The Washington times., 1906-11-18
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During a gale that is said TO have blown
100 miles hour, the coffee bark Priscilla,
from Rio to Baltimore. swept ashore. len
men were saved, but The captains wlte ana
two sons and the cabin boy were drowned
From the wreck of the schooner ReppaTd,
bound 20 Savannah from Philadelphia, five were
drowned and only three saved. Another doomed
vessel gave two Of It's crew 10 the hungry waters
before they could be rescued.
Most noted and terrible of the many dis
asters at Hatteras was the wreck Of the United
States warship Huron, November 24, 1877.
OF 1872 persons on board, Captain Ryan and
uinety-seven Others were lost
At l o'clock a Saturday morning during
4 heavy blow. the Huron struck on one of the
ledgcs of Diamond Shoals. She hung together.
however, pounded over this into the deeper water
within, and then, staggering and helpless like
bewildcred drunken man, swept little by
little shoreward until she grounded finally on
bar 200 yards from the beach.
Through six terrible hours the vessel lay
pounding on the bar until daybreak Many of
the crew had already been lost, together with the
commander. About fifty men were huddled on
the iorecastle.
Accompanied by Seaman Antonio Williams
who volunteered, Ensign Lucen Young swan
ashore through the boiling surf and on the way
rescued two sailors who were struggling IN the
water. Barefoot and bruised, Young ran to the
hte-saying station, four miles distant, only to
find it locked and the crew of duty, as il was
not the active season.
Breaking in the door of the station Young
got out the mortar and other apparatus and
hired team to take them to the scene of wreck.
While he yet q quarter of a mile away
however, the Huron went to pieces and all that
could be done was TO assist ashore four officers
and about thirty who were doating on
wreckage.
The steamer Metropolis was the only other
big wreck that winter. This wooden vessel of
STS tons sailed January 80, 1873 from Phila-
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and large number of worlmcn for railroad
construction.
She struck at o'clock in the morning and
went to pieces. OF the 245 men on the ship,
eighty lost their lives.
When the British steamer Ariosto, from
Galveston, went ashore December 24, 1899, in
q driving rainstorm and with a heavy sea run
ming, the captain put tgenty-six of the crew of
thirty men into boats, which promptly capsized
Two of the struggling sailors were hauled
back on board the wreck ana one SWAIN ashore
Two others got near enough 10 shore 10 be
rescued by the life-savers. but twenty-one were
drowned
The four no remained aboard we're taken
off IN breeches buoy by the hfe-saving crew
Not al the tragedies of Cape Hatteras are
known. Many a vessel sails proudly from port
and is never heard of again.
In 1908 the steamer Luckenbach started
from Sabine Pass. Texas, for Philadelphia.
with 125OOOO gallons of oil She got as far as
Cape Hatteras and disappeared Nothing has
ever been heard of the slip or her crew of
twenty-one men.
While a lightship has been kept off Dia-
mond Shoals for many years, and has doubtless
warned many vessels from the dangerous place.
it has not proved entirely satisfactory
massive permanent lighthouse Is now to
be erected on the outer edge of Diamond
Shoals, at cost of $75O,O0O. This viii carry
light at a height of $50 feet above sea level
which can be seen at distance of fifteen miles
Such a structure, it is believed, will stand
the most angry pounding of old ocean, and wiz
do much good to break the terrors of Hatteras
as the most deadly place along the American
coasts.