Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-16
MANY VESSELS IN DISTRESS
Schooners Reported Wrecked From
Nantucket to Portsmouth, N. H.
LIFE SAVERS TAKE OFF CREWS
Working Heroically in the Face of
Bitter Cold and Binding
Snow.

tIWeSt6Ily DllZZdTu lOIe Tile CHIcS-
masted schooner Thomas B. Garland of
Portsmouth, y. H., from an apparently
safe anchorage underneath Handkerchief
| shoals across Nantucket sound. and tossed
her into the icy breakers inside of Great
Point light at 2:3O am. today. The half
frozen crew, one of them badly injured
were brought ashore at daylight by Capt.
NorcroSs and his crew of the Coskata
life-saving station. ante Daniel Larson
was so severely injured as to require
surgical treatment.
The vessel probably will be a total
wreck. The Garland loaded with coal at
South Amboy, and sailed from that port
for Salem. Mass. December 6.
The vessel struck heavily on the outer
bar. but the great seas soon lifted her
over that sandy barrier into deeper water
and then threw her with terrific force
OH the inner bar, a hundred yards of the
beach.
The early morning north patrol from
Coskata hfe-saving station caught the
dim outlines of the vessel in the whirling
snowstorm and Immediately burned his
torch. The signal was caught by the
watch at the station and the entire crew
started for the wreck.
Benumbed by Frost.
Capt. Norcross Of the station brought
along the gun and breeches buoy, but
when he reached a point on the beach
opposite the stranded schooner he decided
to use the lifeboat, as it was evident
that the crew was too badly FROST tbitten
to haul aboard the breeches buoy hawser
Capt. Norcross waited until daylight in
order to gauge the height Of the seas,
and then his men plunged the lifeboat
through the surf and started for the
schooner
The one hundred yards from beach to
schooner against the fearful seas was
only covered after an hours battle in
which all the lffe-savers were drenched.
On getting in the lee of the schooner
the crew of the lifeboat brought her near
enough SO that the injured mate could
be lowered into the boat, and then the
crew Of the Garland followed, one by one,
Capt Wallace being the last to leave the
deck.
The Thomas B. Garland was built at
Bath, Me-. in 1881, halls from Ports
mouth. N. H.. and is owned by Frank
Neatly of Dover, n. H. She registered
215 tons.
Revenue Cutters Called On.
CHATHAM Mass. December 16-The
dawn of the coolest day Of the season to-
day disclosed two schooners flying dis
tress signals near Chatham. One Of the
vessels was q two-masted schooner an
chored off Old Harbor. and the other, a
three-master, was anchored near Stone
Horse shoal. of Monomoy point Both
schOoners were flying their cOlOrs union
down. Because of a sea kicked up by an
ever-increasing northwest gale, it was i'm
possible for the life-savers Of either the
Old Harbor or the Monomoy point sta
ton to go to the assistance of the dis
night and today the air was filled with
mist and snow, making 1t impossible for
shore observers to determine the identity
of either craft
Acushnet were notified by wireless and
started at once for the scene.
Puts in Disabled.
PORTSMOUTH. n. H., December 16.-
The three-masted schooner Annie f.
Conlon, three weeks out on a trip
from Philadelphia to Calais. Me-, put
into Portsmouth harbor today in a
disabled condition. Considerable anx-
iety has been felt for the craft, as she
had not been reported since leaving
Philadelphia. twenty-one days ago.
When the Conlon arrived here today
several OF her minor spars were miss
ing and she was completely incased in
ice.
The schooner was caught off Ports
mouth in last nights northerly gale
and snowstorm and was barely able to
reach port.
Schooner Cole Lost
SIASCONSET, Mass, December 16.-A
wireless dispatch from the revenue
cutter Gresham announced the total
loss Of the Machias Port (Me.) three
masted schooner Abbie G. Cole on
Stone Horse shoal. The crew of seven
was rescued by the cutter.
The Cole was bound from Albany,
N Y, for Boston.