The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-11-14
THREE LOST FROM SCHOONER
wren HAZEL HITS NEW HAVEN
BREAkWATER ~ GALE
Heavy seas wash sailors Overheard aud
Drag Captain out OF the Rigging
Three saved AFTER Night Of Hardship
other Damage Ivy Rough Weather.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. Nov. l3.-The
three masted schooner Witch Hazel.
$50 tons. owned by Stetson cutler &
Co of Boston, went on the breakwater
at the entrance to New Haven Harbor
"A little after o'clock last night and at
midnight two of the crew of six men
were taken from. the rigging by Capt.
John Smith of the schooner Willena
Gertrude, who had heard the cries of the
seamen
Three of the Witch Hazel's crew wcr"
swept overheard within five minutes
after the vessel hit the breakwater and
were drowned Until late this afternoon
it was thought fourth one had been lost.
but he turned up with remarkable tale
of escape from death
The Witch Hazel was bound for Provi-
dence with coal OF New Haven the
wind was up to forty miles an hour and
the captain decided to put in until the
gale went down There was a binding
snowstorm at the time.
Right after the crash tremendous
wave swept over the schooner and car
ricd away three of the crew The two
who were rescued saw it coming IN time
to climb into the rigging They are
brothers, Joseph and Benjamin Miller
Of Nova Scotia They hustled 10 the
crosstrees and clung there Their father,
Andrew Miller. who was steward of the
vessel was carried of, the deck before
their eyes
The captain of the vessel. J. II Britt,
Of Calais. Me. managed to climb into the
rigging with the Miller brothers He was
few feet under them and he told the two
sailors that ne could hold on. Hardly
had he given this assurance when "A wave
rolled. reached into the rigging and took
the captain overheard.
Then the tw sailors began TO cry for h clip
For nearly four hours they kept up their
shouts before they got response. They
were fast becoming benumbed with the
intense cold and were despairing of get
ting help when they heard Capt. Smith
voice coming from Il small boat nearby.
With him We're three of his crew and they
manag ged to get the boat near enough TO
the Witch Hazel SO that the brothers could
jump from the rigging into the boat.
Late this afternoon Ollie johnson. one
Of the crew supposed to be at the bottom
of the sea. came up TO the city and joined
the Miller brothers He said that when
the boat struck the hreakwater he man
aged to climb on to the rocks and rema ined
there for a while. The sea was becoming
7 50 rough that he was afraid Of being swept
into the Sound and he crawed along the
top of the bDpa kwater until he came upon
box in which the lighthouse keeper for
New Haven Harbor keeps his lanterns
He ged To stow himself away in the
box and remained there until the storm
ahated. Then he Crawed out and at
traCted the attention of the lighthouse
keeper, who took him TO the ma inland in a
boat. He was nearly frozen to death.
The other sailor who was lost was Thomas
Mason of ST. Johns, y. B.
Boston. Nov. l3.-The seamen who put
of IN boat from the steamer Howard
in an attempt to say" four men on the
sinking barge Searsport near Fire Island
Yesterday had trying time regaiuing
: their own vessel The Howard arrived
here to-day. Six sailors in command of
Second Officer Hedrick manned the life
boat, but after an hour s struggle against
the gale they were unable to reach the
side OF the barge. The gale increased in
violence and drove the boat to leeward
. pursuit Of the lifebuat hut did not place
it under his lee until five miles away from
. the SearspOrt. \ terrific sea was running
| and the lifeboat was dashed against the
side of the steamer again and again be
fore the tackles could be made fast
Two Of the sailors in the small boat were
slightly injured in getting it aboard the
Howard
BALTIMORE. Nov i3 Last night was
one of the worst in the history of local
shipping. The wind of Cove Point was
thirty-tve miles an hour and more at
times and at other points in the bay it
reached much higher velocity.
The gasolene ferry Smiles. which plies
between Smith : Shore and Fort how
ard foundcred last night and Capt
Smith and his engineer and three soldier
passengers narrowly escaped drowning
They were rescued half frozen by Capt
Alne of the Old Bay Line steamer Florida
and taken IL Norfolk
The two nasted schooner Alexander
Mccullough foundered at Dundalk at
O'Clock this morning after twelve hours
fight with the storm. A. the boat sank
the captain and his crew of three men
took the lifeboat, but the seas were too
big for the little craft and she capsized
Immediately. Tho men all swan to
shore.
NORFOLK. Va. Nov. 49, With II fall of
a degrees in the temperature in sixteen
hours NOrtOlk ana NClnity to-day felt
it's first real touch Of winter the mercury
dropping to 80 degrees with ice forma o.
ton. The shores of thesa peake Bay are
strewn with wreckage of small craft, but
so far no lives are reported lost.
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. IS. Enormous
property loss and il is feared many deaths
resulted from the blizzard that hit Louisi-
ana Sunday morning, and which was ishe-
cred in by violent storm Several small
craft caught in the storm on Lake Pont-
chartrain Sunday have not been reported,
and one vessel carrying seven persons
almost certainly is lost,
Louisiana sugar planters, who had
counted upon the biggest returns in many
years, have suffered loss that may reach
$4,000, 900 or sl2. 600 900.
Joseph A. Gonzales, at fishing camp
in the city limits, died of exposure last
snight, his body being found by friends,
His hand had caught and the body was
found suspended therefrom over the
waters Of Lake Pontchartrain
The launch Marshall is missing. II put
out Saturday afternoon with a fishing
party that was to return Sunday morning
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