The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-13
BIG LINER RAMS A SCHOONER
THREL MEN DROWNED WIEN
TBE NATALIE MCPHERSON SANK.
Ror,anlc 81 the white star line Piouxned
Tnroush Her on Nantucke ct on Thurs.
day Night Frftecn OF the Crew Saved
--Cepthin's Dos Helps Film Reach ship.

through Her on Nantuck ct on Thurs.
day Nlght-Frftecn OF the Crew Saved
--Cepthin's Dos Helps Him Reach ship.
Fifteen typical Yankee fishermen had an
Involuntary trip TO this port last evening
aboard the lofty sided White Star liner Ro-
nanic. in from the Mediterranean and
Azores by way Of Boston. They left three
O, their shipmstes drowned in twenty
seven fathoms of the South Shoal light
ship Nantucket
The spokesman Of the survivors. Atwell
P PAWS, is a youngster Of "a. fair haired,
blue eyed and six feet tall. He and veteran
fisherman. John A. Miller, we're on watch
on deck Of the auxiliary fishing schooner
Natalie B. Nickerson of East Boothbay,
Me. at midnight on Thursday. when the
Romantic, %loafng at quarter speed through
q fog az thick as cheese. carved m the
httle fsherman's stern. She sank within a
minute after she was struck.
The Nickerson had put out from New
port on Tuesday, using mostly sail in her
trip to the fishing ground. She was
equipped with two dories and a seine boat
End her game was nsckerei. She had
gathered a cargo valued at about 81 900
end was jogging under fore and main sails
and what the Yankee sailorman called a
Jumbo" which he explained was n big
forestaysail, when the towering prov
Of the Romantic appeared through the mist.
The frst thought OF young Davis was
for the safety Of his shipmates. He ran
Oft and shouted TO the six men sleeping
IN the house and then going forward
aroused the rest Of the fishermen In the
foreclstle with the cry All hands on deck!
Steameri"
Fishermen are prepared for emergencies
cf this sort, and nearly every man was on
deck within half a minute after he had been
rrolsed. Some of the old fellows appar-
emily purely through instinct grabbed up
their rubber boots, but they didn't have
tine 10 put them on. Before the last man
was up the companion ladder the shsrp
cItwater OF the Romantic was nearly half
way through the little schooner.
The big liner struck the fisherman on the
sisrbosrd side between the house and tho
malnlnas.. The seine boat which was
towing astern and a dory on the after deck
were of necessity cut of from the use OF
the men, who had fed forward where there
vas one dory bottom up on deck. In
emergency a dory has the capacity of a big
steamship's lfeboat. There was practically
no sea. The fishermen had hardly time
10 turn the boat right side up before the
schooner was submerged. She actually
launched herself, and some Of the men
were forced TO Chamber into her from the
water over the deck Of the Nickerson.
Ilnven Of the Nickerson's crew of eighteen
we're in the dory when the schooner sank
within a ships length of them. Before
rho went down her topmsst scra ped the
pant on the port how Of the Romantic and
tent several stsnchions on the main deck.
The fact that the little ships topmast
reached only to the main deck Of the liner
indicates how small a craft the fisherman
was.
capt. John =. Seavey Of the Nickerson,
Burt Wylie, able seaman and fisherman,
who had lost his right arm in a wreck
wears ego: Everett Greenleaf. the father
of the cook, Charles Greenleaf: Elwell
Greenleaf, uncle OF the cook, and Charles
+. Beetle, a young fellow from Maine and
thu s ma Hest and most athletic man aboard
ship, we're among those who Owed into
the water Immediately after getting on
dsok. They saw the immense impending
Prov fnd believed that the only safety was
III npiny into the sea.
PJette came up in the Deighborhood Of
RS skinrer, and right astern of him was
-" skipper's water spaniel making an
effort 10 follow his master. The dog was
enrorol on the log of the Roma mic az Spot
S"fNey. TIL captain has the impression
ihrt 10 swan around a long time before
hs doI got alongs.de Of him and with the
hclp Of Bejette kept him afoat. The
90 tain WIS not a good swimmer and needed
the neck Of his faithful dog to rest his right
ann on. The night was intensely dark and
II wss mr. ossible to see from the stes mship
even ~" wrccksge of he tiny fisherman.
Two lifeboats were lowered within five
N mites rfter the schooner had been cut
down he engines having been reversed
immediately. The officers in charge OF the
liohoa's burned blue lights 10 indicate to
tho ras'aways where they might find succor.
tn" crews Of the lifeboats heard the shouts
of he mon in the dory and one OF the life
bots was soon alongside. The eleven men
in he dory were quickly transferred to the
ste, mship. boarding her by the sea ladder.
'"' INV iiVptt WViAN WV "sHhh
Tor ether survivors.
The skipper was picked up with his dog
and the gallant Bejette. as was also the
cock, Charles Greenleaf. and Miller.
Capt Seavey mustered his crew aboard
the Romantic and found that three men
were missing. Burt Wylie and the two elder
Greenleafs. The lifeboats went out again
and searched the sea within a adius OF
several miles. meanwhile burning blue
lights while the officers in charge shouted
through megaphones. but they found no
trace Of the missing men. Some OF the
Survivors recalled that they had seen tho
one armedm man clinging 10 . spar and that
ne seemed to be injured. Nothing was seen
Heither OF the Greenleafs after they went
overheard. It is not improbable from the
viewpoint Of their shipmates that they
vent down in the suction caused by the
sinking If the schooner.
Capt Beadnell OF the Romantic says that
ne was feeling his way through the fog and
was himself nm tho hridoa in charga of the