Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-02-19
THE RESCUE
OF THE DlXONS
How They Escaped Freezing
and Starvation.
PERlLOUS JOURNEY ON ICE
Tales of Terrible suffering Schoon>
ers md sioops Driven 10 Sea by
Drifting Ice = Five Bodies Float
Ashore mt Smiths Island Arrival
OF Overdue steamers Admiral
Dcmcy FIoated.
(By Telegraph to virginia-pnot)

Baltimore. Feb. 1S.-A special from
Mrs. Thomas Dixon. Jr. and party ar
rived at the formers home in this city
this afternoon at 5 o'clock, after a
week of thrilling and dangerous expe-
rience aboard the yacht Dixie. whcih
still lays frozen up in the ice at Rouse's
Hole channel. BroadwateT, near Hog Is
land, in charge of the captain.
a PERILOUS TRIP.
Confronted with the alternative of
freezing and starving to dean aboard
the yacht or wading two miles across
the ice and snow, where assistance
could reach them, they decided this
morning to make the start for the
main land. The trip was a pcrllous
and dangerous one. Mrs. Dixon and
Mrs. Ellsworth, of New York, broke
through the ice several times, but were
pulled out b. the attendants. The
crew of the life saving station finally
succeeded in reaching them and
brought the party safely to the shore,
where they took n special train. The
party consisted OF Mrs. Thomas Dixon,
Jr, and son and Mrs Ellsworth, Of
Richmond county. n. V, and the crew
d1lQ servants.
SAVED FROM STARVING.
The party were saved from starving
by one of the life-saving crew walking
out on the ice and taking u supply or
provisions from the station. For fuel
they used the oars, decoys, small boats.
partitions-in fact. everything movc-
able on the yacht. The only thing re-
manning was the masts. which would
have been used to-day. had they not
succeeded in getting off.
Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., is in Iowa
on n lecturing tour, where he has been
for week.
CARRIED OUT TO SEA.
Baltimore, Feb. ls.-A special dis
patch from Cape Charles, Va, to the
Baltimore Herald, says:
t1fty oyster sloops and schooners
nave been carried out to sea by drift
Ing Ice from Magothys Bay. 1t is be-
Ieved many are manned and the
crews may suffer from exposure and
hunger. Tugs will be sent 10 overhaul
the drifting vessels.
STORY OF TERRIBLE SUFFERING
Charleston. S. c., Feb. 1S.-Nr. w.
l.; Wilson, of Bishopville reports a ter,
IlpIe story OF suffering, which had
taken place at Robbins on the Pee Dee
river, in Darlington county. Thursday
q negro man named Ned Bostic found
that the water of the river was rising
around his house.
He got an old boat and placing his
Family, consisting of his wife Emily
and his children, Irene Ben. Rollins and
Burrell. in 1t, he tried to reach n point
OF safety. AS he neared the bridge on
the Wilmington, Columbia and Angus
ia railroad, however, the boat went to
pieces and the entire party was drown
ed. The bodies were caught under the
Ice and were not discovered until VS.
terday.
DROWNED AT CAPE CHARLES.
Baltimore. Md, February 1S.-A spe-
clal to the Herald from Cape Charles,
Va, says:
Shelly Banks. an old colored man
who drives delivery wagon between
here and Capevile, was found frozen
TO death in n snow drift about two
miles from his home.
Five bodies, two whites and three COL
Ored. fioated ashore on Smiths Island
to-day. 1t Is thought the men were
trying to get ashore on the lee from
come boat and were frozen to death
Savannah. Ga. February 1S.-A spe-