The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-19
BOAT TWICE CApSIZED
One Man Who Chung to the Bottom
Until Help Came the Only
One Saved.
THE BARGE .WARDENA HAD STRANDED
The Life Savers Had Gone 10 the Assistance
OF its Crew and We're Lost on Their
Way Back to The
Shore.
(By tie Associated Press

way back TO Inc
Shore.
(By tie Associated Press.)
Chatham, Mass. March 17-Seven life
savers, practically the entire crew OF the
Monomoy Station on the south end of
Cape Cod, met death today at their post
of duty. and with them into the sea
which capsized the life boat. went five
men from the stranded barge Wardena
whom they tried to bring in safety to the
shore One man, Lemuel Ellis. throush
the heroic work of Captain Elmer Mayo,
of another stranded barge, the Iohn c.
Fitzpatrick, was rescued from the bot
tom of the upturned life boat. Among
those lost was William H. Mack Of
Cleveland, Ohio, who was on the barge
representing his company, the Bouten
Towing and Transportation Company, OF
that city, while Captain Marshall il. FL
dredge, one of the oldest life savers on
the coast went down with his men. All
the life savers came from Chatham and
Harwich
The names of those lost are as fol-
lows:
Life Savers. MARSHALL N. Ell
DREDGE, keeper, South Chatham.
EDGAR SMALL, Harwich.
ELIJAH KENDRICK, Harwich.
OSBORN CHASE. Harwich.
ARTHUR ROGERS. North Harwich.
ISAAC THOMAS FOYE. South Chat
lsNASsENF1NE MCPHERSON. Har-
witch.
From the Barge:
WILLIAM Fl. MACK, Cleveland.
CAPTAIN CHRISTIAN OLSEN. Bos-
ton.
ROBERT MOLANUX, Boston, ste
ward of tug Peter Smith.
WALTER A. ZEVED, Cottage City.
MANUEL ENOS. Cottage City.
Last Thursday the bargcs Wardena
and John c. Fitzpatrick on the way to
Boston with cargoes of coal, stranded on
the Shovelful Shoal, about three quar-
tiers of a mile off Monomoy Point Since
then every effort has been made to float
the barges, and all day Saturday and
Sunday men from Vineyard Haven were
at work throwing coal overboard from
both of them
Last night the tug Peter c. Smith
which has been lying beside the parges
ran ALONGSIDE the Wardena and told those
on board that storm was coming on
All the wreckers were taken on board
the tug with the exception of the Ave
men who met their fate today. Mr.
Mack, who had come on from Cleveland
refused to leave, and ordered the captain
of the Smith TO anchor nearby. About
8 o'clock, the weather growing very
thick. the captain of the tug decided tC
run into Hyanases. Upon arrival there
the captain tried in vain to notify the
Monomoy Life Savers that there were
five men left on board the Wardena
which, being further out on the shoal
was in a more dangerous place than the
FITZPATRICK. This forenoon Captain FL
6irege, who had been watching the barges
very closely, sighted signals of distress
on the Wardena. He got out his crew
and surf boat.
In the fierce gale ii took nearly an
hour to reach the barge. By the time
the tide had turned to the eastward and
a bad cross sea had been kicked up
Captain Eldredge steered the life boat
after another the five men dropped into
the boat With the wind astern 1T seem
ed comparatively easy to gain the
smooth waters behind the point. The
seas were tossing and turning in the rips
and Captain Eldredge was constantly
looking for smooth spots. When abou'
half way in he thought he discovered
one over what is called hole. aid the
boat was sheered off for it.
AS he did so a tremendous sea caught
her under the stern and she went over
throwing all the men into the water
The life savers chung to the boat and
managed to pull the Wardena men alons
with them. An attempt was made Il
right the boat, but the life savers only
mayed to get her partially cleared
They had some hope, however, of reach
ing land. until another wave again cap
sized the boat Mr.. Mack was the 1rst
to succumb, and one by one the other:
dropped away until there We're only -four
left. and these climbed on the bottom Of
the overturned boat. All were fcarfully
exhausted.
The four men drifted down in the di-
rection of the Fitzpatrick, where Capt
Mayo, or tnat craft, Caught slShl VI
them With much daring he dropped 9
dory overheard, jumped into it and start
ed after the exhausted men, Before III
reached the life boat, three of them hac
fallen into the sea. Ellis managed t.
hold on and caught the rope which Cap
tain Mayo threw to him. He was dragP-
ed aboard and then Captain Mayo, being
an expert surf man, pulled around the
point into the smooth water and landed
the only survivor of the thirteen who
started from the barge Ellis was toe
exhausted to give any accurate account
OF his experiences for two OF three hour:
after getting ashore and Tonight al.