The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-10-13
THREE VESSELS ARE LOSi
Now There Comes a Report of a Five
Basted Schooner Thrown Upon the
Besch and Of a Great G~littering Pas
gengeT Steamer Fighting for Life
Dangerously Near the Shore.
}v the Associated Press,

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Norfolk, Va, Oct. 1o.-the Virginia
r(g-t from Cape Henry to Dam Neck
Mills. twelve miles south, is strewa with
the vlechage of Inflated craft tonight.
All communication with the seaboard
Il. cut off. but it is known that three
vessels have been wrecked and several
lives lost within that distance today. and
the last report is that a ive-masted
schooner has been thrown upon the
beach wajle a brilliantly lighted psssen-
ger steamer Is laboring very dangerously
near 10 shore with a terrific gale from
the northeast fighting her efforts TO MAKE
The OPEN.
OF the large ocean-going coal barces,
Ocean Belle and Georgia, nothing is now
left except miles OF wreckage on the
shore, and OF the crews that antcd
them the fates Of only five are known.
Captain George H. Adams and Seaman
Charles Peters are drowned while joseph
Peters. Peter Lopez and NJ. Payne owe
their lives to the heroism OF Surfnan
Charles Caps, l~lfe-sayins station No. ?.
All these men were on the Ocean Belle
and when this barge was dashed ashore
the waves swept her decks clear Of rigging
and crew. Caps plunged successfully into
the raging surf and after desperate strug-
giles brought all three men to land. The
tate Of the Georgia's crew IS unknown.
but little hope is held for their safety.
Both barges were in tow Of the tug
Richmond and the tug is missing.
The thTee-masted schooner. Nellie w.
Hewlett. Captain Gheern, lumber laden
from Pensacola. is a total wreck on the
coz st tire" nils Irom Dam Neck Mills.
Captain Gheem and his crew of six men
are safe at the station but their rescue
was accomplished only by acts of bra
very on the part of the life savers. Four
attempts We're made to launch the e,rf
boat and thus reach the ship, rapidly
pounding 10 pieces on the bar, and each
eu6eavor was repulsed by the sea.
The surf guard then with double charges
ot powder in the Lille gun succeeded in
dropping a line over the vessel and one
by one the crew was bauled ashore
through the surf.
Tie last train from the coast arrived IN
Norfolk tonight at ! O'Clock and brought
2o5o people back from the scene. At that
tine d large fve-masted schooner was
reported IN the surf between Virginia
Beach and Cape Henry and near her a
big passenger steamer. with lights shining
IN every port hole. seemed to be fight
ING a losing battle with the northeast
gale that was blowing her towards the
breakers.
The wind at the cape is over severity
nile. an hour and the surf IS piIing over
the and hills II back into the main
land.
At the Norfolk navy yard the cruiser
Olympia Is in dry dack with her bottom
Plates removed and a steadily rising tide
rs creeping inch by inch up the outer side
q the c~aisson. At high tide this morn
lng it reached within six inches Of tie
'o2. The winds change to north VII
E1Eo the food tide this midnight much
hg7er and grave fears are felt for the
0lser'@ safety should an overflow occur.
the terminal piers of the Norfolk and
Western, Southern and Atlantic Coast
lEe 10 the outer harbor rave been badly
aaDaged ~ the wind and the tide in the
zig pleasure piers at Ocean View are de-
~rovad.
Hundreds of small craft have come
ashore IN the harbor.
Norfolk city has experienced a gale OF
nom forty to fifty miles all day. and be-
..t'~ flooded streets much damage has
."an done. For the greater part OF the
world.
Newport News, Va. Oct. 1O.-The tug
"oa"ond arrived here tonight with tho
'.'N O, the barge Georgia, which is ashore
@' Virginia Beach.