The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-18
MANY FISHERMEN WERE LOST.
FULTON MARKET FEET HARD
HIT ny WEDNESDAYS STORM.
Two " the Five Yankee shippers Among
Those DrOwned-One BOat FOundered
and Four Are Missins-Flags At Half
Mast on the Boats Now in Port.

and Four Are MissinS-FeaEs At Half
Mast on the Boats Now in Port
Before the ferocious little cyclone OF
Wednesday smashed things aAoat and ashore
there were five Yankee shippers command
ing fishing schooners that tie up at Fulton
Market piers Now there are only three.
The wo others were drowned onWednesday.
with many other fishermen Of the fleet.
Four OF the boats are missing and one is
known to have foundered.
OF the sixty or more shippers most are
Scandinavians and Portuguese. They are
all American citizens. and many Of them are
as clever az their ancestors who assisted in
the discovery Of America. The natives
regret that old fashioned American names
are disappearing from the roster Of fisher
folk But every one OF tho thirty-ive
storm battered smacks at Fulton Market
yesterday few at half mast below main
trucks the ensign of Uncle Sam. and there
wasn't Scandinavian OF . Portuguese
aboard who wasn't as sorry "a any native
Foremost among the dead was Silas p.
Latham. skipper and part owner OF the
Ester Anita OF New London. The flags
spoke for him more eloquently, perhaps.
than for any one else He was q grizzled
sea rover Of sixty-Ave, and every fisher
man who ever set sail with him swore by
his luck.
He was a silent man except when the SUBJ
ject was theology, and then he wa1ed
warm. One OF his Yankee crew said he
cared nothing for God, devil or man. and
had no fear even OF the sea which finally
overwhelmed him. He was a character
in his town OF Noank. Conn, where he leaves
q widow and daughter.
in length from 90 to 100 feet, Capt. Lat hams
little ship was blue6shing of the Delaware
Capee when the storm came his way. After
an Intellectual effort to claw on shore he
dropped anchor, paying out 100 fathoms OF
hawser. His anchor held so fast that even
his stanch smack The combers roared
aboard. One Of them, rising 20 feet or more
over the bow. smashed on the decks, destroy
ing all the dories and sending the schooner
on her beam ends,
Capt. Latham, who had taken the
wheel himself. and two fishermen.
Wilcox and Barr, who were alongside him,
of the crew, about twelve men, sought
safety in the rigging The anchor dragged
and only the sudden shifting OF the wind
saved the fishermen.
Within half mile of the Ester Anita was
the w-lying 70-footer NJ, A. Bast on. Capt
John Morgan, a veteran Of Noank, who
leaves a little brood OF Yankee children
He had been in mist and fog for two days
and had lost his reckoning
He thought he was in the near neighbor-
hood of the Delaware capes when the blast
, struck him and he decided TO put into
Delaware Breakwater for safety.
He stripped his ship Of all canvas save
fnresail which barely kent
him up in the gale, and tried 20 work of.
shore In the driving rain he discerned
| the topmasts Of foIndered smack directly
| ahead TO clear the wreck he was forced
! to wear ship TO get Oh the other tack. In
| doing so the Baston was popped by
| comber that, according 70 Able Seaman
, William Raynor. lowered twenty-five feet
| above the smack S deck.
II swept away Capt. Morgan and Ned
! Petersen, who was assisting him at the
wheel One man saved himself by grab
bling the end Of the main boom as he as
] washed away and the others carried into
! the blight of the reefed sail
; Men in the rigging saw the skipper rise
! once, look toward them impassively and
vanish in the tumult. Petersen. as he
: came to the surface. shouted; Cut loose
; a dorv!" Then he, too, disappeared Every
! dorv had been smashed.
Finding themselves unable 20 make
i headwsv against the hurricane, the men
! OF the skipperless boat let go the anchor.
: She dragged until The wind shifted, then
: made sail and came to port.
/ The Geneva Merits, hailing from Glouces-
ter but at present IA Fulton Market smack,
! lest one man Of the Delaware capes. He
| was a Scandinavian and known TO his ship
mates as Maxwell" which wasn't his name
From III" appearance OF the masts of the
: coundered smack that the Baston sighted
| il is Thought that she carried crew Of
about Twelve men, all of whom doubtless
wsr. lost. Four smacI<s, the Emily p.
; Wright and the Daisyof this port the William
NJ. Gef1ney of Gloucester and the kingsland,
, are among the ,nreported. Capt. Ben
Latham. brother Of the lost skipper, com
, nands the Kingsland. which was last re-
! porte OF the eastern end of Long Island.