The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-24
lizard THEIR CRIES
AS THEY DROWNED
FIGHT OF CREW OF TEN DIE.
sAvERs, NEAR AT HAND,
- WERE UNABLE TO HELP.

roou0r Augustus Hunt went
..,.,re on Long IsIand-FOg Was
nse-Ltfe Savers Could Hear the
-. for Help, But Straining Eyes
c,Id Not Descry the Wrecked
satoouer-TvO Men Were Finally
mashed Toward Shore.
,-.r, York. Jan. 23.-Eight lives were
g., IN the wreck to-day off Quogue,
island. of the four-masted schoon-
49, Augustus Hunt, coal laden for Bos-
I'm from Norfolk, Va.
Of the crew of ten only two men
-.era saved. second mate George Ebert
os cleveland, o., and a Swede, who was
unconscious when washed on the beach
md whose name could not be ascer-
tanned.
The vessel was in command of First
n1,ta Conary, who took charge of her
:, Mace of Capt. Robert Blair when
she last left Boston. Soon after mid
night during a dense fog, the schoon-
or stranded few hundred feet from
tbA beach and. about a mile west of
the Quogue life-saving station.
A life-saving patrolman heard the
cries for help of those on board and
summoned the crew. For hours the
life savers were able to hear the cries
of the men on the vessel, which was
near at hand, but buried in the fog.
They were absolutely unable to help
them. The life savers launched their
boat only to have it hurled back on
the shore by the heavy surf. The
life savers also had recourse to life
lines, but the shots carrying the lines
either fell wide or short of the invisible
mark.
Wreckage Went Ashore.
Soon after daylight masses of wreck
age began to come ashore, indicating
that the vessel was rapidly breaking
up. About noon a spar with a man
clinging to it was seen tossing in the
outer line of breakers. After a line
had been shot across it, and made fast
by the man, he was pulled ashore, and
proved to be Second Mate Ebert.
few minutes later another sailor
half a dozen life-savers, forming a hui
man chain. dashed into the surf and
drew him ashore. He was unconscious
and continued in that condition at a
late hour tonight.
The cries of those remaining on the
wreck continued to grow fainter and
fainter during the afternoon and fin
ally ceased altogether. One body drift
ed ashore, but it was so disfgured as
to be unrecognizable.
1t is believed that only the bow of
the vessel remains on the bar. and
from this the exhausted seamen drop
ped, one by one, until all were swept
away.
story of the Mate.
Mate Ebert after being taken to the
life saving station, said that the vessel
stranded in the fog. having mistaken
the Shinnecock light for the head
light of a steamer. The officers be-
lieved they were at least twenty-five
miles off shore and in no danger, when
suddenly the vessel struck and began
TO pound to pieces in the heavy sea
that was running on the bar.
Great waves swept the vessels deck
the masts snapped off like pipe stems
and with the rigging, were carried
away by the tremendous seas. AS the
null began to go to pieces the members
OF the crew were driven toward the
bog where they hung as best they
could. Ebert was clinging to some
Wreckage on the deck when the whole
mass went overheard, carrying him
with it.
Epelt was unable to give the names
O. any Of the crew, most of whom
Were shipped at Norfolk.
New York, Jan. 2S.-The body of the
man ma washed ashore was tonight iden-
tIed as that of Charles Hudson of
MAIDEN Mass. The rescued sailor re-
NNed sufficiently to be able to say
I yt ne was John Somer, a native of
"IaHd' who was one of the survivors
Cile wreck of the schooner Joseph
D. Fharo, near Cape Charles, on Jan.
Norfolk. ' wv
another unidentified body came
ashore tonight
THEIR SECOND WRECK
IN a. BRIEF SPACE.