The Jersey City news., 1901-07-20

IurleQ, and the f1rSf mate told those pas
sengers who were below in their bertts to
lie quiet. as 1t would be all right He then
took the yawl, and with some of the crew
went ashore. Directly the second and
third mates, and some of the crew left
in another boat. Then part of the crew
took the long boat, and before they could
get line were carried away by the rising
tide, and swept to the beach, leaving but
five of the crew and captain aboard.
Lower and lower in the auicksands sank
the ship. Higher and higher rose the tide.
Then came roaring. foam crested surge
and broke upon the deck, filling the vessel
with water and drowning those who had
not reached Che deck Then the terrified
people swarrheu up the rigging and out
on the bowsprit.
by this time Captain Allen, with the
crew of No. 3, had their motor planted.
and shot line. 1t missed. Another, and
it caught on the bowspr:t, and was car
ried to the foremast and made fast. The
lifecar was run out and reached the snip.
Captain Hardy ordered two of the crew
TO get in and bail 1t out. He then got In,
in company with some passengers. The
signal was given, and the car was pulled
for the shore, but The line attached to the
ship broke. The car upset and Captain
Hardy and two others were the only ones
saved
Twas now those unfortunate people
commenced to ascend their calvary. Their
cries of misery were appalling. One of
the crew, Jonn Stacy, brave Maine lad,
had stayed by the ship. He lashed many
fast to the rigging and gave every aid
and assistance.
ION the shore the crews of Life-saving
Stations Nos. and had aimed line after
line. which was shot. over to the ship. bur
not one there knew how to fasten 1t. Now
the seas began to bring in the people
washed off the wreck, some dead and
some more or less injured. Chains of men
pulled them out of the surf. AS the waves
were making complete breach over the
deck no boat from the shore could ap-
proach, and so the day wore on.
Now happened strange occurrence
A Mrs Ounce saw her husband and child
wash off and drown. She was soon to be
mother again. The next wave carried
her off, and as she rose she grasped
floating spar. The current carried her up
the beach, just out of the breakers, and
twenty men on the shore followed on.
They could see her rising and falling on
the huge waves, but clinging fast to the
spar with all the energy of despair; up
past now Loeb Arbour, past now Deal Inn
Never before, woman in her condition,
had so wild ride, and for a mile up the
beach the watchers followed on. Then the
current set in shore. Brave Joseph West
said: Boys make a chain and l Will
save the woman He rushed into the
1roo
grasped her and she was dragged ashore,
saved.
'Strong, willing hands carried her to
Timer Aliens Cottage, and she. was placed
in DR.. Kimball's care. That night male
child was borh and both lived, two frail
lives saved out of the jaws of death
where strong men perished by scores.
"As night came on, the tugs Achilles
and Leviathan came down and anchored
Just outside the breakers. The cries from
| the wreck affected them so that Mr.. Mar
tin. agent for the underwriters, called for
volunteers to man boat, but when they
neared the wreck, the sea was breaking
so furiously over it that they could not
approach, and sorrowfully returned.
"A1l night the watchers on the shore
burning fires. All night the tugs lay by,
sullenly pulling at their anchors; and
from the maintop, all night long, Ed.
Wardel heard the voice of the singing
boy, that sweet voice, now shrll with
terror, calling, Helf-mir,' 'Helf-mir,' 'Ach
Helf-mir.' The next morning Captain
Wadell brought him down half dead from
exposure, half crazed from fear. And
well he might be, for below him hung
arms and legs, lashed fast, from which
the bodies had been torn away by the
violence of the surf
1.-The survivors were 157 in all, out OF
total of 415 that sailed from Bremen.
For days, eyeless bodies drifted up on
the beach, with gold in body belts, gold
in shoes. gold sewed in hens of dresses.
The diamond Dealers body came ashore
at Monmouth Beach, and Ed Wardell's 8
brother found in his pockets lot of un-
set diamonds. The sixteen year old farm
er's boy brought them to Captain War
dell, wondering why that German had
pebbles in his pockets. Two bodies drifted
up inside of Sandy Hook. One beau
tifully formed young woman, and the
other a middle-aged one. On the front of
their under linen was worked, with red
silk. in Roman letters, E. r. perhaps
cargo was total loss.
What more remains to tell? About 125
| feet south of the New Era monument at
Asbury Park, the trained eye of the eurf-
Liam can tell by the swirl of the water.
at low tide, that something is there.
ION wind swept hillside. near shin
gle-sided church, back of West Long
Branch, are some sunken trenches. Near
them a granite shaft, bearing the inscrip-
| ton, In Memory of German Passengers
Who Perished by the Wreck of the New
Era. And this is all of the most disas-
trous loss of life and property that ever
| happened on the Monmouth coast
| The last resting place of the 240 unfor-
tunate immigrants who lost their lives in
| the wreck is now marked by handsome
! monument, which was dedicated Novem-
ber, 1892, with interesting ceremonies.
The New Era Association was organized
March %, 1891 The original officers and
members were:-Jacob Degenring, of Red
Bank, president; Henry Schoenlein, of
Long Branch secretary; G. p. Kuhl, Of
Red Bank. treasurer; John v. Kolb,
| Charles Gremer, Leopold Marks and
Charles Gremer Now there are three
| local associations, located at Long
Branch, Red Bank and Keyport, in addi-
tion to the one organized ten years ago.
r he, rrirne object of the association a I