The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-01-22
LOST IN VIEW OF LAND.
sETEN my. wOuIN IND 4 cum
DROWNED orr long ISLAND.
Life savers Sent Out Three Lines, But
They Gould Not he Secured-Went
Down with the Eoremast.

QUOGUE, l.. j. Jan. 2l-The three
mastcd schooner Nahum Chaplin, Captain
Arey OF Rockland. Me. from Baltimore.
for Boston, with coal, was lest within
three hundred yards OF the shore at
this place early this morning and her
crew OF nine men persisted miserably
within sight Of hundreds Of men and wo-
men. who could DO nothing to help them
DROWNED IN SIGHT OF SHORE
The vessel went ashore here at 4 o'clock.
For three hours she pounded up higher
and higher upon the hard sandy beach.
Then with a crash went 10 pieces and one
By one the nine persons on her who could
be plainly seen clinging TO her rigging
were engulfed with tho wrcckng and
died IN sight Of those on shore.
lt was raining hard when the Chaplin
came ashore. The surf was unusually
high, and the waves beat IN upon the
beach with great fury
Tho storm was al its worst. when the
wreck occurred.
The villagers say that IL was the worst
storm that part OF Long Island has known
In years
The patrol from the lifo-saving stations
were on their beats. when the vessel
struck Ii was the work Of but few
moments for the patrol 20 give the sigma
TO the station TO which IL belonged and IN
"a few moments at the most the life-saV-
ing crew was on its way to the place.
their cannon and Hfe-boats pounding over
the beach with the men pushing and tug
ging at them and donning their life pre-
servers and oiskins ass they ran
BY the time they had reached the spot
nearest tho vessel. the alarm had reach
ed the village. and dozens Of town-iolk
had gathered 10 watch the work of the
crew. and 10 help If possible, too.
LINES ALL LOST.
At first the lifc-savors built n fire on
the beach. and then they placed signal
TO let those on the ship know that they
were about TO send them rope At That
time. only the dun outlines OF the vessel
could be made out but later II began
TO get a little brighter. and the crew
of the vessel could Doe made out clneing
10 her rigging. a rope was then hred
from the mortar. It struck the vessel,
hung for a second across her yards. but
then it slipped away and fell into the sea.
Then another rope was fired. This time
the rope landed safe and secure in the
rigging. The men on the vessel managed
TO secure il. but could not make it fast 10
the vessel. This rope was lost. as was
third that was sent out a short time
later. The men on the vessel could catch
the ropes. but they could not secure them
TO tho schooner.
The life savers and those on the beach
could make out nine persons in the rig
ging Six were cliuging TO the foremost
rigging and three men were ON the jb-
boom.
BOAT COULD NOT BE LATNCHED
Several attempts were made 10 launch
a boat but the sea was so terrific that
1t was nothing but death 10 dare venture
out i'm such "a sea. and the boats could not
pass the first breaker.
Finally the vessel began 10 sink. and
a huge wave carried one Of tho men of
the jibboom and later the others were
swept away. The Six clnging 10 the rig
gine Of the foremost had been safe mp %
this time. but the masts began 10 Nhirl
around. and iu "a few minutes the mizzon-
mast came down with crash. and 40 the
same moment "a cry from the six persons
I'm the rigging of the foremost told those
on the beach Il was an over
I'm a few moments great quantities OF
wreckagc began 10 come ashore
At the last moment 10 was seen that
two of those who were clncing 10 the
rigging of the foremost were not men. as
had been supposed. but that one was WOO
man and the other was % child.