The record-union., 1898-02-24
WRECK OF BRITISH SHIP ASIA
ONLY THREE OF THOSE ON THE
VESSEL SAVED.
Among the Eighteen Who Lost
Their Lives Were the Captains
Wife and Daughter.

PRONINCETOWN (Mass), Feb %
The tugboat Mercury T.. Captain E,v
ans. has arrived here, bringing news
that three men Of the crew of the Brit
ish ship Asia were rescued yesterday.
The men We're taken from piece of
wreckage, on which they had been
floating for twenty-four hours, and
We're greatly exhausted.
The Asia struck on Great Round
Shoal, off Nantucket. during the gale
Monday. and went to pieces. Captain
Dakin of the Asia, with his wife and
daughter, were among those on board
at the time, and are supposed to have
perished 1t is reported that the
body Of the Captains daughter is at
Woods Holl, having been recovered,
with that of man, supposed to have
| been the mate of the vessel
Only three Of those on board the Asia
were saved
Following is a list of those lost: Cap
tain G.. VI. Dakin, Mrs. Dakin, Lena
Dakin, First Mate Thomas Cook, Sec
ond Mate Crosby, James Murray. Mich
ael Doyle, Charles Stone. Frank Walter
Charles Wyna, George Johnson. Charles
Ramba. Charles Williams, Charles Carl
ton. John Fielding, Burnett Burneson,
Alfred Oldbury. Fred Lanchest.
The three men who were rescued were
taken to Hyannis to-day by the United
States steamer AZalea. where they told
the story of the wreck. The ship
struck on the shoal at II o'clock on
Sunday last. After she struck she
! hoated again, and then struck three
times more, and at last the crew were
unable TO get her off in the fierce storm
that prevailed Tremendous seas swept
over the ship, which began to leak, and
at > o'clock Monday morning it became
/ certain that she would soon go to pieces.
An attempt was made TO launch the
boats, but as fast as one was lowered
ii was smashed to pieces against the
vessel until they We're all destroyed.
Captain Dakin then decided to con
struet a raft, but before he could ac-
| compiish anything he was swept over
! beard and drowned First Mate Cock
/ then ordered the crew to prepare to
leave the vessel on any pieces of wreck
age they might be able to lash together
/ Part of the starboard planking of the
deck had been wrenched loose by a tre-
mendouS sea This was torn OFF, and
II was found that it would float with
several persons on it. Mrs. Dakin and
her daughter. in charge of Mate Cook.
James Murray. Michael Doyle. Charles
Stone and Frank Walter. took places
on It, and We're launched from the ship
on a huge biliow.
William F. Smith, Jacob Steburg and
James PAGES, the mer no reached
Hyannis to-day. left the vessel soor.
after on a mass of wreekage. and al
the same time other men under the
direction of Second Mate Crosby were
prepared to commit themselves to the
sea in similar manner.
The raft bearing the three sailors
soon sighted the one on which were
Mate Cook. Mrs. Dakin and her daugh-
ter and the others. and kept il in sight
until dark Monday night
At daylight the next morning they
| had separated
The wreck 10 which the three men
still chung drifted toward Handker-
chief lightship and at 10 o'clock in
the forenoon they were rescued by the
crew OF the vessel
The men viii be cared for by the Brit
ish Consul at Chatham until they are
able to be sent TO their homes