The sun., 1902-02-05
LIFE CREW TO STRANDED SHIP
FINDS ICE-sHEATHED SCHEPPS
MEN ENJOYING HOT COFFEE.
rve Are Sent Ashore III. hot the Rest VIII
stfck Until the Cargos Taken on
Owner Hopes 10 Save vessei-Light-
ers Taking Cargo Of steamer Cavour.


out Iafe-Saving Station at the eastern end OF
Long Beach a little before midnight on
Sunday. was reached by life-saving crew
carly yesterday morning. a little more than
twenty-four hours after the men Of the life
savine station first saw the ships signals.
The wind. which had moved around so
that II was blowing fresh from the south
west and west, kicked up n lively sea yes
terday, but the wreckers said that no
amount of offshorc wind will endanger the
ship. What they fear is an easterly wind
with a heavy ground swell. which would
wreck the ship and throw her further up
ON the beach.
Al daybreak yesterday morning Capt.
Andrew +. Rhodes of tho Point Lookout
Life-Saving Station found that the sea
had abated enough TO giVo him another
chance OF reaching the J.. Schepp. The
big waves were still coming in at height
60 make a landsnan shiver, but they
were far lower than those Of the day before.
The biggest OF the Lookout stat ion boats.
With Capt. Rhodes. Capt. Van Wicklen of
the Long Beach crew, from the western
end Of the island, and eight OF the Point
Lookout crew, with John Haggerty OF
the Merritt Chapman Company, thrust
the boat out through the ice at the water
edge, waded into the icy waves and made
for the sea.
The boat shipped big wave going through
yno nrSt line oil DreakciS,but tlc sen
device let out the water almost a. iast as
II came in. Another wave came aboard IN
the second line OF breakers without any
more serious results than that the men
In the forwerd part Of the boat were
+ drenched and the spray iroze on them IKE
armor.
They climbed over the ships side on a
rope ladder and found the crew coopedu IN
the galley. The crew was not suffering
from the cold and hot coffee was b'lng
tI.n,,, NIL Rss
The captain. with his mate, was IN the
cabin aft. Tho captain wa' asleep IN MS
bunk whom the life savcrs care aboard. lie
had turned in AT 3 q clock in tie morning,
with the first sign Of a mUG-ratlng s"a.
The life savers found the ship looking
like an iceberg. The decks were IA foot
deep in Ice. The rails and the masts and
the rigging a. high as tho first topmast
were incased two feet thick; The matches
were battened down by thick ice. The
captain said that when the ship struck
he found that she had made eight feet of
water. Mr.. Haggerty of the Mcrrit,-Chap-,
man Company Mt once sounded the well
and found eight feet three inches, showing
that the water had gained only three
inches since the vessel had rest ed n the bar.
The sounding showed that the ship, which
was headed in shore, was in fifteen feet
of water aft and sixteen feet forward,
proving that she had thumped over the
bar Capt Kendall. when he learned
that a forty-foot section of the forefoot
keel had come ashore on Monday said he
was sure that the vessel would have TO
60 TO pieces He thought the best that
could be done would be TO save the cargo,
which is valued at about sJOO,OOO.
After talk with Mr.. Haggerty Capt.
Kendall sent forward for his crew. The
struggle with the storm. came slipping
and sliding out of the galley and formed
In a semicircle around him He said:
'You. Bennett. and you, Chris Andersen,
20 get your dunnage and 50 ashore with
This life-saving crew"
These two men were very sick Bennett
was so weak that he had 10 be supported
across the deck. Then the captain said
TO the others:
.The rest of you men can go ashore
with the life-savers if you want to. When
you get there you'll have walk of
eight miles and a half through the snow,
over an open country, TO the nearest rail-
road station. Mr.. Haggerty. here, says
he will take you 20 New York on the wreck
ing tug when il goes back, and think
you'll be better on that way. You can do
as you please.
The men looked at ono another. and az
last one Of them said he'd stai and the rest
said they guessed they would. too, and
they slid back TO the galley to their hot
coffee. The captain sent them a box Of
cigars. The life-savng crew then lowered
Bennett and Anderson into tho surfboat
with ropes and took them back TO shore.
They were put ia a carriage there and sent
90 Rockville Centre, where they took IA
train for New NoTK
Before the life savers got well away they
saw the crew at work getting down the
clewed-up sails ana knocking the lce from
the rigging.
The chapman Nreckiug tug Chapman
and a smaller tug went along-ld" th" S"h'pp
later with "a hgnH ana tl" Nchepp cargo
could be ss,eu gong over into the lighter
all day. This j. ths story CAPT Kendall
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