The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-11-29
SEA KlLLSF FOUR ON SAINT ANNA
FOtR SWEPT OIERBOtRD ~
4 PHENOMENAL WtIE.
Four Others Flung Across Decks Ono
of These Died OF 81 Broken Back
One strong sw winner Rescued out
OF the Tumultuous sea Three Lost

While the crack Of the Fnbre Line
fleet the SAINT Anna. in Yesterday from
the Mediterranean, was merely under
stcerage way in heavy head gale in
midocean on Thursday morning a Cliff
of water obliterated for n few seconds
every part Of her except her superstruc-
tnre, hurling four men high over her
funnel into the sea and manning four
others by flinging them against deck
fixtures. One man who was sent sky
ward on the Great of the phenomenal
cumulative wave was saved by ring
buoy that he was lucky enough to catch.
He il a thckset and very muscular young
Italian Giuseppe Quarrell and he was
| the only one of the four who were cata-
pulled from the ship who showed signs
| OF life after they came to the troubled
surface
| Capt FRANCOIS Pavey, who has made
ninety-four Atlantic trips said he never
had seen so vast wave and that he
trembed for the fate 81 the men who
had been ordered forward n few minutes
before 10 make fast ventilator hoods
! loosed by wind and wave. The gale was
| blowing not less than seventy-five miles
and the liner was just longing through
! il As she slid down into the trough the
great sea sprang into being. The skipper
could not estimate ita height. II lowered
high above the bridge and might have
been seventy feet high or more. II was
believed at first that all the men ordered
forward had been carried away, and when
| the SAINT Anna was brought To IA stop,
wallowinG in the trough, every life buoy
or ring available had been flung into the
sea by the -hipmates Of the unlucky men
Onlv few Of the passengers had the
nerve To- come ont on deck. Among these
was Father 4 p Bernard Of 81. Charles :
College Maryland and he after helping
70 care for the injured administered the
! rites OF the church to those who seemed
To he in desperate case.
While the four wounded were being
taken TO the hospital by their shipnateS
and attended by the ships surgeon, Dr
! Carlnine Barone Capt. Pavev was man
,suvring 10 save the muscular Young
Italian Quarrelh He made a lee for
0uarrelh. who was swimming. or rather
keeping himself af1oat with the help of the
life buoy, and lines We're thrown over
Quarrelh caught one under the port bow
OF the SAINT Anna and loOpcd il around
in the combers and was nearly dead from
exhaustion when he was hauled aboard
but his grip on the lifeline was 80 strong
that his shipmates had 70 force open his
hands They thought AZ first that he was
mortally hurt, and the Maryland priest
was called The priest soon found that
Giuseppe needs were merely physical
He came around after he had been doc
tored a bit and had rested and taken
s.imulants.
The men worst hurt Of the four who
were slammed across III" decks Were
jacques foiNet. a veteran ho-'n'@ mate.
who was To have been laid of and PEN
! stoned on his return to Mar~"ili.-. Ills
spine was fractured, and ne died two days
later Ir leaves widow and child in Mar
settles The others injured are seaman
Stiliano. Nincen2o Peretti, left leg broken,
and Hippolvte RoumieuX, arm broken
! and bad hurts to abdomen. The men who
were drowned were all ordinary scamon,
Jean Baptiste Sarti. jules Durand and An
tonic Calsta.
Two days after the invasion Of the great
wave Capt Pavey said he ran into IA
heavier blow which he estimated to he
not less than 100 miles. but II was uu-
accompanied 10y very high seas and did
not last long.