The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-01-04
A DARING RESCUE.
Brave Life Savers Take Twenty.
One Men from Ship.
VESSEL TOTAL LOSS.
The Large Oil Steamer Northeastern
Pounding to Pieces on tie Treach.
erous Shoals of Cape Hate
ras. Crew. Aftec Great
Peril. is Saved.

wrecked oil steamer Northeastern
nine miles eff Cape Hatteras FIR sc
hours, Capt. Wilder and bis crew Of
2l men were taken ashore at noon
Thursday by the crews OF Kinnakeet,
Creeds Hill and Hatte1as life saving
stations.
The big steamer is pounding Dia-
mend shoals under terrific sea and
is given up by the crew as total
less.
In a bewilderirg fog Tuesday night
the Northeastern, on her way up the
coast from Port Arthur, Texas, to
New York with a cargo OF crude pet
roleum, showed her Prov Tito the
deadly sands on Ha1teras and was
tast in the clutches Of the graveyard
of shipping before her crew realized
what had happened.
This was at II o'clock and before
day bad come the gale that swept
over the country from the middle
west hac st. uck the sea and waves
we're crashing over the helpless ircess-
antly.
The force Of the wind and tide threw
her on her port bsan and the food
OF water exiting uished her fires before
her iptlammabIe cargo could become
ignited. Had this not been the case,
the % men aboard the Northeastern
would have met be .ible fate with
no possible chance ce scape.
When mcrnirg ned the wreck
was sighted by the life savers and the
weather observatory at Hatteras. She
vas nire miles Oft shore and the water
between vas seething ~ iss Of noun
famous waves. No surf boat ever
built could have lasted one minute in
such a sea and the life guards on the
coast had TO stand by helplessly and
watch the big ship being pounded by
the waves. During Wednesday night
the wind diminished, but the temp2r-
ature dropped about 20 degrees, add.
ing to the suffering OF the crew. This
morning at sun-up the hardy life
savers began their attempts to get a
surf boat to the ship. Again and again
the life boats we're sent head on into
the sea, only to be caught up by a
monster wave and hurled back on the
beach. Human determination con-
quered the elements after three-hour
struggle, and at 9 o'clock three life
boats, with their brave crews, were
safely across the breakers. When the
surfnan reached the wreck they were
confronted with problem OF great
danger and difficulty. The sea. while
it had ubsided to some extent, was
still in an angry mood and the little
life boats were being tossed ike cookie
shells about the helpless mass OF
steel. Lines were finally strung be,
tween the boats and tie Northeastern
and every man was taken from the
vessel in safety. 1t was over six hours
before the first Of the boats reached
shore again. The almost exhausted
crew was cared for by the Aatteras
life savers. No statement could be Sc.
cured from Capt. Wilder Wednesday.
night, owing to the fact that the
coast wires were broken shortly after
the barest facts cJncerning the rescue
were obtained.
The vessel, it is said, will be total
loss.
The Northeastern is steel ocean
steamship, built In Chicago in 1901,
and is owned by c. Counse;man OF
Cincinnati. The Northeastern sailed
for Port Arthur, December I, from
New York, arrived on the 18th and