Evening journal., 1907-11-25
SAVE CREW
FROM WRECKED
SCHOONER
The 5. N. Bird Was Blown
Ashore, and Others Weathsr
the Gale
ONE LIFE LOST IN STORM

LEWES. Dol. Nov. 25-Refusing to
leave the lumber-laden schooner $. NJ.
Bird when e was blown ashore yester-
day morning. Captain Bohld and his
crow had &c be removed from the seu-
pounled craft ut o'clock this morning
by the crew of the Lewos and Reho-
both lfesavlns station
Mrs. Bohld and her child were taken
from tine leachcd schooner yesterday
by the life savers, but Captain Hohld
stubbornly refused to 80 ashore ana
the crew stood by the boat with hirn.
During the night the storm increased
in fury, ana every minute threatened
60 tear the schooner 10 pieces In
order 20 save Captain Bohld ana tho
crew the life savers had TO turn out ia
the darkness and had a oerilous task
The two coal harges abandoned by
the tugboat Luckenbach. when the tug
raced 10 tie pier yesterday TO try 20
save ho life OF Walker the injured
oller, wehe recovered to-day in good
condition.
There is much feeling here because
the surgeons a tthe government marine
hospital because OF rel tape. declined
70 treat Walker when an operation
might have saved his life.
DELAWARE BREAKWATER, Del.
Nov 25.-The northeast gale whlca
swept along the Atlantic coast yester-
day was especially severe i'm this vi
cinity one life was last as "a direct re-
suit Of the heavy seas and ascho)ner
was blown ashore and IS to-day In dam
ger of being pounded to pieces All
vessels kept within the harbor and
some had trouble in preventing their
anchors from dragging and being blown
ashore
The schooner S. NJ Bird with a
cargo of lumber from Charleston, $. c..
for New York. parted both anchor
lchains while anchored or Cape Hen
llopon ana was blown o nthe beach at
Lewes about . o'cloc sin the aftec-
moon.
Rescue Woman and Child
The I.ewes life-saving crew at once
iwent TO the assistance of the schooner's
crew and brought ashore Captain
Boldts wife and child. The surf was
running high and the life-ravers had
lgreat difficulty In getting ashore with
1.-THE woman and her child Captain
/ ISohld and his crow refused to leave the
vessel The schooner is thlrty-three
years old and may be pounded 20
pieces.
William j. Walker of Grace Point,
/ Va, am oilcr on the ocean-golng tug
Luckenbach, was pitched against tho
machinery he was oiling by the rolling
lof the tug aud his left leg was badly
lcrusned walker was landed at Lewes
pier tn receive medical aid, but he died
from loss OF blood.
Captain E-sr of tho tug Luckonbach
lappued at the United statos Marias
Hospital for help, but the physician ir
Icomnand refused TO give aid. over
latter being told the mans life probably
iderended upon Immediate assistance
merely saying:
Patients are not treated here"
Vessels Seek Shelter
with the wind blowing at the rate II
sixty miles am hour, a big fleet Of ves-
|vols OF an descriptions sought shelter
behind the huge stone wall at the
Breakwaier. The coal barge Charlie.
iK. Nicholas and piotboat Edmunds
dragged their anchors and drifted nt,
leach other. The Edmunds lost o..
bowsprit Md headgcar
The light on the east end OF thC
IBrcakwafer was carried away. making
liz difficult for vessels TO safely make
the harbor