Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-02-16
REST OF LAWRENCE CREW FOUND
They Suffered Hardly Less Than Wen
I'm Mate BeaIe's Boat.

SAVANNAH. GA, February l5.-EYery
member of the crew of the wrecked
steamer William Lawrence was saved,
but only after the greater number OF
them had suffered terrible hardships. The
tugs Cambria and Cynthia came in this
evening from the sea Islands OF south
Carolina. bringing with them Captain Al.
Willis and thirteen men. constituting
those who had been missing since Sunday
morning. when the ship was abandoned
i'm the breakers off Port Royal bar. With
Captain Willis were First-Oflcer H. h.
Hooper. First-Assistant-E Engineer Horace
HoOper. Quartermaster 4. Bergerson, ana
Seamen Paul Quantz, William Hauntz
Michael Hayes, Thomas Bolin, Jake
Nawdry. Frank White, Jean Baptlste'
Charles a. Baldorf, and Frank Fuller
Evils Nleeshower, d Hebrew stow
away from Baltimore.
..... mI.n Agent Carolan on board
the Cambria, left the city at daybreak
this morning, and searched every island
and inlet nOrthwa.d until the castaways
were found. At o'clock the party were
discovered on Hunting Island and taken
on board the Cambria.
Captain Willis and his men suffered but
little less than the crew of Mate Beale's
as told in last nights dispatch. They lett
the ship at 9 O'Clock on Sunday morning.
After twelve hours at sea, in binding
freezing gale the two boats under the
captain and the first officer made land
on Caper's Island, a desOlate and bare
little sand-spit. In Bleaching both of the
boats were smashed and the men were
thrown into the surf Though almost ex-
hausted and numb, they managed 10
scramble beyond the reach Of the waves
What little brackish drinking water they
had was lost, together with the biscuits
long since salt-soaked, which had been
brought off the wreck. There was no
fresh water and extremely little fuel on
the island, and no shelter in any shape.
SAVED FROM FREEZING.
The captain had a few matches In a
metallic box in his pocket. They were
| found to be dry. Tearing the seats out OF
the wrecked boats, after much coaxlng, d
fire was made in the lee of sand dune;
The boats were OF iron, or they would
also have been burned. The limited fuel
| saved the men from freezing 10 death
The men lowered over the little Dlaze
/ all during the sleet and snoW-stOrm or
| Sunday night and Monday, when the meI-
| curry was marking 8 to 10 degrees ABOVE
zero. on Tuesday morning one OF the
| boats was temporarily repaired ana
both crews got into ii to reach Port Royal.
| They had been without food since leaving
| the Lawrence, early Sunday morning, ana
| without water since Sunday AFTERNOON
After painful efforts they reached hunt
| ing Island. Some soldiers are stationed
| there. These took them In and fed ana
warmed them. This morning the cast
| aways were about to set out Tor Port
| Royal. in their patched boat, when the
| Cambria found them.
! Captain Willis says that at the time
| the ship struck the weather was so thick
| that ne could not see half the length OF
| the ship. He says, also, that something
| was wrong With his compass, and that
| the ship was somewhat out Of her course
Captain Willis has been in the service
| of the company for twenty years.
LOSS OF FEET AND EARS.
At the hospital tonight 1t was learned
| that Chief Engineer Roach would lose
| one foot and all ofNhe toes of the other
| that Steward Blngle would lose both feet
! and that two seamen would lose one foot
| each. They were frozen in officer Beale s
boat. Several Of the men may lose one
/ or both ears.