New-York tribune., 1902-02-04
TWO TUGS FOUNDER.
Continued from first pnge.

not hear the calls for help which Captain Rich
ard Wray. of the Atwood, made through
megaphone when but a few hundred feet away.
This was Captain Dugge's first voyage TO this
port.
The two boats left port in company on Sun
day morning about 10 o'clock to go to the
Lamport & Holt steamship Cavour. which lay
stranded on Long Beach. Captain John Curran
commanded the Berwind and the Atwood was
in charge of Captain Richard Wray. On the
Berwind Captain w. H. Guy of the Lam
port & Holt Line, and anchor to be used in
getting the Cavour off. The Atwood had sup
ply of provisions for the steamship. 1t was
foggy when the tugs went down the Bay, and
they felt their way along until they got out
side the bar. when they let themselves out
They arrived at Long Beach little after noon,
and Captain Guy went ashore in the surfboat.
The tugs waited for the surfboat to come for
the provisions and anchor until 1 o'clock. Mean
while the wind had veered from the east into
the southwest. The glass dropped rapidly and
the fog lifted suddenly. 1t evident that 1t
would be dangerous to stay where they were,
and without landing the provisions or anchor
they put to sea. The anchor was the Berwind's
undong. Had it not been for the anchor she
might have survived, for she one of the
tightest and most powerful tugboats in the
harbor.
The wind had become a gale, and to make
the Sandy Hook Lightship it was necessary 10
buck into the teeth of it. Captain Wray for a
few moments watched object the shore
and found that he was making progress
whatsoever The wind growing stronger
every moment. had thrown the oceans
face into short choppy waveA eight to ten
feet high, and lashed the tips into smother, so
that the appeared to be white The tugs
would jump down into the narrow hollows of
these waves, and occasionally would slam
on top of the pilothouse of the Atwood. The
seams of the Atwood began to open forward.
Captain Wray tried TO make progress by steer
ing at acute angle to the wind. Meanwhile
the Berwind, with her more powerful engines,
bucking head first into the storm, had come
abreast Grabbing up his megaphone Captain
Wray shouted:
7 don't know whether we can make this
VII you stand by until we make the High
I'm stick to you" shouted back Captain Cur
ran.
But his boat too was doomed He sackened
on the Berwind's forward deck. began TO slide
about. 1t suddenly dashed into the hatch
over the companionway leading into the fo'
castle. The water flowed down into it,
cap she's taking water forward: We'll
have 10 stop her" shouted the engineer 10 Cap
tam Curran In response. Captain Curran put
about until he had the wind astern, and ordered
a deckhand to batten up the opening with some
boards and canvas Il was ineffectual: the an
yhor was still loose. Putting about again, the
Berwind was driven into the sea.
She's fillin',' was the engineers next mes
sage up the tube
The anchor had banged down against the
deckhouse and torn hole in it big enough to
In few minutes another message came up
the tube from the engineer.
Cap. she's sinkiu'."
putting about again with her back to the
storm, the powerful Berwind fought for exist
The delays IN swinging about had put the
Ber|lnd behind the Atwood Matters on the lat
ter mad been getting worse. The water was
streaming into her
The Phunicia was seen approaching and the
whistle was sounded in short sharp blasts. The
men got out on the upper deck and waved their
coats Captain Wray shouted through the mega
phone:
VIII you make lee for us to the High
lands?"
The officers on the bridge Of the Phunicia
VINO. VINO could be seen plainly. seemed to pay no
dred yards ahead OF the Atwood.
This was at 30 o'clock. Twenty-Five min
utes later the Barcelona came along and Cap
tain Baker, observing the whistiinE. shouted:
What can ! do for you?"
we are sinking The reply.
The Barcelona swung about and came along
side, for the Atwood's fires had gone out. A
men climbed up. The Atwood drifted away be
could get on the ladder. and they were hauled
aboard with hawsers thrown 10 them
\ few moments after they got aboard the
Atwood settled down in the water and then as
a big pun Of steam shot up the stack disup-
1t could be seen that the Berwind was in trou-
bic. She was footing her whistle The BARGE
Iona ran down to her and took off her crew
She sank in a few minutes.
Captain Wray showed his gratitude by bring
ing the Barcelona into the harbor and up to
Quarantine, the only steamer to come up Sunday
night.
AS soon as Busk & Jevons. the agents Of the
stranded steamer Cavour, learned of the loss of
the two tugs they sent 10 the DalzeH com
pany and the BerWind- White Coal COMPANY
each letter of sympathy and checks for 500
TO be divided between the crews of the lost tugs.
The Berwind was valued at 100000 and In
sured for $4,000 She was owned by Captain
NJ Hoffman. marine superintendent OF the Rer-
Wind-White Coal Mining Company She was
built in 1891. and registered I33 tons Her
length 93 feet.
The Atwood owned by the DalzeH Tow
boat Company, and was valued at $4,000
There was little insurance on her