The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-10
UP At SEA
BY WHALE STEAMER
Survivors of C%harIemagne
Tower, Jr., Sank Off Jersey
Coast Arrives Norfolk

Bringing Capt. RI. c. Simmons and Is
OF the crew Of the American
steamer Charlemagne Tower. Jr.,
winch went down of he New Jersey
coast yesterday morning, the whale
back teamer Rapport reached here
late this afternoon. The wreck sur
vlVorS were landed at Sewelrs Point,
where they boarded n trolley for Nor
folk. leaving Norfolk tonight for New
York.
With tour OF the men half dead
from exposure, the shipwrecked crew
picked up near Barnegat Light yeSter-
day afternoon at } o'clock during a
binding snowstorm, five miles south
OF where the Charlemagne Tower,
Jr., foundered. Their rescue was ef-
fected by the barest chance, a signal
light attracting the attention of Cap
ain Beranger, Of the Bayport, just
as the Steame was in the act OF pass
ing the small boat. Snow was fall
ing heavily and it was fast growing
dark. Captain Beranger. who was on
the bridge, barely could see the light
as it fiared up. The Bayport put
about and discovered the half-frozen
and snow-coVercd men huddled in a
20-foot boat. A stiff wind prevailed
at the time and the men were water
soaked and numb from old. In or
der to make room for the over
crowded cargo, some of the men
We're forced to lie in the bottom u
the boa and they We're in WorSe con
dition than the others. four Of them
being restored with difficulty after be-
ing taken aboard the Bayport.
Life Restored.
Quartern1aster Downing Cecil Green.
the steward, and Freimon Webb and
Messman Ralph Holmes Were finally
restored and landed with the others
this afternoon.
The full list of those picked up 10y
the Bayport follows:
Capt. H. G. Simmons, Chief En8I-
neer II. A. Wilbur. Secon0 mate II
Neaves, Third Mate c. 2. Whitney
First Assistant Engineer A. Albin
Second Assistant Engineer ". Do
+ bare, Qu-artermasters Johns Dowlin-
! and c. Dohoson, SeaInen NJ. Dochsol
and W. Walla, Louis Edwards. Ber
z Albin and Ell. Fllifon oilers Ceci
Green, steward, Ralph Holmes, mess
man and fireman, NJ. Hendricksen anT
w. Webb.
! Captain Simmons did not know o
e the rescue of First Officer Thompson
. n fireman and two seamen until hi
r arrival in port, as when last seen theS'
men We're struggling In the surf, the!
small BOAT having been SWamped.
Takes to Open Sea.
The larger boat put toward tn
I open sea, fearing a similar tate. Tn
able to make Roadway in the rougl
sea, which poured water into thei
, little craft almost as fast as it coul
: be bailed out. the men decided {
drift and depend on being picked VI
1 They huddled together so benumble
and water-soaked hat they hardl
4 cared, toward the last, whether deaf
;, came or not. 1t was five o'clock an
. showing hard when they saw III
d lights Of the Bayport and set off
torch. Had this not beer seen an
a made, Captain Siinmon
e aid he and his men could not HAY
survived many more hours.
S In explaining the laundering of til
Charlemagne Tower. Jr., Captain Sin
I mons said that her bottom Seam'
the vessel being of wood opened an
n about I an. Friday, water poure
in at such a rate that two houI
later the ship was filled to her uppe
upper beams. He and his men barrel
q had time to get off the only Nv
small boats the teaIner carried befor
e she plunged to the bottom.
e First Mate Thompson and tire
men took to the small boa and tn
e remainder of the crew crowded int
o a 20-foot boat picked up by the Bay
d port. The C~haTleTnagne Tower, j
IS was owned by the Southern Steam
| ship Company and with the eXceptio
= of one trip to Wilmington, y. G.. IA
ST been out OF commission for six Near
it is said.