Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-22
SHIP AND CREW co DOWN
Marine Disaster Near New York City
Caused by a Storm
BEYOND THE REACH OF THE uFE-sAVERS
Heavy Surf Prevents the Launching OF
the Bonts-Crcw, Composed OF
Nine, All Lust-nodics
Washed Ashore.

NEW YORK, Jan 2l.--The thrce-mastcd
schooner Nahum Chaplin OF Rocklond, Nc"
coal laden from Baltimore for Boston, went
ashore mean Quogue, l.. L.. early this morn
ing and its entire crew, consisting Of nine
men, were lost in sight of hundreds OF pco-
pie. who had gathered on the beach, but
were powerless to render assistance.
The vessel went ashore at 4;S0 a. m. At
that hour there was a heavy rain falling and
while 1t was not foggy, there was a mist
sufficient to make objects very indistinct at
distance OF 200 yards. The wind was blow
ing from the southeast at velocity of about
thirty miles an hour and a surf was rolling
upon the beach. The vessel pounded over
two hours after 1t first struck, and the
waves drove 1t gradually inshore and finally
It went to pieces, crumbling before the fury
of the mighty waves as If 1t were an egg
she'll
About o'clock Captain Charles Norman
Of the Quogue Life Saving station assisted
by his men, brought their apparatus from
the house to a point just opposite the
wrecked vessel but when they shot out
their life line, 1t was too late to be OF any
service. The sailors, who from the mo
mont that one OF the patrolmen had sighted
tho schooner were in the rigging had
dropped off one by one into the seethng
waters, and soon after one of the bodies,
that of big. swarthy Swede, was washed
ashore The life savers worked manfully;
their first line fred 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 II was also lost. third
attempt was also Intellectual and then the
crowd of villagers who gathered on the beach
saw the last of the men fall from the
rigging and disappear in the surf, which at
this time was running unusually high.
The life-saving crew made an attempt to
launch a lie boat, but they were repulsed
each time by the breakers and, although
tho bystanders encouraged the brave fellows
in every possible manner, the hardy men
had to desist. half frenzed by the appalling
sight of their fellows being drowned within
such a short distance of the shore, and
pushed the boat high up on the beach
There were in all nine men seen on the
ill-fated vessel. 1t was generally surmis5d
that the first body washed in was either
that of the captain or first mate. Three
schooner went to pieces. Up to noon, when
the fury of the waves had abated some
what no other bodies were sighted. There
is no doubt that all on board perished.
The Nahum Chhpin was three-masted
schooner, built at Rockland. Me, in 1882,
1t registered 567 tons and was l45 feet long,
80 feet beam and 15i6 feet deep.
The principal owners of the schooner
Nahum Chaplin, reported lost, were Peter
Mcintyre G. Co., of Boston. Captain 5. II.
Arey, who commanded the vessel, was
part owner The crew of the schooner, nine
in number, were shipped in Boston last No
vemher The names are; S. Il. Arey, cap
tain Maiden, Mass; a. E. Davis. hrst mate,
Maiden MISS; l.. A. Maddox, second mate,
Cambridge, Mass; seamen, John Ieber. AL
bert Lowe, r. o. Anderson, Victory strachen,
Oscar Oscar, Antonio Aucyanich The resi-
dences of the latter are not known.