Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-12
Three More Wrecks Reported
on Southern Coast.
ARE EXPECTED
WRECKAGE COMING FROM SEA-
WARD AT MANY POINTS.
Most of the Crews Of the Vessels
Saved-The Storm Farther
North.
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.

Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
NORFOLK, Va, October ia. w.
Drinkwater. United States weather OBJ
server at Currituck Inlet, N. c.. arrived
here today as special messenger from
the coast, where all the telegraph wires are
down, bringing news Of the wreck and total
loss of the three-masted schooners Mabel
Rose of Norfolk and Nellie w. Hewlett of
New York The Rose. which was loaded
with 100000 feet of lumber. taken on at
the Tunls lumber mills here for Wiley
Parker and Camp Company Of New YORK.
lies on the beach mass of wreckage TWEEN
ty-five miles south of Virginia Beach. and
the Hewlett, which is described as the
worst wreck ever seen on this coast, lies
seven miles south of Virginia Beach.
What wrecks lie south of Payners mills
is not known. The story of the experience
of himself and crew as told by Capt. {. E.
Walton of the schooner Rose, who came
to- Norfolk with Weather Observer Drink
water to report to his managing owners Is
thrilling in the extreme. The Rose ana
the Hewlett, the latter commanded Dy
Cant Green and bound from Jacksonville,
Fla to New York with a heavy cargo OF
lumber, were lying at anchor near laps
Charles, Va, when the storm struck them
Friday night and sent them southwark.
Vessels Became Waterlogged.
The schooner Rose became waterlogged
at O'Clock Saturday morning. and with
a 75-mile- an hour wind carrying the mount
ainous seas over the vessels deck her crew
of seven and one passenger, William
Kumpf, nineteen, Of Ciniontown, N. j.
were forced to take to the forerlgglns'
where they remained until the breaking
of the storm forced them out. The Vessel
was waterlogged. and just where to retreat
the crew knew not. Finally the eight ship
wrecked mariners, as d last resort, craWleu
under the afterdeck OF the Rose and lashed
themselves. remaining in this position with
out food or drink all night, with the w1no
still blowing at hurricane velocity AT z
O. o'clock Saturday the life savers ashore saw
the Rose with her crew in the reggirg. but
the schooner was then two miles out. At
O clock she struck the beach, but owing TO
darkness shore line fired by the NE
savers failed to reach her. At O'Clock
Sunday morning the life savers at Wash
woods succeeded in getting a line to the
Rose and in eighteen minutes all aboard
We're safely ashore.
This beats all time records at life saving
heretofore made on the Atlantic coast, and
Capt. NJ Corbit and crew of life savers will
in all probability be awarded a medal of
honor by the general government for their
bravery.
Young Kumpf, the passenger on the Rose
who left his home for a pleasure trip at
sea, says he has enough of the water and
will never venture out again. He Will
be brought uD from the Deacn tonight ana
leaves tomorrow by rail for his New Jersey
home.
Howlett's Crew Also Saved.
Captain Green and crew of the schooner
Hewlett remain at Dam-Neck life saving
station. AS in the of the Rose. the
Howlett's crew of eight were landed in
the breaches buoy.
The coast for miles is strewn with wreck
age and more Is coming in all the time,
indicating that many vessels must have
been wrecked at sea in the awful storm.
The body of Captain Adams of the power
full ocean-going coal-laden barge Ocean
Bell. which foundered at Virginia Beach
with her sister barge. washed ashore this
morning. Other bodies are still missing
The United States lightship at Cape Charles
broke from the mooring. and was this
morning lying in the lower Chesapeake
bay
The only accident on the steamer Hamil-
ton. whose commander. Capt. BoaZ, reports
the storm bad the last September
gale, was breaking of the leg Of one immi-
grant passenger. who is now in hospital
here. The wrecked schooner Rose was not
insured.
The schooner J. B. Holden. lumber laden
from Norfolk to New York. is a total
wreck at Paul Gamuel Hill life saving sta
ton, twenty-four miles south of Curituck
Inlet, N c. All Of the crew were rescued.