The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-17
DROWNED AT THE BREAkWATER.
Five Lost On I.eweS, Dei-0thers Prob
ably 60 DOwn-Se>ernl Vessels sunk.

LEwEs. Del. Sept. Ia, Between the
hours Of 3 and o'clock this morning one
of the hardest gales in recent years swept
the coast al the Delaware Breakwater and
resulted in the known loes of five lives and
the dest ruction of vast amount Of property
on sea and land There is a belief that the
crews of two banks and one tugboat have
gone down.
At tho Breakwater station of the Phila-
delphia Maritime Exchange the recorded
velocity of wind was eighty miles an hour.
The three-masted schooner Hattie A.
Mar 5h. of New London, from States Point,
Me-, for Philadelphia, with paving blocks,
Ia total wreck on the outside Of the new
harbor of refuge, and her captain, j. b.,
Mahaffy and four Of the crew were drowned.
First Mate Norman Campbell of Bost on
and Seaman Harry W. Bishop were saved.
The schooner was caught in the gale near
Five Fathom Bank lightship and at
o'clock. while making true course for the
breakwater, all of her sails and gaffs we're
blown away. and the ship was left to the
fury of the gale. In a few minutes she
struck on the rocks
Mate Campbell was forward. and has
the crew were huddled into their cabin
and ran for the main lee rigging except
Bishop, who caught hold OF some halliards
and climbed up the mast. In few Sec
onds q mountainous sea swept across her
and carried the captain and four men over
board. The same sea carried Bishop into the
rigging, He gained the mast and held on
and after enduring the exposure and dan
ger for nearly five hours, he and the mate
were rescued by the steam pilot boat Phila-
delphia and safely landed at Lewes.
The small two masted schooner Sea Bird
| of Boston with cargo of crushed stone
dragged into the three-masted schooners
! Adeline Townsend and Emily Northam.
and as result Of the collision the Sea Bird
| sank Capt. H. NJ. Crowley of Boston and
his crew managed to reach the point OF
Cape Henlopen in their own boat,
A tugboat, supposed to be the Spartan
| an ocean-going tug, and three barges are
sunk in the bay above the buoy Of the
| Brown The crews Of the entire fleet are
| doubtless lost, as no trace Of them can be
| found A chance of being rescued by
passing vessels in such a gale is impossible
There is nothing definite to prove that the
tug is the Spartan. but shipping men think
| it is.
| Another barge is sunk off the east end OF
the harbor Of refuge, but her crew are
| thought to be aboard OF the tug Talnaqua
| and it is known that no one was aboarc
when she sank A big bark Is reporteo
| to the southwark with distress sigma Is fly
ing and the tug Sommers n Smith has gone
| to her assistance.
A small, sloop. the Maud s.. is beachec
near the Queen Annes railroad pier. She
is owned by Lewes parties,
The bell buoy off the point OF Cape Hen
lopen is out OF position. and the day mari
on he point demolished, az is the stationar,
lighting arrangement on the east end of tn
harbor of refuge. Broken telegraph com
| municat ion cut Lewes and the Breakwate
of from the outside world until late th
evening.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept 8-The ocean
going tug Sparten of Philadelphia. will
three barges in tow, belonging TO the Read
ing Railroad, went down on Brandywin
Shoals. Ten OF the fifteen Of the crev
were picked up by the fishing smack 1reg
and taken to Anglesea. The captain, mate
chief engineer. and two deck hands wer'
last seen cinging to a small boat and drift
| ing out to sea.