The news & observer., 1897-01-22
WHOLE CREW LOST
Three Masted Schooner Nahum
Chaplin Goes Down.
NEAR OIIOGIIE IcI AMI
NEAR QUOGUE, l.. ISLAND
DURING A SEVERE STORM AND
A HEAVY SURF.
AND LATER WENT TO PIECES
The Sailors Dropped Off the Rigging
One by One into the Water in
Sight of Hundreds Power,
less to Help Them.

1858 ~ sHCUIs
New York, Jan. 21.-The three-masted
schooner Nahum Chaplin, of Rockland
Maine, coal laden from Baltimore for
Boston, went ashore near Quogue, L. l.,
at an early hour this morning, and her
entire crew, consisting of nine men, were
lost in sight Of hundreds of people, who
gathered on the beach, but were power
less to render assistance.
The vessel went ashore at 4:30 q. M.
AT that hour there was thick rain fall
ing, and while it was not foggy, it was
mist sufficient to make OBJ
iccts very indstinct at dis
tance of 200 yards. The wind
was blowing from the southeast at a
velocity of>about 80 miles an hour, and
heavy surf was rolling on the beach.
The vessel pounded for over two hours
after she first struck, and the waves
drove her gradually in shore and finally
she went to pieces.
About o'clock Captain Herman, OF the
Quogue Life-Saving Station, and his
men brought their apparatus from the
house to a point just opposite the wreck
ed vessel, but when they shot the life
line it was too late to be Of any service
The sailors who, when patrolmen had
sighted the schooner, were in the rig
ging, had dropped off one by one into the
seething waters, and soon after one
OF the bodies, that of a Swede, was wash
ed ashore. The life-savers worked man
fully; their first line fired from the mortar
fell across the yards, but slipped away
over the side and was lost The second
landed on the rigging, but the sailors
were unable to secure 1t and it also was
lost. "A third attempt was also ineffect-
ual and then the crowd of villagers who
had gathered on the beach, saw the last
man fall from the rigging and disappear
in the surf, which, at this time, was run
ming unusually high.
The life-saving crew made an attempt
To launch the Iife-boat bur they weFe
repulsed each time by the breakers, a.
though the bystanders encouraged the
brave fellows in every possible manner.
the hardy sailors who are noted for their
bravery had to desist after struggling.
half frenzied by the appalling sight of
their fellows being drowned within such
a short distance of land.
The body Of the first sailor was taken
to the life-saving station and it was soon
followed by another, evidently another
Swede Some of those who touched this
body when it was thrown up from the
surf said that life was not extinct hui
all effort at resuscitation proved frutless.
and soon there was two corpses living side
by side on the floor of the station house
From papers found on the first body the
name of the schooner was ascertained.
and word was Immediately sent to Lieu
tenant Failing, inspector of the third
life-saving district, and he sent word
from his place at Bellport that he would
go to the scene Of the wreck as soon as
possible.
There were in all nine men seen on the
ill-fated vessel, and it was generally
surmised that the first body washed
i'll was either that Of the captain or first
mate.
Three hours after she first struck the
schooner~went to pieces, and the shore
for miles was strewn with wreckage.
Patroling parties, made up of villagers
and fishermen, kept close watch along the
beach for miles on each side of the scene
in hopes that they might render assist
ance in case Of any of the unfortunate
crew should be lucky enough to reach
land. There is no doubt that all on board
perished.
Boston, Mass, Jan. 21.-The principal
owners Of the schooner Nahum Chaplin,
lost with her crew off Quogue l.. r.
this morning, were Peter Mcintyre &
Co, of this city. Captain S. E. Arey,
who commanded the vessel, was q part
owner. The crew of the schooner, nine
in number, were shipped here last Novem- |
Der.
The names are as follows: s. II. Arey,
captain, Maiden, Mass; A II. Davis,
first mate, Maiden, Mass; T.. A. Mad /
dock, second mate, Cambridge, Mass; |
seamen, John Neibor, Albert Lowe, R. O. /.
Anderson, Victor Strachen, Oscar Oscar, I
Antonio Aucyanich.
Captain Arey leaves widow and three /
residing in Maiden. Mate Da- I
Wis and second mate Maddox, each leave !
a wife and one child.
The schooner was loaded with about I
l 300 tons of bituminous coal consigned /
to the West End Street Railway Com I
psny. The cargo was valued at SO 400. /
The schooner was valued at $4,000. |
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