The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-03-05
ADRIFT FOR EIGHTEEN DAYS.
Ten Men Endure the PerfIS of a Ter
riiic storm, NJ sea.

4. AsAitEbfe- me fEFlES OF q
rifle Storm nt Sea.
NEW YORK. March 5.-Teu men who
spent eighteen days adr5ft in a storm
wrecked, wGteriogged schooner. that was
driven one thousand miles from her
southern course to the northward, have
landed IN this port. and their story of pri-
Natlons, sunerings. and mental anguish
Is IN many respects without parallel in
marine history. The crew consisted Of
captain PecRwith and nine sailors who
sailed on the American schooner George
w Bailey. from Baltimore. January -.
bound for Bahia Brazil, with cargo of
coal They were rescued from the i'm
periled ship on Monday morning at s
o clock by Capt. W. W. MINES and a vol
unteer crew of the steamship Bremen
haven, from Antwerp, and landed at
Point Breeze, on the SchuyIkilI River.
yesterday afternoon.
The landing of the men seems ike the
bringing back to life of the dead. What
seems 50 inhuman is the story told by
Captain PecIlwith Of sighting. day after
day. great liners plying the course ira
versed by steamers TO and from American
ports to European shores, without receiv-
ing response to signals Of distress dis
played from the masthead of his helpless
NA~AAl- 4IAt IDItIilEILdA Ell GtIli- none loo
soon, for the schooner was being tossed
and almost submerged by the mountainous
waves piled one over another by the hur-
ricane winds. 1t was through such a sea
as that which enveIoped the great liner
Teutonic a few days ago that the schoon-
er drifted
The remarkable course of the George w.
Bailey would indicate that she was
caught in a great centre Of storms about
cape Hatteras, buffeted about after her
rudder was carried away. and forced out
by the waves. giving battle TO each other
the snip was blown back opposite Cape
Henry, from which she first emerged on
her southern journey. then carried north
ana drHted towards the banks of New
! foundland- 1t was about 20J miles south
east of Sable Island, just 900 miles from
where trouble was first encountered, and
about 800 miles north from the port from
winch she originally started on a south
ern journey that the rescue was effected
shipping men are unable to understand
the remarkable course of the schooner
except that after being caught in q centre
OF storms she was forced, as by a ty-
phoon, to the nOrthward- This action is
most remarkable for the reason that all
craIt coming from the south at present
experience great difficulty because of the
teTrihc hurricane winds and high seas
driving them back 1t would naturally be
supposed that vessel going south would
be caught in the wake of the mad rush
of this storm and carried south with the
greatest speed. All craft coming from
the south have for days been delayed, and
their coming impatiently awaited Like
the George W Bailey. the fate of many
craft bound south is unknown. and many
ANXIOUS shipping men are awaiting in
telllgence from vessels long overdue and
somewhere being buffeted about by winds
and mountainous seas.
The terrible ordeal of the crew of the
George W Bailey began after about five
days out from Baltimore Good Roadway
| was being made south. for the schooner
was a StaRch one Flowing into the
trough of the great storm raging the
vessel was battered about. but seemed
capable to care for herself. The first Sc
riOus trouble came with che rudder being
/ temporarily disabled, and finally was car
ried away
The schooner was provided with a Jury
rig, an inlprovised rudder, bat instead of
saving the vessel it had the contrary eff
feet. and the great timbers began to
pound the stern until the vessel sDrang
leak The jury rig had to be cut away to
save the vessel from imm ediate destruc-
ton. so violent and fOrcible was the sea
When the Bremerhaven came within
sight of the distressed crew signals We're
plainly visible on the George w Bailey
/ The letters N D. We're displayed. in
/ dlcatlng: i must abandon vessel These
/ were quickly lowered, and replaced By the
letters p F" the code reading. Want
boats Immediately"
Captain MINES and his crew were on
deck and volunteer corps vas quickly
secured TO go TO the rescue of the bag
gard. Wan-fdced men Of the sinking
schooner. Some knowledge Of the fury of
the storm may obtained from the
statement of both the captain of the res
cued schooner and of the good ship Brem-
erhaven, when they positively state that
four hours were spent in rescuing he
men from the wrecked vessel The first
boat put over from the chooner was i'm
mediately dashed to pieces. and the sec
ond met the same fate The third was
safely launched only after the crew of
the great oil tanker cast barrel after bar
rel of oil upon the raging waters The
men We're rubbed and given hot drinks.
and. having had five days in which to
recuperate before they reached shore yes
terday they seemed to be rapidly recov-
ring
When abandoned the schooner had eIev-
en- feet of water in her hold and would
/ likely sink in about twelve hours. The
vessel was built at Bath. Ne. in 1890. had
four mastS. was 1872 feet long, Il feet
beam, and had draft of * feet OF water.