Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-03-08
Passed by the Crew Of
Sch, Lizzie Chadwick
On the Cabin House, with a
Little Macar0ni and Water.
Rescued BY Heroic Sailors ia a Fierce
Sale OF Cape natieras.

Gloucester. Mass. March AFTER an
exposure Of 60 hours on the cabin house
of the wreck of the Thomaston, Me-,
schooner Lizzie Chadwick, in the
height of a Cape Hatteras hurricane
with only a little macaroni and water
for food and drink, Capt. Thomas w.
Hart and his crew of seven men were
brought into this port Wednesday by
the British schooner H. H. Kitchener
from the barbados for St. John, n. B.
Their rescue by Capt X. Haghn and
crew of the Kitchener was most thrill
ing and opportune, having been effect
ed In a terrific sea on the shoals of
Hatteras. The rescued men are:
Capt. Thomas F. Hart. Tenants
Harhor, Me-; Mate o. E. Murphy, Ten
ants Harbor. Me-; Cook George Kim
ball, Tenants HarbOr, Me-; BENZ. Dick,
Anderson Franklin, Thomas Hartell, A.
N. Butler and Alec Oudane, colored
seamcn. with home in the South.
The Chadwick left Mayport. Fla.
Feb. %, with a cargo of yellow pine
lumber for New York. Four days up
t1he coast she met favorable weather.
On the fifth, however. while on Cape
Hatteras they ran into revolving
cyclone which stripped the craft OF
her sails and ncesSitated cutting away
the masts.
The wrecked schooner wallowed for
hours helpless in the trough of the sea
with the water pouring i'm through her
strained seams and finally the captain
and crew were driven to the roof of the
cabin house for safety. The cargo of
lumber kept them bravely afloat and
with only few packages of macaroni
and jug of water, saved by the crew
from the store room, they chung to
their scanty support all day Tuesday
and Wednesday with the waves break
ing over them continually. Distress sig
mails were made with what little cloth
ing the men could spare, but not until
Thursday was a sail sighted.
The sailors became almost deliriOus
with joy as they saw large schooner
bearing down towards them, but lying
as they did so low in the water their
improvised signals were not seen and
to- their keen disappointment the
strange vessel passed by.
Just as the men were about to give
up the Kitchener hove in sight and saw
their distress, lacking instantly to lay
alongside the Chadwick. The tremen-
dOus sea that always runs in a Halter
as storm made an attempt to launch Il
boat extremely perilous, but picked
crew from the Kitchener in large
dory brought all the men off in safety
Capt Hart i'm telling Of his expert
ences said:
"Ail went well with us after leaving
Mayport Feb. g until we came off Hat
teras on the 26th. There we ran into a
revolving hurricane. The wind was ter
rifle. 1t blew up and down and all
around us and bore away all our sails.
We had to cut away the maSts to
steady the schooner and then she be-
gan to sink in the water The forecastle
and deck house became flooded and we
lad to get up on the cabin house roof.
1t looked bad for us. The weather was
freezing cold and we were soaked in
water nearly every minute. On March
/ we sighted a schooner several miles
off. but she did not see our signals and
we thought it was all up with us. Some
of the men wanted to go overheard, but
the rest Of us watched them pretty
sharply. / don't think we could have
held on much longer when shortly after
noon the Kitchener came UP. Capt.
HduEnu ana HIS crew UcItStNcu Splci-
didly. There was nasty sea on but he
got us all off in good shape and gave us
fine treatment on board the Kitchener.
We were all badly used up. but nothing
serious"
Capt. Hart reports seeing quantities
Of wreckage near the scene of the
Chadwick's experience with large
amount of railroad ties in the vicinity
and 1t is presumed that the Chadwick
was in the same storm and at about
the same place in which the Mary
Manning was lost and the crew rescued
by the steamer Casilda. Capt. Harris
legs were badly frozen and his condi-
ton was worse than that of the rest
of the crew. With the mate and cook
he went to his home in Tenants Har-
Dor while the colored seamen were
given transportation to New York.
The Lizzie Chadwick was built at
Thomaston. Me-. in 1883 and was owned
at that port by Dunn. Elliot & Co. She
was 1857 feet long with breadth Of
S5.3 feet and a depth of hold of lis.
Her gross tonnage was 472 and her net
AS. She was valued at $4,000 and her
cargo at $4,000. Capt. Hart did not
know whether or not she was insured.