The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-22

Quogue, L. l., Jan. H.-The three
masted schooner Nahum Chaplin, Captain
Arey OF Rocllland. Ne, from Baltimore
for Boston, with coal, was lost within 800
yards of shore at this place early this
morning, and her crew of nine men per-
lshed miserably within sight Of hundreds
OF men and women who could do nothing
10 help them. The vessel went ashore
here at o'clock. For hours she pounded
higher and higher upon the hard sandy
beach Then. with a crash, she went to
pieces, and one by one the sailors on her,
who could be plainly seen clinging TO her
rigging, were engulfed with the wreck
age ana died within hailinS distance OF
the HIesaVinR crews on shore. II was
raining hard when the Chaplin came
ashore 1t was not exactly foggy, but the
ram was thick, and a sort of white mist
SnVeloDed the face of the ocean and hid
from view even the tops of the huge
waves as they came tumbling in. stiff
gale was blowing from the northeast. The
SURF was unusually high, and the waves
psst upon the beach with great fury. The
storm was at its worst when the wreck
occurred. The villagers say that it was
tne worst storm that part of Long Island
has known for years.
The patrol from the lifeSaving stations
were on their beats. Suddenly, above the
roar. came faint, shrill cry. full of
meaning to the practiced ear of the pa
troll for it was the wailing of the fog
through the darkness flashed a vivid light,
the glare of a rocket. For an instant, the
white mist disappeared, as though the
curtain was thrust aside, and coming
madly before the gale the men on the
beach saw three-maSted schooner, her
sails in shreds. beating in hard upon the
beach not 400 yards from shore.
STRUCK THE BAR
She struck the bar and then careened
over on one side. 1t was the work of but
few moments for the patrol to give the
signal to the station to which they be-
longed. and in few moments the life
saving crew was on its way to the place.
A rope was fired from the mortar. The
men on the vessel could catch the ropes.
but they could not secure them to the
schooner. The storm was at its worst,
and the masts of the vessel were swing
ing to and fro, striking the surf almost
at every dip. She was. at daybreal1, with
III $50 yards of the shore, and beating in
further every minute. The lite-savers
and those on the beach could make out
nine men in the rigging. Six of the men
were clinging to the foremost rigging ana
three men were on the jib boom.
The hfe-savers did all in their power
to get assistance out to the doomed men,
but Il was Impossible to do much, ana
finally at few minutes before o'clock,
1t was apparent TO all that the end was
near at hand.
The vessel had been sinking; her decks
were all under water, only the masts
and jib boom end. TO which three OF the
men were clinging. could be seen with
every wave the men on the Jlp DOOM
were buried in the sea and hidden from
the sight of the watchers on the beach.
AT last q huge wave came along, and
when it had passed over the Jlb boom
one man was missing. He was never
other waves swept over the ship, and
five minutes later another man was swept
from the lib boom, and but one man
could be seen clinging to the spar lie
held on to the last. In a few minutes
the naiZzen mast came down with
crash and at the same moment cry
from the six persons in the rigging OF
the foremost told those on the beach
it was all over. In a few moments great
quantities of wreckage began TO come
ashore
mn 10 that time, but on d piece OF
wreckage that came ashore, her name
was made out At the last moment 1t
was seen that two of those who We're
cIinging to the rigging of the foremost
were not men. as had been supposed, but
that one was a woman and the other
caild- 1t was supposed that the woman
xUaS the wife OF the captain OF the
ecbooner and that the child was theirs.
The W,reckage showed that the lost
schooner was the Nahum Chaplin. The
Chaplin was a vessel of 500 tons burden,
and belonged in Rockland, Me. She was
commauded by Captain Arey- ABOUT
an hour after the foremost went down
a mans body was washed ashore with
tho Ureckage From the dress II was
e1,rrnised that he was either the captain
o.. the mate of the lost vessel The papers
81 tha vessel We're washed ashore soon
ofter and the beach now for miles IS
streWn with the wreckage OF the vessel