New-York tribune., 1911-09-01
SIX SAVED FROM WRECK
IN STORM ARRIVE HERE
The Mohawk Brings Men Found
~ LaShed to Rigging OF
Sinking Schooner.
ONE SWEPT INTO TIE SEA
Captain of Vessel Raving When
Cut Free and Dragged Into
Lifeboat-Crew In Peril
During Entire Night.

The Clyde liner Mohawk steamed in from
Charleston yesterday with all but one of
the. shipwrecked crew OF the four-masted
schooner Malcolm B. Seavey safe and dry
aboard Only forty hours before these six
men. lashed 10 the rigging Of their vessel
had made a desperate fight for their lives.
The Seavey, which had sailed from Tam
pico. Mexico. with a cargo OF rock cement.
dlved into the Charleston hurricane on
GEORGETOWN. S c., on Monday. Captain
Dodge anchored TO ride out the storm. but
the anchor dragged. and driven along by
ninety mile wind the vessel backed on to a
reef and then swung broadside and
pounded while the white seas carried away
her fore and main masts. The captain and
his crew Of six made for what rigging re-
mained. TO lash themselves securely
against the inevitable breakup, but in the
attempt a Portuguese sailor, known only
as Tony was caught by comber ana
swept from sight like a chip
E p. Southard the first mate; the second
mate. Norton; the cook. the engineer and
another sailor made themselves fast to the
mizzenmast. while the captain lashed HIM
self to the jigger Soon the stern sank and
the captain was submerged to his armpits
Numb from the cold, famished and weak,
the six thus spent the hideous night
When the dawn of Tuesday broke the cap
tain was raving. He shouted orders to his
men as If he still strobe the deck. breaking
in now and then 20 inpioro them to lei him
go down with his ship
The Mohawk. northbound from Jack
sonvine put into Charleston Sunday
yorrp{.tp and I'm Charleston
- harbor she remained through the worst
Of the storm which swept the city Tues
day morning Captain Edmund Kemble
started north, although the storm had
hardly abated and the seas ducked and
worried his vessel she burrowed along.
Soon an insistcnt message from sister
ship the Comanche. began repeating itself
in the wireless room.
-Four masted schooner on reef seven
miles off GEORGETOWN. Needs help badly
IL said over and over again.
The Comanche hove in sight on the hori-
zon. but soon disappeared again, fight
ing her way south. Captain Kemble
changed his course diagonally toward
land. creeping in slowly as he made fire.
ouent soundings Soon the schooner ap-
peared. dangerously near land, bow up
and stern under, swept by foamng comb
ers, pounding and grinding on the reef.
AS the Mohawk worked in closer Captain
Kenble could make out the men lashed TO
the mizzenmast.
He called for volunteers 10 man the
small boat that should attempt the peril
Gus rescue. Most of his crew responded.
and when the Mohawk had got within an
eighth Of a mile Of the schooner she low
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the first mate. the little craft jockeyed
carefully for life as her oarsmen pulled
her nearer and nearer the wreck Mr.
Coles shouted to the schooner's crew to
make a line fast TO the jibboom of the
vessel and one by one 10 swing from IL
and drop into his boat as she fought for
position underneath
The roar Of the wind and waves made
tiny quaver Of his voice, so that he had
TO tear his throat reiterating his instruc-
tions Slowly the stiff. weak men freed
themselves from the mizzenmast, and, with
the ropes which had bound them, they
pieced out a line and made II fast 10 the
bowsprit. A negro sailor was the first TO
grab il and dangle until he dropped to
safety, and then. one by one, the four
others followed suit.
The captain however, had 10 be cut from
his half-submerged position and dragged
bodily into the boat. still raving, he was
turned over 10 the Mohawk's surgeon when
rescued and rescuers had safely got aboard
the steamer Later he recovered, and when
he and his mates landed yesterday none
seemed the worse for his experience.
The Mohawk made a record run from
Charleston to New York, considering the