The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-03-05
Captain and Grew of The Steamer GIadoWe
Saved from the Angry Atlantic.
BLOWN ASHORE IN A TREMENDOUS GALE
Tho Wind Was Rigging Mt Finy>Six
Miles nm Hour Elmo Work of Lie
Saving Crews The Brcechcs Buoy
: in Usr-Iho Wreck Many Dc saved
Fears for the Underwater.

With u terrible hurricane behind her,
the wind driving across the angry
hour. the staunch British two-mastcd
tramp steamer GlcadOwe plunged
ashore about II O'Clock yesterday morn
ing two miles south OF the Cape Henry
lighiship.
She struck and stranded on almost
the ideatical spot where The Norwegian
| bark Dictator WAS shattered to pieces
in April six years ago and many of
her crew drowned. including the cap
| tnin's wife ana l:ttle boy.
| The GiCaiowc II strong vessel Of
l.3Sl tCas. With Captain Harris and
81 crow CT twenty-,hrec men she left
Delaware Brcaitwatcr Thursday, In
| tending to come 10 Norfolk, She had
hardly gotten well out to sea when
she ran into the teeth of the heavy
gale that WAS sweeping up the coast.
H. was impossible to bring the vessel
TO in such storm and Captain Harris
held her to her course, hoping that
fhe storm would abatc and he could
make the shelter within the Virginia
Cares. But the gale only Increased in
Jury, ana when dayliGh. broke the ship
was beyond the control of men and at
the mercy OF the elements. By 10
ollv fyh,,r,cor itrN NJ VIC
ra,,,bi ~. ,nI -. ' az =. ~. We
shell against the shore.
She was almost Immediately sighted
ny the Patrol from the Cape Henry
Lile-Saving Station, who Immediately
notified his station. The crew Mt Sea
Tuck was also notified ana in an in
crcGibly short time Uncle Sans brave
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The work of rrecro ht..on ,n1 ~, 4
O'Clock the last man C<,n,,tn I1orr,.
was safe on shore drnnchad heif,
drowned, a sorry,ookinr lot I'M inf
nitely better off than they had been n
few hours before.
b There were MANY THRILLING incidents
before the rescue was complctel and
1t is little less than Il miracle that half
OF the shin wrecked s,ilors were moi
drowned while being hauled ashore in
the brceches buoy. Capt Holmes son
was struck on the head by pulley,
knocked scnseless and almost drowned.
The ship wrecked men were taken 70
the two lfc-saving STATIONS and made
as comfortable as the limited uccom-
modations ana means at the disposal
or The crews would admit They VIII
be sent 10 Norfolk and thence 10 phila-
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