Evening journal., 1899-08-28
LOSS OF THE PRISCILLA
Her Captain is Well-k4 own
ia Wilmington.
sHIpwREOKED SAILORS ARRIVE

sHIpWRBOKED SAILORS ARRlVBI
AND TELL THE STORY OF THE
WRECK or THE UNLUCKY
BRIGANTINE - MISS MARION
SCOTS LUCKY ESCAPE FROM
DROWNING.
Captain Benjamin Springsteen, of
the barkentine Priscilla, which was
wrecked during the recent hurricane,
is a relative of James b. Scott, of No.
$50 Madison street, this city.
A niece of Mr.. Scott, Miss Marion
Scott was about to sail to Rio Jane
iro, on the ill-fated Priscilla, when
she took her last voyage, but changed
her mind at the last moment, and
came to visit her uncle, and lucky
enough was her decision, as she had a
narrow escape from probable death.
A Baltimore paper contains the fol-
lowing account of the disaster:
Eight wretched, half-clad, crippled
mariners Of the ill-fatsd Baltimore
barkentine Priscilla, lost last Thurs
day, on Gull Shoals, eighteen miles
north Of Cape Hatteras, reached this
city this morning by way of Norfolk
Captain Benjamin Springsteen, No
2O3S Cough street, the Priscilla's
commander, lies in a critical condition
at the Gull Shoals life-saving station,
wounded in the breast and side by
floating wreckage His wife and lit
tie 14-year-old son, Elmer, iie buried
side by side in the sand on the beach,
and the life-savers are looking out for
the bodies of William Springsteen, his
son, "a years old, who was mate of the
vessel, and little 15-year-old Fitzhugh
Lee Goldsborough. son of Mrs Mary S.
Goldsborough, Of No. II East Eager
street. who was a passenger. The Car
olina beach for miles is strewn with
the wreckage, of the Priscilla, and
with barrels of flour. casks of salt
meat, kegs of lard and butter and
otker portions Of her cargo The YES
sci herself has been battered into
fragments. and scattered among the
wreckage. The only part remaining
is the poop deck and a portion of the
stern on which the survivors drifted
ashore.
The Priscilla. one Of the finest YES
sells Of the c. Morton Stewart feet
sailed from here on Saturday, August
u. with a general cargo. valued al
S32,S14 On Monday the 14th, the
barkentine passed out to sea and stood
away to the eastward under full sail
before a pleasant breeze. Toward
evening the wind freshened n bit and
by midnight, was blowing quite hard
with the vessel scurrying along before
it under reduced sail. Before dawn the
wind had greatly increased, in vio'
lence, and when the day finally broke
was blowing with hurricane force from
the eastward.
Throughout the day the wind in
creased in violence. and the vessel be
gan rearing and pitching about like
lfrightened horse. kife lines wer'
stretched and two men had all thel
could manage to handle the wheel an'
keep the barkentine's head to tn
seas.
STRUCK ON THE SHOALS.
Steadily the vessel drifted towar'
the reefs. and despite all that he
} struggling crew could do. she struck ol
I Gull Shoals at o'clock THURSDAY
night. Ten minutes afterward sh
broke into three pieces. Mrs. Spring
steen was washed overheard by a Di
sea that broke over the vessel, and he
son leaped over after her. Neither wa
seen again. Little Elmer Springstee
was doubtless drowned in the cabin
and the Goidsborough lad was neve
seen after the vessel struck. Captain
Springsteen, the second mate. tn
steward and six seamen clung to tn
after portion Of the wreck uAtil
O'Clock next morning, when it drifte
ashore and they were dragged out q
/ the surf by the life-savers and carrie
p more dead than alive to the life-savin
. station. A broken spar had Stable
the captain in the breast and side an
not a man had escaped blows at shol
e intervals.
t CARING FOR THE SURVIVORS.
The survivors will be sent to the Ma
rine Hospital for treatment c. MOI
ton Stewart met the men at his ohiC
in the O'Donnell building and symp'
thized with them, giving orders th'
: no expense be spared to make thel
t, comfortable. John Stewart. Jr., h
son, will leave for Norfolk t0-nigl
from which place he will go to Gu
u Shoals to bring Captain Springstee
n home The survivors of the wrecl
e besides the captain, are Second Ma
II Frank Mason Steward, William Hei
derer, Seamen Alexander Van Restoi
u John Evans, Bernhart Rasmusse
Carl Peterson, Philip Hallett and Al
drew Larsen.
Captain Springsteen is one of u
best known masters in the Rio trad
u and hoe rnodo a nt1u,har nf record mas