The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-13
MANY VESSELS LOST
KNOWN TO BE WRECKS,
OTHERS STILL MISSING.
MABEL ROSE AND J. W. HOLDER
.voxs THOSE WHOSE BONES LIE
ON THE BEACH.

u.ree Oracle Went Down With Five
.,.u-Ocean Going Tugs Driven to
eool. SbeIter-IsabelIa Gill, Mary
Iae Patton and Jennie Thomas
an southbOund SchoOners Among
the Missing VesseI-Cnptain of
Henry $. Little Reports Passing
rbree SchOcners in Distress.
coast Wires still Down.
Norfolk. Va, Oct. 12-The first news
.o.aived from the Carolina coast since
tbe beginning of the hurricane last
rigb+ dispels the hope that the treach-
.rous shoals between Currituck and
t1otteras have not claimed their quota
Of the craft.
Two vessels are known to have
besn lost on that stretch of
the coast and further reports
are expected to brings news OF
more wrecks as at this time three
scbooners are missing, together with
me barge. Two schooners and barge,
in addition to those wrecked between
cane Henry and Dam Neck, were lost
during Thursday and Friday. The
crow of the schooners were saved, but
rho barge went down with all hands
on board.
The tug Buccaneer, Capt. Joseph
Lane. reports that the barge Oracle
foundered off Cape Henry with Capt
Cookson.. her cook and three seamen,
all white. The tug sailed from Bal
timora towing the Oracle, which was
coal laden. Off Hog Island the storm
struck her on Thursday and the barge
with her crew went down. The tug
could not approach the barge in the
heavy sea and was forced to come
here for safety.
Two schoOners Lost.
Observer A. w. Drinkwater of the
Currituck station reached Norfolk to-
day by the inland route and reports
the loss of the schooners Mabel Rose
and / w. Holden.
The life savers had seen the Rose
about ? o clock Saturday afternoon with
her crew in the rigging, but she was
then two miles out at sea and nothing
could be done for her. At O'Clock
Sunday morning the life savers sue
ceeded in shooting a line across the
wreck and within eighteen minutes
after the first man had started ashore
the captain and crew of seven men were
on the beach in safety. 1t is esti-
mated that the cargo of lumber car
ried by the schooner Rose was worth
more than $4,000.
The three masted schooner !. B.
Holden. of Suffolk, is ashore near False
Cape, Va. and is a total loss. Her
captain, w. o. Cranmer of Suffolk, and
her crew were taken off by the life
savers and are safe. The Holden was
heavily laden with lumber and an
attempt to save at least a portion of
her cargo will be made
The ocean going tugs accustomed to
stand off Cape Henry awaiting the
arrival of Baltimore bound schooners,
were unable to stand the storm outside
and came in here. They report that
the schooners Isabella Gill, Mary Lee
Patton and Jennie Thomas, bound
from the South for Baltimore, are not
accounted for.
The wires to the coast are down, but
there is grave reason to fear for the
safety of these vessels. Capt. Thomas,
commanding the schooner Henry S.
Little, which came in to-day in distress,
Is reported in the marine district as
saying that he saw three schooners in
very dangerous predicament and
which seemed to be in danger of go
ing on shore. He managed to keep
tieal OF the coast and made this port.
!. is regarded as possible that the Gill,
Inolnas and Patton may have made
ported