New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-18
SAILOR LOST IN WRECK
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and at last the other man picked him up bodily
and flung him into the sea. The crew i'm the
boat reached for the line which had been made
fast to him. and he dragged aboard There
was another cheer for the last man in the life
boat and very tumult Of a celebration when
the boat at last tore in on great roller and her
men rushed her safe mp on the beach through
the broken water
RESCUED MEN RUSHED To HOTEL.
The rescued men were hurried 10 the hotel at
the head OF Joyous procession. whole suite
Of rooms was turned 10 them. and guests
and servants alike ransacked their wardrobes to
Mt them out dry. There was breakfast In the
grillroom. with something warm and cheering
for such wanted II. and a feast with similar
embellishments served in the rooms for
such as preferred privacy. The man who had
been thrown overheard was the Mexican cook
known only Josh Billings" He is sixty
seven years old. and was unconscious when he
reached dry ground. He revived immedi-
ately. and came out little the worse for IT,
There was another side of the story. that Of
Ira Small. the captain. He told II in the grill
room. with A circle Of summer people around.
anxious TO help him out
We left Sandy Hook Sunday ncon.' he said
bound for Mayport, Fla with coal siftings for
the Florida hotels. The storm caught us and
We 1elQ southeast TOT barneEat We soon saw
never could make IT, and so We made east ny
north. TO hold our own II could until It blew
] figured that on the course we held We
would be twenty miles of Montauk ny daylight
with plenty of room spare. We must
have drifted near a hundred miles 10 fetch up
like this.
Toward daylight IT was all thick with rain.
with big wind from the southeast We saw
lights ahead. which ] took at first 10 be
liners. Then made out they were ashore
and tried 10 wear. Just she was coming
about she struck and carried away her rudder.
Except for that I think could have made
shift TO get of. She showed forward on the next
and struck again. She struck six times be-
fore she was fast. and rode ahead three times
her length. She was an old boat thirty-ive
years more. and heavy and she opened up
right away.
We got out on the jibboom az We saw she
wasn't going over In fifteen minutes after she
first struck her decks blew on; from the press
Of the air she sank. She lay fast in the
sand where she is now. In a few minutes We
saw the red lights 81 tho patrol. but couldn't
answer. Then by daylight saw the wreck
ing coming We couldn't reach the line
they got out, and We had to wait for the surf
boat"
Watchers on the beach during the afternoon
said that the schooner's foremost WAS swayinE
az II she We're breaking apart Some of 't.
Young men Of the beach swan ont 10 the wreck
on a dare. but brought hack little news except
that she sure was sight" James Brown.
fourteen years old. the Jamaican cabin boy
and the captains ward. had his ankle painfully
squeezed by a floating spar but without ser-
Gus injury. The rest Of the crew We're UNI
harmed. They Lester Davis the mate; Fred
Carlson. Fred Bauer Carl Petersen and Fred
Brown. Captain Small was part owner Of the
vessel which was practically uninsured. She
was OF 500 tons register and drew seventeen
feet OF water.