The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-18
TWELVE MEN
 ARE DROWNED Seven Life Savers Go Down. LIFE BOAT IS cAPsIzED
Were Tallng Men from
 Stranded Barge.
Of Thirteen lCsn Only One h Saved. Gale Sweeps Atlantic Coast.
 Family Of Four Frozen a to Dsath.

Mcnomoy station, on the south end or Cape Cod, met death today .nt their post of duty and with them into the sea which capsised the fife boat went five men from the strander barge wadena, whom thcy tried to bring in safety to the shore.
 The shoreman. Norman Ellis, through heroic work of Captain Elmer Mayo. of another stranded barge. the John c. Fits patrick. was rescued from the bottom of the upturned life boat.
 Among those lost was William H. Mack of Cleveland, O.. wh, was on the barge representing his company, the Moutelle Towing and Transportation Company of that city, while Captain Marshall N. Eldredge.' one of the oldest life savers on the coast. went down with his men. All the left savers came from Chatham and Harwich.
 The names of those lost are as follows:
 Life savers--Marshail N. Eldredge, keeper, South Chatham; Edgar Small. Harwich; Elijah Kendrick, Harwtch; Os- borne Chase, Harwic Arthur Rogers, North Harwich; Isaac T. Foye. South Chatham; Valentine Nickerson, Harwich.
 From the barge-Wiiliam H. Mack. Cleveland; Captain Christian Olsen, Bos- ton; Robert Moleneaux. Boston, steward of the tug Peter Smith; Walter 4. Zeved, Cottage City: Manuel Enos, cottage City.
 The scene of the accident was In the well known tide ofY Monomoy Point. which makes down from Chatham In Nantuck Sound. Last Thursday the barges wadena and John c. Fitzpatrick on the way tor Boston with cargoes of coal, stranded on the shoveiful shoals. three-quarterss of mile on Moriomoy Point. Since then every snart has beeh made to float the bArges. Essk 1itht M tug Peter c Smith ,whfes Aas teen tytns beside the bargees ran nionGside the ye- dAna and told thcse on board thN storm vas coninG All the ,rreckeTg were taken on board the tug, with the excsp. ton of the Ave men who rntt their rate today Mir Mack. who had come rom Cleveland. refused to leave and ordered the captain of the Smith to anchor near by. About 8 o'clock, the weather grow. ing very thick, the captain of the tug decided to run into Hyannis. There the captain tried in vain to notify the Mon- omoy life savers that there were i've men left on board the Wadena, This forenoon Captain Eidredge sighted signals of distress on the wedena- He got out his crew and surf-boat The crew had no diffculty in getting of, but after rounding the point it took nearly an hour to reach the barge. By that time the tide had turned to the eastward. and a fierce cross sea had been kicked up. Cap tain Eldredge stood the life-boat under the lee of the Wadena and the five men dropped into the boat. With the wind astern, 1t seemed comparatively easy to
 .n A-A lA IL. xlAA The seas were tossing and turning in the rips. and Captain Eldredge was con- stantiy looking for mouth spots. About half way in he thought he discovered one over what is called The Hole. and the boat was shied off for it. As she did so, a tremendous sea caught her under the stern and she went over. throwing all the men into the water. The life savers clung to the boat and managed to pull the Wadena along with them. An at- tempt was made to right the boat. but the life savers only managed to get par tially cleared when another wave again capsized here.
 Mr. Mack was the first to succumb, and one by one the others dropped away un- til there were only four left, and these climbed on the bottom of the overturned boat, fearfuliy exhausted. They drifted in the direction of the Fitzpatrick, where Captain May of that craft saw them With much daring, he dropped dory overheard and then. Jumping. started af- ter the exhausted men. Before he reach ed the life boat. three of them had fallen into the sea. Ellis managed to hold on and caught the rope which Captain Mayo threw to him. He was dragged aboard and then Captain Mayo pulled around the point into the smooth water and landed the only survivor of the thirteen who started from the barge. Ellis was too exhausted to give any account of his ex- perience. Two men still remain on the barge Fitzpatrick. but the storm tonight has subsided. and they are in little dan ger.