New-York tribune., 1910-12-17
,e derelict schooner Stephen

search Of the derelict schooner Stephen
G. Leud.
The blizzard tore the three-masted
schooner Thomas r. Garland. OF Ports
mouth n. H.. from an apparently safe
anchorage underneath Handkerchief
Shoals. across Nantucket Sound, and
tossed her into the icy breakers inside
Of Great Point Light. Nantucket, at 2:30
g. IN. to-day. The half frozen crew, one
Of them badly injured, was brought
ashore at daylight by Captain John B.
Norcross and his sturdy crew of the
Ccskata lifesaving station. Mate Daniel
Larson was SO severely injured as to re-
Quire surgical treatment.
Probably Total Wreck.
The vessel will probably be a total
wreck The Garland loaded coal at
South Amboy and sailed from that port
for Salem, Mass, on December q. She
was riding at anchor last night near
Handkerchief Shoal in a moderate
southwesterly wind, which suddenly
hauled into the northwest, eventually
reaching hurricane proportions Both
anchor chains parted. and the vessel was
blown ten miles across Nantucket Sound
until she fetched up inside Of Great
Point 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 on the inner bar. hundred yards
of the beach
The early morning north patrol, from
the Coskata station, caught the dim out
lines of the vessel in the whirling snow
storm. and Immediately burned his torch
The signal was caught by the watch at
the station, and before the surfmen
reached the house the entire crew had
started for the wreck. Captain Nor
cross, of the station. brought along the
gun and breeches buoy, but when he
reached point on the beach opposite
the stranded schooner he decided to use
the lifeboat, as 1t was evident that the
crew was too badly frostbitten to haul
aboard the breeches buoy hawser-
Captain Norcross waited until day
light in order TO gauge the height of the
seas. and then his men plunged the life
boat through the surf and started for
the schooner. The one hundred yards
from beach to schooner against the fear
full seas was covered only after an
hours battle, in which all the lfesavers
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. Captain Wallace
being the last to leave the deck.
Sighted Soon After Sunrise.
The Stephen G. Loud had doubled Cape
Cod yesterday when she began to leak
The crew pumped steadily until the cabin
was flooded and the seven members Of
her crew were finally driven to the after
house There they were clinging when
the northwest blizzard, with its biting
cold set in last night. Although drenched
by every wave that swept the decks and
nearly stupefled by cold, they held on
until the Halifax steamer sighted them
shortly after sunrise.
The steamer bore down on the schocn-
er. and in attempting to make lee
fouled the Loud and had some Of her
plates damaged. The Loud's crew
launched their own boats and rowed 10
the Perry. Several OF the crew were
frcstbitten When last seen the Loud
was twenty three miles east southeast
of Boston Light and was drifting be-
fore the gale toward the end Of Cape
Coo.
The Margaret cruised along the cape
Cod coast all day to-day searching for
her two missing barges, and viii start
out again tomorrow with the tug Daniel
Willard. On board the Margaret when
she returned here tonight were Captain
George West. Of Oyster Bay. and three
men who were rescued with him from
their barge. the haywood
The Margaret left here with her tow
yesterday morning, and under favora Bile
weather had passed Nauset about S
p. m. when the wind changed suddenly
| to north thence to east-northeast. and
increased TO a violent gale. with binding
snow.
Heading into great seas. the tug
slowly ploughed its way north. with the
rarges in tow, the haywood first. then
the Scranton and the Binghamton bring
ing up the rear At B a m. to-day it was
discovered that the towing hawsers had
parted and that the Scranton and the
Binghamton were adrift They were not
seen again.
The Margaret held fast to the May
wood, which had sprung leak during
the night, but at S a. m. to-day Captain
West set his flag union down for assist
ance when. with eight feet of water in
her hold. il was found the haywood
must be soon abandoned. Twenty min
utes after the tug had taken the May
woods crew aboard the barge went down
with her cargo Of 400 tons Of coal
The missing barges Scranton and Bing-
hamton were, like the haywood, owned
by the Erie Railroad. Aboard the Bing
hamton were Captain J. E Nickerson, of
pennisport, Mass, and three men, and
the Scranton carried Captain Grady, of
Everett, Mass. and his two sailors.