains. However. he
moved 20 the mainland, and one day
dressed himself in his Sunday clothes,
went out and drowned himself in deep
channel near by. Thoy traced his foot
steps 10 the spot and found he had
weighted himself with bricks and waded
into the water.
VESSELS ASHORE.
Following is a list OF vessels stranded
of Cobb's, as complete as could be given
from memory:
Schooner Columbia
Schooner Frank, Of Frankfort.
Brig fremont
Ship BSuchard
TIE Edward Preble.
Schooner Lamontine.
Schooner Gaseous, from Maine 10 JACK
sonvllle Fla
Schooner Purdy Smith, New York.
United States Coast-Survey steamer
Hetsel: blown up; six men killed.
Ship Luna, OF Baltimore.
Brig Massachusetts.
ship International United States; load
cd with ammunition. 1t is believed the
ammunition exploded when the ship
struck.
Schooner Jane Ingle. from Rockland'
Me. for Alexandria, Va. SIX men. Man
at wheel struck and badly wounded.
Schooner Empire. New YORK packet
about 1861. Two men frozen to death
George Bartsu.
Alexandra Blue; total loss; crew saved
Schooner Grant, Of Philadelphia.
Schooner Martha Collins. Captain
washed overheard. but saved.
Three-masted schooner John A. Bailey
Schooner Minerva Wright
John 7. Grice.
Lewis spanier. of Centreville, Mass.
Brig John Gibbons, OF St. Johns, y. r.
Schooner Truden.
Schooner Morning Light
Steamer ironsldes: total loss.
Steamer Antelope
Fishing smack Priscilla Ann.
Bark Cricket.
Schooner Harry Lee.
Schooner William b. jenkins; Christ
mas. 81.
Schooner Thomas Woolsey.
schooner Pawnee.
Brig Sarah Graves.
Schooner George Todd.
Sep. Candis.
shin Ann Eliza: two men killed by ex-
plosion of steam-pump. Young Joe Baker
OF the Baker Salvage Company, was one
OF those killed.
Schooner Enoch Pratt. Of New York.
Cob.