Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-30
RAMMED BY FOUR-MASTER
Unidentified Steamer Founders OFF
Diamond Shoals.
TWO ScH0ONERS ARE ASHORE
Life Savers Rescue Crew of Helena
in Massachusetts,
Bay.

NEW YORK. January 3o.-The Scotland
lghtship is flying signals Of distress. call
ing for immediate assistance. The rev.
enue cutter Mohawk has set out to aid
the lightship.
A four -masted schooner during the
storm this morning ran into and dam
aged the lightship, staving in her bow
and breaking her anchor chain.
The famous Scotland lightship. anchored
off the Highlands of Navesink and mark
ing the entrance to New York harbor.
was run into and damaged by the
schooner during the heavy snowstorm to-
day.
The lightship called for immediate as
sistance. In response the Mohawk. which
was lying at anchor off Tompkinsvile.
Staten Island, rushed down the bay un-
der full head Of steam.
Two Schooners Standing By.
Information of the collision was sent
to the Office of the United Wireless
Telegraph Company in this city by the
wireless operator on board the Clyde line
steamer Arapahoe, which was coming into
port from Jacksonville.
Capt. Chichester of the Arapahoe
sighted the lightship in the storm. See
ing the signals Of distress he went along
side
He was informed that a schooner had
fouled the bow of the light vessel. The
extent of the damage was not stated
Soon after the collision the snowfall
ceased and the observers on shore dis
covered two large schooners anchored
near the lightship One Of these was be-
lieved to be the Perry Setter, bound from
Philadelphia to Boston. Whether either
.of them fouled the lightship could not
be ascertained then.
| Soon afterward the tug Reliance cam
up the lower bay towing the water
logged schooner j. S. Lamprey.
Unidentified Steamer Founders.
ELIZABETH CITY, n. c.. January so.
The Diamond shoals lightship reports
that an unidentified steamer foundered
during the storm today. about three
miles northwest of the lightship
No boats from the steamer or wreck
age is to be seen. The fate Of the crew
is not known.
The wind is blowing from the south
west at the rate of forty-five miles an
hour The sea is rough.
| The steamer City of Savannah. which
| passed Cape Lookout bound south this
| morning reports that the Cape Lookout
| lightShip is Off her station.
Helena's Crew Rescued.
SCITI'ATE. Mass. January 3o.-Drivins
in through a binding northeast snow
storm at daybreak today, the three-masteo
schooner Helena. lumber laden. from
Savannah to Portland. Me-. brought uT
on the rocky beach right under the Forth
cliff on the south shore of Massachu-
| SettS bay.
| The vessel came in so close to the cliff
that the crew of the Forth cliff life
I saving station had no difficulty In hrlnG
| a line across the rigging and pulling the
/, Helena eight men to land.
| AS wind and sea are heavy, II is feared
that the schooner will pound herself to
| pieces.
The Helena is owned in New York and
| was built at Bath. Ne. in llGo She reg
| listers 619 gross tonnage.
Two Schooners Ashore.
TARPAULIN COVE. Mass. January
:so-The three-masted schooner Arthur NJ
| Gibson from ST. john, y. B., for New
| York with lumber. was torn from her
moorings in the cove today by southeast
gale and driven ashore. The crew made
nc escort to leave the vessel. as she
grounded well inside the cove.
| Adyices received by the life-Saving
service state that the schooner ashore
of Four n Cliff lfe-saving station Is tile
American schooner Helena. with cargo
| Of lumber and crew of eight.
| The crew mas been landed by aid Of
the breeches buoy. The vessel IS prob
ably the schooner Helena. which sailed
from Savannah. January is. for Port
land, Me. commanded by Capt. Cum
mings.
The Helena is Of 50l tons. and was
built in Bath. Me. in 1900. Her home
port is New York