Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-04
STORMS ALONG COAST
KEEP CUTTERS BUSY
Revenue Service Boats Go to As.
sistance of Vessels in
Distress.
They Save Several Lives and Much
Property Which Were Imperiled
by Gales.

Recent storms on the Gulf of Mexico
and along both Atlantic and Pacific
coasts have kept the revenue cutter
service busy for the last week or two.
Reports which have just been made by
several of the cutters tell of serious
difficulties in which a number of YES
sells along the coast were involved and
of quickly proffered assistance given
by the vessels of the revenue cutter
feet
on the Gulf of Mexico the cutter
,iiami had plenty of work to do in
hunting for vessels in distress, rescu-
ing crews and bringing into port aban-
doned vessels. For several days in the
early part of last week the cutter
cruised in search of the British bark
Malwa, the crew of which she had
taken aboard from the steamship that
had taken the men off the sinking yes
sci, and carried them to Key west
Though a diligent search was made, no
trace of the bark was found and 1t IS
thought that 1t must have sunk. and
Capt Quinan SO reports to the depart
ment.
Crew Without Food.
Friday the Miami brought into Key
West the British schooner Cheslie,
Mexico about 20 miles southeast of
the mouth of the Mississippi river. The
We .sel was full of water but was Kept
sfoat by her cargo of lumber, which
she was taking from Pascaguila to Ha-
vana, and had sails and spars missing.
Her crew of seven men We're suffering
for want of food and water, both OF
which had given out, and were In a
bad way when the cutter reached the
had in
the waterlogged hulk, but the task was
accomplished in safety and the vessel
brought into port. As soon as the MI
ami reached Key West orders from the
department here sent her in search of
other vessels reported in trouble and
for the hulk of an overturned schooner
which was passed in the gulf by the
British steamship Wanita.
Responding to a RADIO message that a
three-masted schooner was in distress on
the North Carolina coast the cutter
Seminole made all speed to the position
Indicated and found the schooner Nellie
W. Craig off Little kfnnakeet lifesaving
station with rudder broken, but other
wise unframed. The master of the
schooner requested that his vessel be
taken to place OF safety. where repairs
could be made and the Seminole carried
her into Hampton roads and left her lying
in safe anchorage.
\ report from the cutter Wfnona, sta
toned at Gulfport, Miss, tells story
OF how the Saliormen from the cutter
turned fire fighters and aided in eXtin-
kuishing fire on gasoline launch that
threatened the safety of docks and ship
ping in the little Mississippi port. The
fire, which was on the gasoline boat
Violet, used in supplying fuel oil to power
boats, was observed from the deck of
the cutter and d detail from her crew
was sent to fight the flames. Aiding the
tirefghters of the town, the men in the
cutters boat carried a stream of water
to the burning vessel, but this had no
effect on the flames. hole was finally
cut in the Niolet's hull and she sank in
fifteen feet of water. This extinguished
the blaze.
In the past week the cutter Pamlico,
stationed on the inland waters of North
Carolina, aoated a launch that had
stranded in the North river. tributary of
Panllico sound, and lowed it to a safe
harbor. The launch belonged to ].
c. Mason of Lukens, n. c., and had
been blown ashore with Passengers
aboard all of whom reached land a
little wet. but uninjured. The cutter
after floating the launch resumed cruising
ion Pamlico sound