The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-26
STRANDED And DESERTED
The Schooner Knowles Probably
Damaged in a Collision.
Sighted on Atlantic City by Life
Saving Memo Sign of the YES
sefs Crew-The Other Craft May
Have Sunk in the Crash mt Sea.

Have sunk in the Crash Mt Sea.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., April 20
The wreck of the three masted schooner
/ Emma C. Knowles, of Philadelphia,
was sighted this morning about 1O
| O'Clock, with the rising of a fog which
had been hanging thickly over the sea,
she was lying or her port side directly
/ on a line with Young's ocean pier, some
| six miles from shore. There was no
means of determining whether any liv-
| ing being was aboard, owing to the dis
lance. and the several thousand people
on the promenade who saw the low
| lying hull. around which a sea was
breaking. watched with GREATNESS in
/ terest the race between three lifeboats
| from as many different stations as they
moved swiftly through the rolling sea
| toward the Knowles.
The tension of their feelings seemed
to be relieved when the Atlantic city
no lives to succor. Whether the crew
had persisted or not during the night
remains mystery. The hull was dis
covered about the same time by the
lookouts from the Chelsea, South Brig
autine, and local stations.
From the report of Capt Timothy
Parker it appears the Knowles was
wrecked in a collision, but just when
he was unable to determine. The three
masts We're in the hull. and when she
went down her forward sails We're set.
She carried cargo of yellow pine. All
the sails were in strips. They did not
appear to have been torn as the result
Of gale, but by the deckload of lum-
Der becoming tangled in them and the
rigging. The deckhouse was ripped off
and sections of the upper deck were
gone.
Through the gaps came masses of
lumber The two water barrels were
floating at their fastenings, and the bow
anchor was in place. Part of the rail-
ing was gone The booms were all
broken and there were evidences which
indicated collision.
The Knowles was not boarded, owing
to the heavy sea which curled about
the wreck. 1t would have been danger
Gus to have made such a venture The
vessel was newly painted and appeared
to have been recently off the ways.
Captain Parker remained in the vicini-
ty for half an hour and scanned the sea
with a glass, but found no clue to the
fate of the crew. AS the wreck had not
beer reported some apprehension is felt
that the colliding vessel also went
down, and that both crews are lost.
The collision may have occurred with
in the past twenty-fcur hours, or with
in two or three days. Nothing was
brought ashore.
Frank Adams, assistant lighthouse
keeper, says that this morning he saw
a vessel anchored off Brigantine, which
apparently was in distress, but she did
not signal. She was there this after
noon at sunset.
The wreck can be saved by power
full tug. There is enough lumber in her
hold TO pay good salvage. She lies
directly in the path of coasting vessels.
The Knowles had a length of 147 feet
and beam of 81 feet. She was 10 feet
deep. Her gross tonnage register was
617 tons She was built at Morris
town, n. j.
CHARLESTON, S. c., April 25.-The
schooner Emma c. Knowles, reported
as having been wrecked near Atlantic
City, sailed from Charleston for Fall
River, Mass, on April IA. Captain
Rodgers was in command. His crew
numbered about eight and the vessel
was loaded here with 100000 feet of
lumber, The vessel had been a fire.
quent trader at this port. Charleston
shippers had not heard today of the
fate of the crew.