The age-herald., 1901-11-25
SAILORS RESCUED BY BREECHES BUOY Tug Boat Breaks Long Branch
 Pier in Two FULL BEGGED SHIP WRECKED Storm Does Much Damage at Long Branch-The United States Ho-
 tel Is Wrecked and Aven-
 ues Made Impossible.
FULL BEGGED SHIP WRECKED

New York, November 24 = The full rigged ship Flottbek, which went ashore at Monmoth Beach during last nights gale, is tonight resting on the sands ap- parently little the worse for her experi- ence and her crew are being cared for by the life savers of station No. 4.
 The tug Robert Haddon picked up the Flottbek yesterday afternoon about dark. The ship under command of Captain Singler, was bound for New York from Plymouth, England with a cargo of white clay and minerals. The tug had crew of seven men and the ship had twenty-four men all told. Late in the evening the wind attained velocity of forty or forty-five knots and the tug was unable to make headway and the two vessels began to work inshore. Their danger was seen from the beach and the life-savers prepared to aid them.
 Seeing that the struggle was hopeless and that the only chance of saving the tug was to let the ship go. ne hawser was cut. The ship drifted rapidly in- shore and struck well up and close in at point favorable for work upon her. nc tug lOSl HtT dDOul lDG lllue she was freed from the ship, and, driven by the gale and perfectly helpless, she drifted down the coast and brought up against the iron pier at Long Branch and began to pound against it. Seven Men Saved. Some men with rope went to the pier to aid the seven men on the tug. Each wave as 1t receded carried the Haddon away from the pier and then as the next came rolling shoreward the heavy tug would be carried on its crest and dashed against the piling under the pier or against the steel work. The work of rescue was dangerous, not only to the men being rescued. but to those aiding them. After many efforts a man on the tug caught the rope which
 was thrown from the pier. He hung on, and as the tug was carried away from the pier, the man clinging to the rope swung clear of her, and then was hur- riedly hauled upon the pier before the next wave could dash him aginst the pill ing.
 Meanwhile the life-savers had thrown a
 projectile over the ship and the rope caught The cable of the ship was made fast aloft. The brooches buoy was rigged
 up within a very short time. The ship had struck broadside on so that the work of removing the men was comparatively
 easy. The rescued sailors were taken to Long Branch.
 Iron Pier Breaks. Q -g- IL.
 pier broke in two. The tug had contin | ued to pound against it, and the piling and superstructure were gradually weak ened by the blows. The tug. too, was bat l tered to pieces.
 When the pier was carried away, one
 man, whose name is not known, was drowned.
 Branch was wrecked early in the night The gale started a corner of the roof and the wind, getting under 1t, ripped | almost the whole covering off. Very little could be done to save the interior. The
 rain was fallng in torrents and men worked hard to get the furnishings tc points where they would be in the least danger. Along Ocean avenue several store fronts were blown in and the rain beat in during the night
 Many of the avenues are impossible ow- ing to fallen trees and fences being
 blown across them. Tonight there is but one telegraph wire working out of ths city.
 The New York and Long Branch roac
 is blocked by washout at Morgans.'