The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-04-11
ITEM RESCUED FROM
A WATERY GRAVE
LIFE SAVERS BRING ASHORE
CREW OF SCHOONER.
CAROLINA COAST WRECK
Two Women Among Those Hauled to
Safety in Breaches Buoy
Story Of GuIfport's
/ Founderlng.

Norfolk, Va, April S.-Ten persons,
two of whom are women, were res
cued from death by Capt. Etheridge
and his crew of life savers at the
Mays Head IN. CO. station early Sun.
day, when the four-masted schooner
Louis Bossart was blown ashore by
the heavy northeast gale that has pre-
vailed along the Virginia. Carolina
coast for the past 48 hours.
The schooner was bound from New
York, to Virgins, s. c., for a cargo,
and was swept out of her course by
the storm. Shortly after midnight she
ran on the beach and was discovered
In the breakers by a coastguard from
the Mays Head station. On account
of the high sea no attempt was made
to launch the boats. A line was shot
over the schooner and the breeches
buoy was run out. When the surfmen
pulled it in they were surprised to
find young woman as its passenger.
She is the daughter Of Capt. Fletcher
of the wrecked craft. Then one by
one the seven members of the schoon-
er's crew were hauled to safety
through the seas, and on the last trip
Capt. Fletcher came in.
Reports from Mays Head over the
governments coast wires say the
schooner is high on the shore, but
seemingly in good condition.
The schooner Laura L. Sprague,
Capt. Pierce, of Marblehead, Mass,
ran ashore off Cracoke Inlet, N. c.,
Sunday. She is Of 564 net tonnage
and carries a crew of six or seven
men. Late advices are that life savers
have succeeded in getting ashore all
the schooner's crew.
Survivors of Foundered Bark.
New York, April S-Nearly every
vessel that has arrived from southern
ports during the last week has
brought some story of marine disas-
ter wrought by the cyclone off Hat.
teras during the last ten days of
March. The Bleucher, arriving Sun
day from West Indian ports, was no
exception. Standing in disconsolate
groups about her decks were luck
less 10, which the liner had saved
from their laundering bark, the Gulf
port, as the vessel was on the verge
of going down. The rescue was wit
messed by Speaker Joseph G. Cannon
and others of the congressional party
who were on board the Bleucher
1t was a weary band which the life
boat of the liner took from the water
logged wreck. They we're near star
walton. as for nearly week they had
had nothing to live on except few
water-soaked biscuits. In their every
posture was the utter WEAKNESS which
had come of three days and nights Of
unceasing and, what oft seemed hope
less, toll to keep the wreck afioat
Rescue Not Difficult.
1t was shortly after eight o'clock
on the morning of Thursday last that
the word went around the Bleucher
that the vessel had altered her course
to head for wreck which had been
sighted, and that a rescue was about
to be attempted. Little difficulty at
tended the work of rescue. The life
boat, in charge of Chief Officer Boyer,
was lowered from the Bleucher and
rowed to the wreck. Into this went
Capt. Larsen of the bark and IL mem
hers of his crew.
There was large black dog on
board. The animal had been injured
by falling spar, and as the boat was
already too deeply laden for safety,
and it was not thought that the dog
could survive its injuries, one of the
men killed it with Delaying pin and
threw the body overheard.