Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-01-26
SHIP ANDCREWL LOST
Swallow Is Wrecked Off Long
Island Shore.
TWELVE MEN THOUGHT DEAD
Disaster Takes Place in snowstorm,
and Dozen Are Supposed to Be
Drowned-Little Craft Hailed from
st. Johns.

New York, Jan. 19.-Hopelessly
fighting against the combined fury of
a binding snow, intense cold, biting
wind and stormy sea, the little schoon-
err Swallow of st. Johns. Newfound-
land, was pounded to destruction by
the waves off Long Island, and her
crew gave up their lives with the YES
sell
The story of the wreck, or so much
as is known of it, was told by the sea
itself, for it strewed the beach east of
Fire island for several miles with bits
of wreckage from the ship itself and
from her cargo On some of this
flotsam appeared the name Swallow,
St. Johns, N F." and this told the
beach men who found the wreckage
what vessel it was that had pounded
itself to pieces in few short hours
in the bowling gale.
No Trace Of the Crew.
OF the crew, probably five or six
men judging from the schooner's size,
there was not trace But looking out
at the wildly tossing seas and the
thick, driving snow with its attending
bitter cold, the beach men knew their
fate. No human power could have
aided them
1t was at two o'clock in the morning
while beach man from the Blue Point
life saving station, few miles east of
Fire island, was toiling through the
storm on the lookout for trouble at
sea, that he saw some black objects
bobhing about in the tumbling surf
close to shore He hauled some of
them in and, finding it was new wreck
age, hurried back to his station to re-
port and to secure aid. Other beach
men soon were on the scene, hauling
in the flotsam and making a study of
it such as these men do There were
timbers, new lumber, frozen herring
and fishing tackle and finally they
came to sign board which told the
unfortunate vessels name.
The life savers stood by and pa
trolled the beach all day in the hope
that they might find some trace of the
crew, but nightfall came and their
quest had been vain.
Lost Their Bearings in Storm.
1t is supposed that the Swallow, pre-
sumably fisherman, was bound from
Newfoundland to New York with 8
cargo OF frozen herring and that she
carried a deckload of lumber to help
make the trip pay Caught in the
storm, the crew probably lost their
bearings and struck on one of the
many sandbars mile or so off shore
near the Blue Point station. There the
wind and heavy seas pounded the yes
sci to pieces in short time and the
men were speedily lost in the sea
The Swallow, according to the Marine
Register, was a small schooner of q
tons She was built 80 years ago al
Mooses river and was owned by Johr
Dawson of st Johns
Carried About Twelve Men.
st. Johns, NJ f., Jan. 19.-The
schooner Swallow left here fortnight
ago laden with herring for Gloucester
Mass. She hailed from Pilley islant
and the master and men also belonged
there. The Swallow carried abou
twelve men, When leaving here sh'
had aboard Capt. Daggett, an Ameri
can herring packer, who loaded thu
vessel for the market. 1t is not know
here whether Capt. Daggett wa
aboard when the schooner was lost, a
he may have left her at Gloucester.