The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-04-18

pose. The steamer came right on and.
struck the %schooner's main boom
fairly on end. The schooner was on
the wind, with sheets fiat, SO that the
boom hung very nearly fore and aft,
and the force of the blow from the
steamers step vas transmitted to the
mainmast, which was broken off short
at the jaws of the boom, letting the
stick down on the deck with o fearful
thump. The heels of the broken mast
stove a big hole In the deck and there
in the slack rigging and prevented
from going over the stern only by the
%springstay.
The crew of the Carleton made a
rush for the boat at the stern davits,
but Captain Falkingham, seeing that
they intended to desert her, seized an
ak and chopped a hole in the boat, so
that she would not float. That
stopped the panic, and the men turned,
to and helped in patching up the hole*
in the deck with a t%arpaulin, for the
sea was making over her, she being
decks to with coal, and with such q
gap open she would soon have filled.
The steamer, after backing away,
came close up and asked if assistance
was wanted. Captain Falkingham saida-
that he would like a tow to Bostonl:
and the steamer sent him a line. The
line to which the steamer belonged
settled for the damage. and at Boston
the Hannah F. Carleton got a new
mainmast and boom and had her deck
patched up. Had the steamer struck
her In any other place the schooner
would have gone to the bottom like a
shot. The end of the boom was about
ten inches in diameter, and, as an old
coaster captain remarked, they don't
often shoot as close as that.
The queer accidents that have hap
pened to Maine vessels would fill a.
volume, and some of them would not
be believed. An old coaster captain
who had listened to the story of the
Hannah F. Carleton recalled the mys-
FERROUS wreck of the little schooner
Active in Fox island thoroughfares,
some years ago. 1t was in the fall Of
that year and the Active was going
through the narrow passages between
the islands. She carried but two men,
the master, Captain Ray, and his six
teen-year-old son. When last seen un-
der sail the Active was shipshape, the
boy at the wheel and his father below
taking a nap, as it was afterw:rd
found. Next day the Active was found
On the rocks, with her stern stove in,
the master drowned IL his bunk and
the boy dead at the whee! with a bul
let hole in his head.
This discovery caused a great sem
sation, and as there appeared to be
motive for any one to kill the boy and
as 1t was known that the shot must
have been fired by a third person the
whole affair was a mystery and re-
NAMED thus for year, when a man in
a distant state confessed on his death
bed that it was he who fred the shot
that killed the helmsman of the 40
tive.
The man said that he had fired at a
hawk which vas circling low and did
not see the schooner, which suddenly.
came into range, owing to an interven-
ing clump of bushes. Then he al
Mortified to e the boy at the schoona
er's wheel throw up his hands and fall
to the dack, while the vessel preached
to and vas driven ashore by the wind
and tide. The gunner, who was after
gulls and ducks, fed without waiting
to investigate the result Of his unfor-
tunate shot, fearing that il her re-
ported the matter to the authorities
he might, although innocent Of any
criminal intent, be imprisoned.-New
York Sun.