The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-27

are from twelve to fifteen feet above
low water. Sheep, cattle and horses
which were on this land were drowned
and many houses were wrecked. AT
New inlet a big club house was blown
bodily from its foundations and moved
twenty feet The life-saving station
rocked so violently that the crew stood
by the back door, ready TO take to the
boats.
WRECKS ON THE COAST.
"There were several wrecks along the
coast between Chicamacomico and Ocra-
coke, a distance of twenty-six miles,
and the life-saving crews did noble work
in saving life There lis a big three
masted schooner ashore at Kinnakeet
and one ashore at Little Kinnakeet.
The crews of both were rescued by
means of the breaches buoys, operated
by the life savers, who fired a line
from the shore to the vessels. The
schooner Minnie Bergen Is ashore at
Chicamacomico, and her crew of seven
were saved in the same manner.
Near Cults Shoals the schooner
Aaron Reppert went ashore, and only
three out of eight were saved. The
barkentine Priscilla was lost near by,
and ten out of fourteen were saved.
",There are evidences, however, of a
more serious disaster than ,ther OF
these. At Durant's station, near Hat
teras inlet, 800 bales of cotton have
come ashore, together with 200 cords
of oak slaves. The cotton was evidently
shipped from New Orleans. The bows
Of n vessel, believed to be a steamship,
are ashore, bearing the name Agnes.
Two bodies were washed up, one of
them evidently an engineer of steam
ship. We don't know the fate of the
rest of the crew of this ship.
THE Cape Hatteras lightship, on
Diamond Shoals, went ashore at Creed's
Hill station and the crew were saved
in the brooches buoy.
..The Aaron Reppert, when she
struck, let go her anchors at distance
so far from shore that the life sa-
vers could not reach her. They fired
n line to her, but the crew could not
assist in making it fast. When the
vessel went to pieces the crew were
swept overheard. The life savers waded
out into the boiling waters, forming
a living line. and picked up those who
were swept toward the land. IN this
way they took IN eight
EXHIBITION OF HEROISM.
.4The rescue Of the Priscilla's crew
was an exhibition of heroisn. Ras-
mus S. Midget, surfmam No. ! 1t
Cults Shoals station, was the hero. This
man was patrolling the beach, three
miles south of the station. 1t was 3
o'clock in the morning, the hurricane at
its height and the rain falling in such
torrents that light could not be seen
any distance at all
THE surfman, riding along the edge
of the breakers, saw wreckage coming
ashore. He urged his horse ahead, and
pretty soon heard cries for help. lie
went into the water up to his neck, and,
looking seward he saw mass of
wreckage about fifteen feet from the
shore. This was the stern of the bar
kentine Priscilla, and upon 1T were
crouched the then survivors of the
wreck. She had broken in two on the
bar, and the stern had drifted in. The
men on the wreckage were exhausted
and could not help themselves.
SURFIAN SAVED TEN.
"Ihe surfman would wait until a BIZ.
wave receded, when he would follow It
down the beach. At the right moment
one man would jump overheard from the
wreck, the surfman would seize him and
carry him to shore I'm this way he say
ed six. There were four others, howyer,
who were too feeble to drop overheard.
The surfman became holder, and finally
made his way to the wreck and took off
the four. The captain was a very heavy
man, and almost proved too much for tn
rescuer.
"The surfman then left the half-drown-
ed people ON the sand, out of harms
way and sent down two carts, in which
the mariners were brought to shelter,
while he rode back, to the station.
''The captain, Benjamin Spr.ngsteen,
lost his wife and child. A youth named
Fitz Lee Goldsborough, related to Adj
miral Goldsborough, who was a passen-
ger ON the vessel was also lost"