The Bourbon news., 1904-12-13
STORM AT SEA.
Terrible Experience Of saiIors-sev-
eral Lost Their Lives.

Highland Light, Mass, Dec. H.
Four of the 20 members of the crew
of the Boston fishing schooner Fish
Hawk lost their lives Saturday night
after deserting their vessel which had
struck and was pounding heavily on
Peaked Hill bars at the north end OF
Cape Cod Five others, including
Capt. BLY,, who followed their four
companions. over the side, had a Sc
we're six hours tussle against freez-
ing sea and gale in small dory, but
managed to reach Provincetown har-
Dor. The deaths and suffering would
have been avoided had all stayed by
their vessel, which had a miraculous
escape and four hours later was safely
anchored in Provincetown harbor.
Norfolk, Va, Dec. 12.-The three
masted schooner Montana, Capt.
Boyce, from New York for Charleston,
S. c., with a cargo of salt Cor probably
coaD, stranded at II p. m. Saturday
night at Pea Island, N. c., life saving
station, so miles north of Capt Hat
teras, during a heavy nOrtherly gale.
Within 20 minutes after the vessel
stranded she was so full of water that
the crew, consisting of Capt. BOyce
and six men, were forced to take to
the rigging, where they remained un-
til 2 p. m. Sunday, when six of the
seven men were rescued by crews of
Pea Island, New Inlet and Bodies Is
land life saving stations. One man,
Henry Edwards, was frozen to death
and was lashed in the rigging in such
a manner that he could not be reached
and his body is still aboard the ship,
hanging in the rigging, head downward.
The rescued crew are now at the
Pea Island life saving station. Great
difficulty was experienced in landing
the crew owing to the fact that the
vessel had sunk and heavy sea was
running at the time. The freezing
weather hampered the work of rescue
and the seamen were so overcome by
exposure and exhaustion that only two
of the men in the rigging were able to
assist in hauling the whip line aboard
the vessel
New York, Dec. 12.-With her bow
stove in, the marine telegraph disa-
bled and forward windlass twisted, the
Belgravia, of the Hamburg-American
line, arrived from Cuxhaven Sunday
with tales of six-hour experience in
a hurricane that threw 1900 Of her
1870 steerage passengers into a panic
December 6. The 1900 Polish and
Russian refugees were sent here
by London societies. According Ito
Capt Magin, on Tuesday afternoon the
Belgravia ran into a hurricane, the
force of which could not be measured
by the wind registering gage. Capt
Magin estimated that at it's height
there was wind velocity of 120 miles
an hour.
A great wave swept over the bow
of the vessel at midnight of the 9th.
tearing out the shield, demolishing the
marine telegraph, tearing away the
starboard hawse port forward and
smashing the windlass. 1t was then
that the fear below decks, which had
been continuous, arose to panic
New York, Dec. 12.-Bringing re-
ports of heavy seas and long contin-
ued stormy weather, the ocean liners
that were detained outside the bar by
Saturdays snow storm came into port
Sunday morning. There were eight
steamers, including the New York, the
Lucania, the Hanover and the Belgra-
via in this storm-bound fleet, and de-
layed on board them were 521 cabin
passengers and 4,934 steerage passen-
gers.
The Lucania had tempestuous voy-
age of six days, six hours and SO min
utes from Queenstewns, and was then
delayed outside the bar Is hours