The Monmouth inquirer., 1913-04-17
WRECK Of the MEXICO
And OTHER VESSELS
YEARS AGO.
lContinued from Iast weekl

Continued from last week.
A full rigged vessel was seen by a
pilot boat on the 18th of December,
1874, about 80 miles east Of Barne-
eat of abont 800 tons burden. The
pilot boat ran down to her and hav-
ing passed her bow and finding she
h sd been abandoned. tackled to dis
cover her name on the stern, when
she careene1 over, gave plunge and
disappear-d. Supposed to be the
Cyprus, which was abandoned by her
crew on the Sth.
jan. 18th, 1S45. On Tuesday after
noon of last week fore and aft
schooner from Baltimore, bound east,
was wrecked on the north side of
Shark River inlet She had cargo
OF 3. 700 bushels of corn and some bar
rels of -four and lard. She bilged aud
the corn was lost. 40 barrels of flour
and Is barrels of lard were saved.
Crew saved.
April II, 1948 1--WE understand
that the packet John Marshal, which
sails from Compton Greek, near Mid
dlr town. to New York, was consumed
BIZ fire last week while lying at the
wharf in Compton Creek. She was
laden with produce and just ready to
sail.
In the issue of April IA, 1S45, 10 the
Court news, we find that Samuel F.
Allen who has been wreck master for
the SQuan dstricr, has resigned, aS
was appointed.
Edward Jennings, of Manahawkin,
was appointed Commissioner of
Wrecks for the vicinity where he re-
sided May 1, 1845.
From issues of 1845.
The ship Mersey from Cork, Ire
land, with 273 passengers came ashore
below Sandy Hook Wednesday morn
ing of last week at o'clock and at
the time had h pilot She had been
stripped and had two feet of wa, er in
her hold. She was in ballast aud iu-
tended going to Quebec after landing
her passengers. The passengers all
went 10 New York by steamboats,.
The Brig Thor e. Capt. Hathaw way,
with cargo of coal from Bristol, Pa,
bound to Dickton, Mass, came ashore
in consequence of having sprung
ale k. opposite I'll Long Branch ho-
tells, on the morning of June 80. The
vessel will be lost, the cargo ia tly
saved.
The INQUIRER OF Feb. 10, 1s46, says
the scnooL er Alabama" from PDila-
delphia, struck the sand at Squan ,
Beach. The crew are saved.
The schooner Register off and
from New Bern, struck. She had
cargo of 9OO barr Is of turpentine.
AL we're saved but one passenger,
who is supposed to have been crushed
to death.
Tue Swedish bark Lofty" which
sailed for Antwerp on Friday also got
ashore and the Capt. D. Haen and
mate were lost. She has gone to
pieces. She had cargo of grain.
The crew were saved.
The bark New jersey" Lewis, !
from Savannah, is also ashore and
has gone to pieces, b lieved all saved.
The New York Plot boat, Mary
Ellen, was caught by the gale so or 60
miles from shore, and having tried
every means to keep on offing and
her ashore to the test advantage.
They landed her SO size can be easily
launched and saved all hands
The ship John Minturn,n Captain
Starke, which sailed from New o
leaus on the 9th ultimo for New
York, having on board valuable
cargo, FIVE cabin passengers, besides
tie Captains wife, son and daughter,
with 20 seaman from the ship "Cher-
okeP,n who were coming home after
her loss, struck the beach Sunday
morning, Feb. Is, at about O'Clock.
She sheered broadside of the beach
and heeled off shore. The -CaptaiD
and bis wife, child en-. the five cabin
pass engers and others of the two
crews perished, and among them, the
second officer, Mr. Sturgis. Fifty
three souls were on board, of which
thirteen escaped 10 the boat but some
of them have broken imbs. The
Captains wife washt d ashore with an
infant in her embrace, that even the
throes of des tn did not make her re-
lease her hol1. The Capt in and
his little son were also washed ashore
and the body of his beautiful young
daughter was washed ASHORE at Cedar
Creek, Is miles south of where the
ship went ashore. The bodies were
taken to the nearest house at Man
asQuan and were dressed in the habl
iIneuts of death, pr senting scene
truly mournful and affecting. A
whole family being VIII ed out,
whose hearts within few short
hours throbbed high with hope, have
forever ceased to beat. The accouI
says the country at large and the mer
camille interest in particular, have
sustail ej an irreparable loss in tue
death of the much laueutei Captain /,
Starke, OF the John Minturn. III pri-
yate life he was courteots and gen i
tlelnaniy and on the quarter deck a I
kind, able and experienced seaman. |
TT e schooner Pioneer ir 1m Brandy I
wine, bound to New Haven with a
cargo of coru and flour, struck st 7
about the same time aud all ON board |
perished. The vessel is total loss. !