The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-18
SEVEN LIFE SAVERS LOST
ALSO EYE MEN THEY WERE IRY-
 ING TO RESCUE.

Ever Happened Lifo Saving Crew on
 Cape Cod Grew Went Out to n Strand
 ed Barge to Take or the Men-suc-
 the Life Boat Is Capsized by a Great
 Wave.
 Chatham Mass, March 17-Seven brave life savers, practically the entire crew of the Monomoy station, on the south end of Cape Cod, met death to- day at their post of duty, and with them into the treacherous sea which capsized the lifeboat went five men from the stranded barge Wadena, whom they vainly tried to bring in safety to the shore. One man, Lemuel Ellis by the heroic work of Captain Elmer Mayo of another stranded barge, the John c. Fitzpatrick, was rescued from the bot tom of the upturned lifeboat Among those lost was William H. Mack of Cleveland, O., who was on the barge representing his company the Boutell Towing and Transportation company. of that city, while Captain Marshall W, Eldredge, one of the, oldest life savers on the coast, went down with his men. All the lifesavers came from Catham and Harwich. There is no government pension for those whose husbands and fathers are lost in the live saving ser vice, so that the lost of the families who are left is a hard one. The names Of those who were lost to-day are as fol lows:
 Life fe-savers-Marshall N. Eldredge, keeper, South Chatham; Edgar G. Shall, Harwich; Elijah Kendrick, liar wich, Osborn Chase, Harwich; Arthur Rogers, North Harwich; Isaac Thomas Foye. South Chatham; Valentine Nick erson, Harwich.
 From the barge-William H. Mack, Cleveland; Captain Christian Olsen, Boston, Robert Molanux, Boston, stew ard of tug Peter Smith; Walter Azeved, Cottage City; Manuel Enos, cottage City.
 The scene of the accident was in the well known tide rips off Monomoy Point, which make down from Chatham into Nantucket sound. Last Thursday the barges Wadena and John c. Fltz- patrick on the way up to Boston With cargoes of coal stranded on the ShoVe- full shoal, about three-quarters of 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 overheard from both of them. Last night the tug Peter C. Smith, which has been lying beside the barges, ran alongside the Wadena and told those on board that a storm was coming on All the wreckers were taken on board the tug with the excep- ton of the five men who met their fate to day. MT. Mack, who had come on from Cleveland, refused to leave and ordered the captain of the Smith to an- chor nearby. About o'clock the weather growing very thick, the cap tain of the tug decided to run into Fly annis. Upon his arrival there the cap tain of the tug tried in vain to notify the Monomoy life savers of the fact that there were five men left on board the Wadena which being further out on the shoal, was in more dangerous place than the Fitzpatrick. This fore noon Captain Eldredge, who had been watching the barges very closely sight ed signals of distress on the Wadena. He got out his crew and the surf boat. The wind was blowing nearly gale from the southeast so preparations were made to launch the boat on the inside of the point where the water was smooth. The crew had no difficulty in getting off 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 fierce
 (Coptip1led on Sixth Papeo