The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-23
TWO SCHOONERS
WENT TO BOTTOM
Awful SuHsrings of Those Who
Escaped Drowning.
ONE MAN JUMPED OVERHEARD
TWO DIED FROM EXPOSURE AND
TWO BECAME INSANE.

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n from their sufferings. frost bitten
and helpless. ten men in a boat
were picked up by the schooner Man
hasset yesterday forty-fve miles off
Highland light. Then for the first time
it was learned that the schooners
Frank A. Palmer and Louise b Crary
had been in collision and that they had
been sunk off Thatcher's island on
Wednesday evening.
The survivors were LANDED here to-
day. OF the twenty-one men who made
up the two crews, six were carried down
when the vessels sank, four died dur
ing the terrible three days drift in
Massachusetts bay, and another be
came insane and jumped overheard.
The Dead.
Crew of the Louise B. Crary:
]. F. Smith, mate, Portland, Me.
w H. Holland. engineer
Hans Blank. German seaman
David Shanahan, Newfoundland.
August Johnson, Swede-
Olaf Borg, Norwegian.
Peter Lache, South American
Unknown seaman.
Crew OF the Palmer:
Frank B. Banta, Finland
Edward W. Jorgenson, Norway
Albert Spearling, Philadelphia.
The Rescued Seamen-
Survivors of the Crazy: Captain VIII
liam H. Potter, Long Island; Louis
Stein, engineer.
Survivors of the Palmer: Captain ]
r. Rawding. South Boston; s. Rein
N1 ~ NY
Finland; Edward SomervilIe. Provi-
dence; Daniel Carlson, Norway; c. z
ElfornSOn. Sweden: - NintOn, mate
Hjalmar Sahoyer, New York
The two schoOners both heavily load
ed with coal, doubled Cape Cod in com
pany and ran into strong northwesteI
on Wednesday night. Both captains
put their boats over toward the Cape
Ann shore. When off Thatcher's isl
and they split tacks and finally both
came about at the same time and, un-
known to themselves, headed toward
each other, the Crary holding north or
the port tack and the Palmer south or
the starbOard tack and therefore hav-
ing the right of way. The Crary
crashed into the bow Of the Palmer
The cut was deep and il was seen in
stantly there was no hope for either
vessel.
Most of the Boats Smashed.
Most of the small boats were smashed
and some of the men were killed by tn
collision, but others of both crew!
launched the long boat of the Palmer
into which clam bered the captains o
both vessels and thirteen others Their
was not a moment for storing fOOC
and water in the boat and the roweri
had propelled it only a short distance
from the schoOners when the Paine
went down.
Three minutes later the Crary disap
peared. Without food and water
drenched TO the skin. spray freezing t
their garments because Of the bite
cold. the fifteen survivors underwear
sufferings indescribabIe. Four men o
the Crazy on Friday lay down in tn
bow of the boat and died. Eleven re
manned up till Saturday night am
Franz Banta went insane under the de
fusion that his mother beckoned to hin
and he walked into the sea The 9th
ers were poWerless to restrain him.
Shortly after this, the two captain
decided that the bodies of the four deai
men should be consigned to the deer
and, bending over them, Captain Pot
ter of the Crary repeated as much o
the burial service as he could remem
Der Then the strongest of the SUI
vivors put the bodies overheard.
Rescued at Last
In the three days and a half that tn
men were afloat, their boat drifte
steadily OF shore. until at s O'Clock Sun
day morning it was fOrty-five miles o.
Highland light. There the lookout o
the fishing schooner Manhasset caugh
a glimpse of the boat and within haI
an hour the ten men were in the cabi
OF. the schooner.
Captain Malone at once crowded o
all sail and brought the survivors I
Boston.
Captain Potter's Story.
/ Captain Potter revived -ater in III
day and was removed to a hospita
! He said the Crary was to blame fc
the collision, Mate Smith having dis
/ obeyed orders in not reporting III
nearness of the Palmer. Captain Poi
I ter said the reason why so many
/ the Crary's men died was becaus
a boat in which they had started frol
/ their schooner was swamped and the
were chilled in the water before the
/ finally reached the Paimer's boa
/ Three men died the first night TT
fourth died the next day. The bOdiC
of the dead lay in the boat until earl
Sunday, when Captain Potter repeate
over them as much of a burial serviC
as he could remember and the bodiS
were cast into the sea. From one corps
a pair of trousers was removed to ser4
as a distress signal.
I During the day the sailors at the r
( lief hospital improved very much. The
describe their experience as terribl
/ The death of Banta, the Finlander,
/ recalled as most pathetic In his d
( lirium he saw home and a Christm;
tree, and his mother reckoning him
/ come to her over the water he steppe
/ over the side Of the boat in respon.
TO the fancied summons 10 walk on Il
/ water, and was swallowed up
At the Office of the United Stat
( shipping commissioner of the port
Boston there is no complete list Of Il
| crew of the two sunlen vessels.