The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-22
STILL SEARCH
 FOR BODIES OF
 THREE SAILORS
Mayor Orders Paddock To Render Every
 Assistance
Barking Of Dog Gives Lighthouse Keeper First Warning Of
 Tragedy

This morning Mayor Wilson received From Ensign Landsdowne, command ang the U. S. s. Mccall, a description Of the three sailors who were drowned Saturday night when a launch in which they were returning to the ship was run down by the freight steamer 4he mayor that the Mccall will leave Bridgeport for Gardiner's Bay, L. l., Ut s o'clock tomorrow morning.
 He thanks the mayor for the efforts made to recover the bodies and asks That if the bodies are recovered or the launch located after the Mccall leaves port that word be sent to the wireless office at the torpedo station at New s5Io6 MeN 'pIe1 6ABN eq4 o4 10 lIod
 The description of the drowned sail sors furnished by George c. Rhoades, surgeon of the Mccall, is as follows:
 Alfred Edward Sheehan, seaman; dressed in one pair of white pants, bne pair blue pants, blue shirt and suit pf oilskins; eyes. gray; hair, dark brown: height 66 1-4 inches (without ehoes); weight, 125 pounds. Slight oc- illusion right nostril. Birthmark right side of abdomen.
 Preston Chute, gunner's mate, third elass: dressed in blue trousers and blue bumper; eyes, blue; hair, dark brown; height, 6e 1-4 inches (without shoes); w elSnEy l@U POunQS. IQAl 1OW 0I 4AAO- Bar tooth right side missing; mole. left cheek; scar over left knee cap; mole, left breast; scars, back right wrist and back right elbow.
 Joseph Patrick Russell ordinary eeaman: dressed in white trousers, fxhite jumper and blue shirt; eyes, blue; hair, brown; height, 61 3-4 inch ks (without shoes); weight. 115 pounds; second upper right bicusped tooth missing. Sears. two right forehead. butter angle left eye, back of right hand, slight overlapping second right Doe.
 The mayor has ordered Harbormas- her Garry Paddock to give every as- distance to the naval officers in the ef- Fort to locate the bodies.
 L. P. Thompson, a seaman, of Rhode Island. the only one left to tell hhe awful tale, swan a distance be- aieved to be a quarter of a mile, guid ed by the breakwater light and weak and exhausted clung to the jagged and slippery rocks until his cries for aid had caused the lightkeeper's dog to hvaken Capt Willis A. Green who eame to his rescue.
 Seaman Sheehan is believed to have Followed Thompson but to have be- eome exhausted as he chung to the rocks and sunk while aid was within a. few feet.
 t According to the story told by
 
 commission to take sailors and parties to and from shore. It had been nalr ang regular trips during Saturday. It's Hast trip was made shortly before o'clock from the city's landing at Etratford avenue. On board were Russell and Sheehan who had been netai1ed to bring those on shore leave fo the ship. Thompson had remained outside the canvas covering when the boat left They had passed beyond Ahe breakwater and were nearing tn e ship when suddenly out of the dark mess Thompson had seen the great hulk loom up. He cries to his conn panions to jump and at that moment hhere was a crash which sent the craft fo the bottom. Thompson remem ber- shng swimming until he reached the rocks. There he cried for aid. He believes Sheehan was near him at the time.
 Capt. willis A. Green, the light house keeper, said that he went to sleep shortly after o'clock. He does pot know how long he slept but was awakened by his dog barking loudly 94e tried to quiet the dog but to no avail. Peering through the glass windows, he saw that it was raining hard and the sea was stormy The continued barks of the dog brought him to the balcony. He heard and Saw nothing. He halloed and thought he heard a faint cry in the distance. Gaining the rocks he went down the breakwater and soon the cries for aid were more easily distinguishab1e. He found Thompson clinging to the rocks and pulled him from the water al- hmost exhausted A faint cry and 9 kureIe was heard by both and Thomp- Eon exclaimed. There goes poor Eheehan-' After reviving Thompson, the two manned the lighthouse row boat and put out in aid of the others, khouting from time to time. They eame across a boat manned by the kteaner Seaboard's crew. The cox Twain upon learning Thompson had been in the launch asked if his lights had been burning as those on the bridge had not seen any, Thompson kaid they had been burning when the party left the dock.
 { After a vain search Capt Green and Thompson put back to the lighthouse. khortIy after ten Capt. Zachary Lands Rovn. commander of the Mccall, wondering why his cutter had not TO- turned ordered a whole-boat manned hnd put off in search of the cutter As they passed through the break kater they hailed the light and asked
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