Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-20
MANY SHIPS WRECKED
SEVERE STORM SWEPT THE vIR-
GINA COAST, DOING DAMAGE.

NORFOLK. Va, September 20. The
storm that swept the coast of the Caro-
linas and Virginia Sunday and Monday
was one of the most terrific in recent
years. Scores of vessels were either
wrecked or badly damaged, and today
number of ships that were caught In :he
blow just managed to limp 10 port. The
British tramp steamer Laura OF the Py-
man line bound from Port Arthur. Tex.
September o, for European ports. arrived
at the Lambert's Point coal piers this
morning, after having encountered the
terrific storm which swept the Hatteras
coast last Monday morning. In the storm
the ships commander. Capt Charles ].
Adams, and two seamen were swept into
the ocean and lost. The Laura. with her
cargo shifted and badly listed to port,
came into the Virginia Capes with her
charthouse gone, all save one of her life
boats missing. her bridge torn to pieces,
the steel sides of her house bent and her
superstructure practical wreck. The
ship showed signs OF having been worse
handled by the wind and sea than anv
steel ship which ever before entered this
port after storm at sea-
Storm at Its Height.
It was at 3 o'clock Monday morning
that the storm was at it's height, and for
thirty-eight hours the Laura wrestlcd
with the elements. Capt. Adams and two
of his were in the charthouse on
deck when two great waves arose, one
upon each side of the ship. and. rising to
a point higher than the ships bridge, met
and fell. crushing the vessels charthouse
Then the receding waves. assisted by the
awful wind, carried the charthouse to
sed and it and the occupants vanished
from sight.
The wave wrecked and carried away
fho hoo 70 ncrh ra-at dam 1
the superstructure of the ship.
The second officer lay sick in his bunk
with fever at 1903 degrees when the mas
ter was lost. He was carried Up and took
command and saved the ship. When he
anchored here this morning and told of
the loss of life aboard and of the storm
he had not slept. Weakened and wounded,
he was taken at once to local hospital
The third officer also suffered injury. His
head is swelled to nearly double its nat:-
raj size. Every man aboard the ship is
b. uised. sore and suffering. and it was
said all should be in the hospital
Saved the Ship.
The second officer Of the Laura, who is
accredited with having by his great hero
ism saved the ship after the loss Of Capt.
Adams. is Fred Gladstone OF West Hartle-
pool. England. He took charge of the YES
sci after the loss of the captain because
First Officer johnson had been thrown
against the side of the ship and rendered
unconscious.
Officer Johnson, Third Engineer Gladstone
and Fireman Steward now in st. Vincent's
Hospital. willeall recover.
Capt. Adams. who was about twenty EIGHT
years of age. was married but had no
children. His home was at Fishguard,
Wales. w. Elliott. fireman. who was lost,
was from South Shields, England. He left
a widow and four children. John Brennan.
seaman. who was at the wheel when the
torrent fell upon the ship and washed him
to his death. was unmarried.
A Cargo Of Wheat. -..
The steamer. which has a cargo OF wheat,
is bound for Antwerp. Belgium.
The three-masted schooner Arthur c..
Wade of New York. which suffered in the
recent coast storm, was picked up today by
the Standard Oil steamer Capt. A. F. Lu-
cas- thirty miles south Of Diamond Shoals
lightship, and is now being towed by the
Lucas to New York. The Wade asked by
wireless from the Diamond Shoals lightship
to be reported to her owner. N. H. Smith in
New York Another report gives her owner
as w. H. Armstrong, New York.
The steamer City of Augusta reported to
the Norfolk weather bureau yesterday that
she passed the wrecked schooner ]. w.
Belano of Thomaston, Me, yesterday forty
Frying Pan lightship. All the schooner s
masts and her bowsprit were overheard.
but part of her deckload of lumber was still
on her. She was in sixteen fathoms of
water The Balano sailed from Jackson
Vile, September &, for Portland. She was
of 45S tons and had crew of about seven.
She was built twelve years ago at st.
George, Me.
The German steamer Carl Mcneil passed
in the Virginia capes yesterday towing the
schooner City Of Georgetown, with her sails
gone and partially waterlogged. She was
picked up off Hatteras by the Mcneil, which
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