Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-16
TWELVE DROWN AS
TWO VESSELS SINK
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housing and decks, and rockets were
being sent up. To attempt to steer
| the vessel was madness, SO the helm
was abandoned and the schooner
| leaped from the waters or plunged
| down or shot this way or that as
wind and waves ragged. Always, how
| ever. the relentless northeast gale
| was driving her down the coast, back
over the course she had slowly and
painfully traversed earlier in the
day.
When Captain Hardy realized the
/ danger that the shifting cargo of
lumber brought to his crew he or
dered all hands to seek safety in the
rigging. He aided his wife to creep
up the braces and dashed her secure
ly in place Maikuson he directed to
remain on the deck to keep the sig
nal lights ablaze and send up the
rockets.
The sails of the vessel had been
torn to shreds and were Tapping
about in the high wind, endangering
those aboard as they chung to their
perilous perches. Broken ropes also
were whirling about, threatening TO
lasso the members of the crew and
As the schooner shot down the
coast persons living along the shore
were attracted by her signals of dis
tress The beach was alive with peo-
pie endeavoring TO penetrate the veil
of the darkness and rain and catch
glimpse of the vessel. Her rockets
and lights, however. furnished them
with their only means of determining
her position. Soon bonfires were
built near the waters edge. and these,
with automobile searchlights that
were turned in the direction of the
sea. enabled the spectators to dis
Germ the dim outlines of the doomed
vessel. A procession of automobiles
was advancing along the shore roads
with the schooner.
Slowly the Buckley was driven
toward Long Branch. Life-savers
from the Monmouth Beach life-saving
station, under Captain William
Greene, and from the Takanasse sta
ton, under Captain William Van
Brunt, had been summoned and were
hurrying their apparatus in the di-
rection of the schooner's signal lights.
The wind and currents kept the
schooner well off shore until she APP
preached Long Branch. Then, by the
light of the life savers Searchlights
and the bonfires along the beach,
spectators saw the vessel turn and
shoot with great speed in the direc-
ton of the sandbar off North Broad
way and Ocean avenue, Long Branch.
Schooner Broken in Two.
The vessel struck about three hum
bred feet from the shore. Her bow
was stove in and she seemed to be
broken in two. Her cargo of lumber
kept her af1oat, however, although
she was speedily losing her freight
as the heavy surf broke over her.
Captain Hardy, his wife and the
members of the crew could be seen
clambering about ons the rigging. 1t
was not known on shore that wom-
an was aboard the schooner, until the
| lone survivor was revived in the Mon
mouth Hospital and told briefly OF
| the wreck
AS the vessel shot inshore, the life
, savers tried to reach her with the
| breeches buoy. Time after time they
| fired the guns, only to miss the ship.
Despairing of obtaining help from this
source those on board the vessel fin
| ally started down the rigging to
+, launch a life-boat. AS they reached
| the decks and started to unlimber the
| obat q terrific wave broke over the
vessel Practically the whole rigging
was carried away, and all but one
| seaman, AldlhuSOAls NCAt SeNii ~ "
board. The lifeboat was caught in the
swirl of the waters and carried to the
| shore to be smashed to bits.
Then a lucky shot from the breecheS
buoy line reached the vessel and the
rope was entwined around Maikuson' $
body. He was dragged ashore and
taken to the hospital There it was
| found both his shoulders and his right
leg were broken. His body was
] bI1t the surgeons
/ could find no evidence of internal in
! juries.
! Especial to the Evening start
| SOUTH AMBOY, April 16.-The steel
| tugboat Aries, of New London, Conn.,
was dragged under water yesterday
afternoon when the Pequod, a barge
she was towing, was sheered around
by the high wind and plunged under
| the waves. Two of the Aries's crew
were drowned. The accident hap
pened off the great beds light.
George Marsdale, a fireman., o.
Stafford Springs. Conn, and Wallace
Hodges, a decknand, of New Lon
| don, Conn. went down with the tut
| and were drowned. AS the boat SAM
the boiler exploded, and William
Griswold, OF New London, chief en-
gineer, was scalded about the bach
| and legs He was taken to the Cit,
/ f1OSD1L9l at 1GTlh AIllDOy.
| There were nine persons in the tug
The survivors were rescued by the
oyster dredge Merrill, which hap
| pened 70 be close at hand
Distress signals brought the Mer'
rill and Lehigh Valley. tug Mahon,
| to the rescue. Rolling seas made 4
| almost impossible to get near. A life.
boat was smashed when lowered
Captain William Post then sent tn,
Merrill alongside of the doomed tug
The men were taken off and sent Il
| Peth Amboy, where Port officer DR.
Charles w. Naulty, Jr., attendet
them. They were then sent TO NeV
York.
The Aries belonged to the Thame
Towing Company, of New London
The rescued men are George w. Hal
lyburton, captain; Thomas Brown
mate: William Griswold, chief en-
4 gineer; John Ballet, assistant chic
engineer; Fred HALLIBURTON, steward
Frank Clark, fireman, all of New
London, Conn, and Earl STANFORD
deckhand, of Bridgeport, Conn. TIL
bodies of the drowned men were no
recovered.
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