Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-02-19
Fears That Party Have Per.
ished of Cold or Starvation.
STAUNCH TUGS TO THE RESCUE
Frozen In the Brond Waterfall Rev.
cue Made Nome TOO Soon Many
tnrn Abandoned nud Driftin. TO
Sea- Numerous Vessels in Distress
OId Dominion Aground Other
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free. from ice, and the sailing vessels
are still coming in for shelter. Among
those which we're towed in from the
Bay and Hampton Roads were the fine
new four-masier schooner Z. :. Gid
den. Captain Fales. Tampa TO Balti-
more: the barkentine Priscilla, Captain
Springsteen. Rio Janc.ro 10 Baltimore.
and the British bark ST. James. from
Hong Kong to Baltimore. The latter
may load here.
The American steamer 5. 7. Morgan.
Captain Anthony, towing barge.
came in yesterday morning.
Stories of collision. OF abandoned yes
sells. of lost anchors, OF leakage result
ing from being cut in by ice, of drift
ing helpiessly in the ice pack. of freez-
ing. starving and suffering from eS-
haustion are coming in almost hourly.
ana the late storm will long he rcmem-
bered by the suffering and loss IL has
caused.
WITHOUT FOOD OR FUEL.
Three men. who had neither food nor
fuel for three days. were taken from
q barge by Captain James Townsend
and Mr.. Joseph Anderson, of Atlantic
City Ward. yesterday. The barge was
lying below Lambert's Point, and was
stuck in the ice. The men We're en-
ployed by the dredging company that
is deepening INC hIToor' 'rr'7t str-Ft-eh
the barge. When taken from the
barge they were in deplorable condi-
tion-weak from hunger. and numb
from the cold. Captain Townsend and
Mr. Anderson brought the men ashore
and gave them food. after which they
were sent to Newport News TO the
dredging company. They were ms hap
ply as three larks when they saw rescue
at hand. and said they would always
remember Captain Townsend and Mr..
Anderson. who saved them from being
starved or frozen to death
NOTING PROTEST.
Yesterday three vessels masters
noted protest with Captain George f.
Phillips and one With Major Hardy
Hcndrcn, marine no;Arics.
These were the masters OF the bargcs
Pactolus and Montana. and the
schooners Oliver $. Barrett, and the
Georgia Clark, each OF which had his
tale Of woe to tell of ice pack. rough
weather &c. The Oliver S. Barrett
had shifted her cargo of ice, which had
ground itself 10 pieces and was prac-
tically adrift in the hold.
The barges Pactolus and Montana
had each been partially cut in. and
had the caullling OF their seams loosen
ed and were leaking, as was noted In
yesterdays Issue.
MAKING HAY.
The harbor tugs are reaping n rich
harvest in towing in distressed craft.
one of them being reported yesterday
as netting si,545 for her days work,
while others ranged all the way from
$3.50 upwards
The schooner Young Brothers, re-
ported in yesterdays issue as ashore
off Boush Bluff. was yesterday morning
fionted and towed to Lambert's Point
by the tug Hercules, having sustained
no serious damage.
The schooner John X. Sou:hers. Bal
timore to Boston. was towed in by the
Triton, as was also the Jennie L.
Thomas. Savannah to Baltimore. both
captains fearing that their vessels
would he carried out 10 sea by the ice.
y REASONABLE FEAR
That this was no foolish fear was
shown yesterday by the numerous re-
ports of captain who had seen numbers
of small craft fishing boats and slanps-
small schooners and boats abandoned
and helpless drifting with the ice out
to sea. through the Capes 1t Is
thought that most of these craft were
caught by the storm and took refuge
near shore, but were frozen in by the
ice and their crews lily provisioaed ana
without fuel, were forced to abandon
them, which they did by walking ashore
on the solid ice. Since then they have
been unable 10 get to their vessels
again and the ice pack has swept them
out.
THE YACHT DIME.
in the ice. none in this vicinity oc-
casicned so much conjecture ana in
none IS !iVe!ieT interest m0nTTesT0d
than in the yacht Dixie. belonging to
Rev. Thomas Dixon, of Ccbh's Island.
which. hen last heard from, was
somewhere between Cubb's and Hog
Islands. with Rev. pixou's family
aboard. insullicently provlsioued and
tueied TO stand Il prolonged siege. To
broad waters as thc marshes be-
tween the Atlantic island chain ana
the mainland of the Eastern
Shore counties are called. the
lonely desolat!on of an enforced
stay In those sounds and inlets.
and the unlikelhood of any one reach
ing party so situated for rescue,
and the small chance of their getting 70
relief or shelter. is so apparent that
the thought Of any human being
frozen in, far from shore on those
waters sends a thrill of horror ana pity
through every nerve OF their being.
TUGS TO THE RESCUE.
It Will be remembered that Mrs.
Dixon and two children. lady and
gentleman guest are aboard the Dixie
and great fears are entertained by all
who know the region. that they have
persisted with cold ana hunger
The tugs Il. T. Williams and Curtin
both staunch fine tucs OF light drauGh;
nave been chartered b. the Alcrritts
ana sent 10 the rescue. and it IS hoped
me party may be found at an early