New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-04
CAPTAINS DAUGHTERS
IN THE BREECHES BUOY
Leave Their Father on Wrecked
Schooner, Too III To Be
Taken Ashore.
TWO OF CREW WITH HIM
Seas So High Shinnecock Life
savers Have to Send Line
Aboard Vessel-Mate and
Five Sailors Taken Off.

seven persons. including two daugh-
ttrs of the captain. were rescued from
the four-mas sted schooner Carrie A. Lane
that ran ashore at o'clock yesterday
morning about mile east of the Shin
necock Lifesaving Station, on Long
Island Captain c. NJ. Strattcn. in COM
nand Of the vessel. refused to leave his
POST on board. He is suffering from
Southern fever. II is feared that an at
tempt TO remove him might result in his
death
The schooner was bound from Pasca-
eoula. Miss, for Boston, with cargo
of yellow pine ties The steersman SAYS
he lost his reckoning. Owing TO the fact
that the vessel ran aground al high tue
and pushed her bow deep into the SAND
there may he much trouble getting her
efoat
Thrilling resCues were made by .
hreeches buoy manned by the lifesaVlng
crew. In the vague laht of an hour AL
3 half before sunrise a man patrolling the
beach distinguished the disabled schooner
pounding in a moderately heavy sea
about three hundred yards from shore.
Word was quickly flashed TO the sta
tion. and Captain A. {. Tenny. in charge
of that part of the beach. Immediately
TOOK measures to relieve the situation.
Rv this time the crew on board the
vessel were flashing signals for help
These were answered by Captain Tenny
ft,til M
any attempt TO launch lifeboats in A
sea that WAS running SO high. He shot
line 10 the schooner. and the aim was
true The lire was eagerly caught 10y
the crew on board and made fast TO the
vessel The breeches were then slipped
on pulleys and the two young women
we're brought TO shore safely
After the captains daughters had been
rescued the first mate and four seamen
we're brought to the beach by the same
method. The second mate and one sea
man remained on the schooner with cap
tain Stratton ATTEMPTS are now beng
made by the lfesavers to reach the
stranded schooner by lifebQats' but inc
wind and high seas have thus lar
thwarted their efforts.
l-pou reaching the beach the captain S
daughters were cared for by Miss Eliza
beth Tenny. daughter Of the captain OF
tho station The members OF the ere"
who were brought ashore were fatlgueG'
lut remained 60 give all aid possible TO
the lfesavcrs in an attempt to set their
captain safely landed.
,aptaln Stratton had been i'll for sew
eraI DAYS. according TO members OF his
crew. and was being nurscd by MS
dauehtcrs. He was in before he started
On his present voyage to Boston, but
DESPITE efforts to Keep him At home, he
insisted upon taking the cargo to IT'S
destination.
This determination by their father to
go away from home when. 10 Their
minds. his health was not sufficiently ro-
bust. decided the two girls to make the
VOYAGE with him. They had been nurs-
ing him for several days.
At the time the vessel ran ashore t
vas in charge of the first mate. The
shin safely weathered the big hurricane
off cape Hatteras. only to become
stranded when conditions were compara-
lively mild. il was the mate who IN
l.rmcd Captain Tenny that it would be
dangerous TO try TO remove captain
Stratton by the breeches buoy, owing
t. his poor physical condition. The girls
were 50 frightened and worried because
Of their fathers plight that they were
unable 10 tell coherently anything that
had happened.