The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-15
LOST.
With / 4 Members of the Crew
of the Lawrence
Wrecked Off Hilton Head Near
Port Royal.
10 TRACE is FOUND
Of the Missing by Searching
Parties Sent Out.
Remainder of the Crew Rescued
Badly Frozen.

Savannah, Ga, Feb. 1.-two Efeboats
laden with men from the wreck of the
steamship William Lawrence are still
missing and it is feared that the four
teen men who embarked in these boats
have been lost
The steamer Lawrence of the Merchants
and Miners transportation company ply
ing between Baltimore and Savannah,
struck the rocks off Hilton Head ISL
and, S. c., near the Port Royal bar, on
Saturday morning. She is now total
wreck.
The crew stood by her for nearly TWEEN
ty-four hours, but when the ship began
to break up Captain Willis gave the order
to take to the boats. The sea was run
ming very high, a gale was blowing and it
was bitter cold. The captain was the
last man to leave the ship. and 1t is said
that he chose the poorest of the boats.
Boat No. 1, in charge of Second Assistant
Engineer Morrissey, with seven men. made
Paris island, where the government naval
station is situated, on Sunday morning.
Boat No. 2, in charge of Second Officer
r. A. Beale, contained. besides Beale Chief
Engineer Roach, Steward Frank Dingle,
First Cook Harry Kelly, Quartermaster
Oscar Bowler and Seamen Jack Mont
gomery and Charles L. Green. These un-
derwent a terrible experience. They found
it impossible to make land, and as dark
ness fell on Sunday night the cold became
more and more intense. They were be-
numbed, wet, hungry and exhausted me
fFb@ e y sP b yiD Mas Wnds BS lucky ac
cident they located the sea buoy OIL Port
forf Tna ana ed to catch to it. They made
it fast to the boat and spent the nlght
morning by a pilot boat and taken aboard.
Boat No. 8, Under. First Mate l. e Hoo
per, and Boat No. 4, under Captain Willis,
Hooper's boat IS First Engineer Lee Har-
per and in the captains boat is Quarter-
masters Assistant Andrew Burgess. The
names of the others cannot be ascertained.
Agent Carolan a t this PLACE sent the tugs
wreck The Cynthia returned late last
night and reported that the Lawrence is
broken in two and that nothing could be
seen or heard from the two missing boats.
The passenger steamer C1fton, en- route
boat having on board the rescued crew
the Clifton and brought to this city. The
men We're in a pitiabIe condition. Chief
Engineer Roach; Steward Dingle and Sec
frozen stiff and their hands were FROST
bitten. Three may lose one or both feet.
hands and feet. though not so badly
the three men named. No story could be
gotten from them on account of their suf-
The wreck lies within few miles of the
spot where the passenger steamer city OF
! GERMANIC WILL Ill. COME Up.
Germanic, which had her coal bunkers,
fire, rooms and engine rooms flooded last
board coal chute open, is resting easily on
the muddy bottom in her slip at the foot
Submerged twenty-six feet at the bow and
twenty-eight feet at the stern. A wreck
pumps I5tii are put to Work the steamer will
begin to rise. The damage done will not
the machinery viii be necessary. 0iii's %
THE PARIS GETS IN.
steamer Paris has arrived from Soufhamp-
ton after a most tempestuous voyage. The