The evening world., 1911-01-10
Men on Stranded BargeS Swept
Into Sea Off MaSsachu-
sets Coast.
CAN'T LAUNCH BOATS
Surf Grew Battles Vainly to
Rescue Victims on Reading
Railroad Graft.

iHH HIGHLAND LIGHT. Mass, jan. ~
In the wreck OF three Reading Rail-
road barges on the dreaded Pea,ci
iiiu Bar. n shoal that juts out TO sea
from the nub OF Cape Cod. seventeen
men lost their ives early to-day. Tho
hargcs. coal laden. we're the Corbin.
Pine Forest rnt rflverton. In tow %.
tho tux iyfcns. Thcy wCic bound from
rhiladclpua to various New England
ports, and while rounding Cape Cod
ran into the teeth OF a terrific gale.
The bowling 'uorthor' was iashlng
The coast with enormous seas. The big
bsrges were whipped about like chips
I'M their towlincs snapped. Then they
were borne headlong on the Peaked I'm
knackls OF the cape. probably tho
worst lee shore on the New England
coast. The tug was helpless to go IN
TO tho rescue. owing to the reefs.
The Treyerton was the biggest barge
of tho three AMI carried a crew OF seven
men, all OF WHOM were lost. T. l.
Brown of L~lncolnvillc, Me-. was skipper
OF tho barge, which was bound Tor
Portland. The bodies of two OF the
Treverton's crew we're washed ashore
AT s O'Clock. BY that lime the bdreg
was breaking up and not a soul could
Ne seen on her sea-piled decks.
There was still moonlight on the
waters when the hapless fleet of oarges
rounded the Cape and came In view OF
the ~rfe.saving stations at High Head
Peaked Hill n Race Point The
crews Of these stations strove valiantiy
TO launch their boats. but each ll'''
I the gale tossed them back. All emo Us
+, 10 shoot a line to the ~foundered barges
I we're vain.
Chung to the Rigging.
| The barge Pine Forest. the smallest
Of the tow, carried a crew OF hve men.
NJ. w. Hall OF proyincetown COM
\ manding. She was bound Tor Marble
head. After "A few minute IN the rig
.iny. where they were drenched with
~ seas. the Pine Forests crew
nunched a dory. The l~ife-savers saw
no tiny boat shoot high up on the
rest Of a foaming wave. then vanish
amid a bursting shower OF spindrift
The barge Corbln. bound for Ports
mouth, ~. H.. also carried n crew oil
five. c. NJ. Smith o. Philadelphia In
onmand The n.o-sayors say thcy
never saw n soul OIL the decks OF
the Corpln before or after she struck
the bar. She seemed to be In the wors'
race OF the storm-tossed waters and hei
rev were probably washed into Tho sea
efore she strdsk.
When dawn cane up on the sim tu'
mu,tuous waters only the battered hunk
2 Two barges could be seen. The tnir'
,arge. deep on tho reef. was made GU
ater. The barge TIeverton hM
tthstood the pounding OF the breaherl
setter than her smaller companions, an'
he uie-savers thousht they could max
iut two men ~ellnplag to the rigging
they were very dln, outlines thodBh
nd soon disappeared.
II was high water wnen .he life saver
Jade their nrst effort TO launch II boat
he boat no sooner caught the waite
han she was nuns backward on he
tern and her crew nurled out on III
and. After sewers. more strenuous Elk
Iprlences OF the kline the He saver
decided they must wal, for low watei
The tug Lykens lowered about the seen
4 the disaster until = o'clock. when sh
urned about and steamed for Provinc,
own.
The gale on the Cape last night wa
the worst OF the winter. bu; 1t was N
intii nearly midnight that the win
hauled into the northwest and then I'M
the north.
Fleet elotted Out.
The skipper OF the Lykens figured on
gesterly gale when he left Nineyal
Haven with his tow yesterday. /
,assed over Nantucket Shoals durii
he afternoon. When he got to the cal
0 clung close In TO get as much Ice
ossible. wherefore he was in a bad y
ltion when the gale suddenly 9hipp
ound and came pllins upon hin out
"a north.
While the moon remained up the ].
ems and her tow could ue made q
rom the life-saving stations as FAR
ne cape as Nausett Cahoon's HOLE
rnd Pane, River Wien the moon
he harassel httle neet vas bio'ieo FOL