The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-01-22
Nine SAILORS PERISH.
Wreck of the Nahum Chaplin on
Long Islands Coast.
FUTILE ATTEMPTS AT RESCUE
Tie Life Savers Worked Manfully to Save
the Men from the Rigging, but They
Dropped on One by One and the Vessel
Went to Pieces.

Tie Life Savers Worked Manfully to Save
the Men from the Rigging, but They
Dropped on One by One and the Vessel
Went to Pieces.
NEW YORK, Jan. 22.-The three mastet
schooner Nahum Chaplin, of Rockland,
Me-, coal laden, from Baltimore for Bos
ton, went ashore near Quogue L. l., yes
tsrday, and her entire crew, consisting OF
nine men, were lost in sight of hundreds
Of people who had gathered on the beacf
but were powerless to render assistance,
The vessel went ashore at 80 a. IN Al
that hour there was thick rain falling
and while it was not foggy, there was
mist sufficient to make objects very in
distinct at distance Of two hundred
yards The wind was blowing from the
southeast, at u velocity of about thirty
miles an hour, and high surf was rolling
up on the beach. The vessel pounded fol
over two hours after she first struck, and
the waves drove her gradually in shore
and finally she went to pieces, crumblin9
before the fury of the mighty waves as II
she were an eggshell.
Captain Charles Herman, of the Quogue
life saving station, assisted by his men,
brought their apparatus from the house
to point just opposite the wrecked yes
sci, but when they shot out their life line
it was too late to be of an y service. The
sailors who from the moment the patrol
man had sighted the schooner, were soc
clinging to the rigging, dropped OIL one
by one into the seething waters and soon
after two bodies were washed ashore.
The life savers worked manfully, Their
first line fired from the mortar fell across
the yards, but slipped away over the side
and was lost The second landed in the
rigging, but the sailors were unable to
secure it and il was also lost. A third at
tempt was also Intellectual and then ths
crowd of villagers who gathered on the
beach saw the last of the inen fall from
the rigging and disappear In the surf,
which at the time was running unusually
high.
The life saving crew made an attempt
to launch lfeboat, but they were re-
pulsed each time by the breakers, and al
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 Wlthih such
short distance of tine shore, and pushed
the boat higher up on the beach,
The body of the first sailor washed
ashore was taken to tho life saving station
and it was soon followed by another.
Some of those who touched this body
when it was thrown up from tho surf said
that life was not extinct, but all efforts at
resuscitation proved .fruitless, 1t was gen,
orally surmised that the first body washed
| in 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.
| The names of the lost sailors follow: S.
! f. Arey, captain, Maiden, Mass. A. e.
Davis, first mate, Maiden, Mass; l.. A
Maddox, second mate Cambridge, Mass :;
seamen John Neiber, Albert Lowe, r o.
| Anderson, Victor Strachen, Oscar Oscar
and Antonio Aucyanich.
| Captain Arey leaves widow and three
| children, residing In Maiden. Mate Davis
| and Second Mate Maddox each leave o
| wife and one child.