New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-13

itself for the Peaked Hill Bar has moaned over many
other wrecks
from Palermo, went ashore the fatal bar rs soon
the vessel from the Race Point Life-Savir
Station preparations made to the crew.
and the station started with the nortarsl9t
lines and lawsers. The men had great difficulty
in driving the along. as there was a heavy ic.
wall along the beach and it took over three hours
to get to the scene of the wreck. The crew of the
Highland Station already hand but without
any apparatus y consultation held and It
thought best that the crews should return to-
the Highland Station and get the lifc-car Meanwhile
the steward and bOaswain of the bark tried reach
the shore upon plank The plank was tossed about
and turned and over but the men chung 70 1t
until they reached the breakers on the beach Here
the boatswain lost his hold and was drowned but a
young man from the shore saved the steward bv
rushing into the surf with line around his body
and when he had grasped the almost exhausted man
both were hauled ashore.
The station did arrive back at the scene OF
the wreck until eleven O'Clock that night for 1t
slow work hauling the Ifc-car through the heavy
squalls all day and by the time the got back the
vessel was hidden from sight by the darkness
\ fire kept burning the beach and as soon
day dawned the vessel deserted ON the bar
The loaded and a shot with line attached
fired but II fell short sixty feet. Again and
again the was fired but the shots all fell short
and at length the ammunition exhausted When
the firing ceased the of the doomed ship clam
bered up in the fore-rigging and jumped overheard
in the hope of swimming ashore But not a soul
reached the beach a1ve-the current and the under
tow too strong and the watchers on shore help
less to aid. behold twelve 60 down before their
eyes Shortly after the jumped overheard the
vessel began to break up; there nothing
visible of the wreck except a portion of the bow
and ere long the shore Strcwn with debris
The he-savlng apparatus Is now more efficient than
1t was quarter of century ago, but still the dan
gerous bars claim their victims
The Belmont. barkcntine from the West Indies
was lost upon the bars and six of her crew were
drowned Then, September ~, 800, another Italian
bark was dashed to pieces the Peaked Hill Bar
Some of the saved but the bodies of the
Captain and steward were found upon the
beach with their threats cut. They committed SUI
eide either through grief the loss of the vessel
because they despaired of being rescued
The last ship to upon the bars was the Theta
a British ship bound for Ncw-York She dashed upon
the inner bar in the early morning of June : lo5t.
but by prompt assistance from the hfc-savcrs the
crew We're brought to shore a Hc-boat y few
days afterward the Theta herself got of from
the bar with little damage and towed Province
town HarbOr-one of the few ships that had been
driven the bars and vet had escaped destruction
The shifting sands about Provincetowu hide the
vestige of many a wreck beside that the old man
of-war, the Somerset. rs the wind Shrills over the
wastes OF sand on a stormy night can almost
imagine that he hears the walls of those who found
their death upon the moaning bars. Well IL was that
the Maytlower with its precious freight Secrcd clear
OF those dangerous shoals and we'll might the Pilgrim
Fathers give thanks upon their safe arrival in the