The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-03-08
WRECK SURVIVORS
BROUGHT TO PORT
Captain and Crew of Charlie
magne Tower, Jr, Are
Picked Up at Sea.
RESCUED BARELY IN TIME
Men Near Death From i.x-
posure When Help
Arrives.
RESCUED BARELY IN TIME

Newport News. Va. March 7.--Bring-
ing Captain i'll. c. Simmons and sixteen
members of the crew of tho American
| steamer Charlcmagne Tower. Jr, which
went down or the Now Jersey coast
Yesterday morning. tho whalcbnck
steamer Bay Port reached hero late
this afternoon. The wreck survivors
were landed at Sewell's Point. whore
they boarded Il trolley for Norfolk.
leaving Norfolk tonight for New York
IInlf Dcnd From Exposure.
with TOUR OF the men half dead from
exposure. the shipwreckcd crew was
picked up near Barncgat Light yester-
day afternoon at o'clock during a
binding snowstorni, five miles south
OF where tho Charlemagne Tower
foundered. The rescue was effected by
tho barest chance. signal light at-
tracing the attention of Captain Be-
, ranger, of the Bay Port. just as the
steamer was In the act of passing the
small boat. Snow was falling heavily.
and 1t was fast growing dark. Captain
BeranEer, who was on the bridge bare
ly could see the light as 1t fared up.
Tho Bay Port put about AND discovered
the half frozen and snow-covercd men
huddled In a twenty-foot boat. A stiff
wind prevailed at the time. and the
men were water soaked and numb from
cold. In order to mako room for tho
oNercToWueu cargo some OF the men
were forced to lie in the bottom OF tho
boat and these were In worse condi-
ton than the others. four of them
being restored with difficulty after be-
Ing taken aboard the Bay Port These
men, Quartermaster John Bowling.
Steward Cecil Green, Fireman Webb
| and Messnan Ralph Holmes. were fin
ally restored and landed with the 9TH
ers this afternoon.
| The fun list OF those pickcd up nv
| the Bay Port follows:
| Captain H. g, Simmons, Chief En-
| gineer r. \. WILDER. Second Mate IT,
| Neavs. Third Mate G. p. Whitney. First
Assistant Engineer II. A. hlbin. Sec
/ ond Assistant Engineer w Dobar.
| Quartcrmnsters John Bowling and c.
/ Dochoson. Seamen NJ. Dochoson and w.
| Walla; Louis Edwards. Bert Albin and
| Ed. lsllifon, sailors; Cecil Green, stew !.
ard: Ralph Holmes, messman. and Fire
| men NJ. Hendricltsen and w. Webb
Learns of Their Rescue.
Captain Simmons did not know of
| the rescue OF First Officer Thompson.
! one fireman and two scarncn until his
arrival In port, as when last seen these
men We're struggling In the surf their
| small boat having been swampcd The
/ larger boat put toward the open sea
/ fearing u similar fate. Unable to make
I Roadway In the rough sea- which
!. poured water into their little craft al-
I most as last as ii could be bailcd out
the men decided to drift and depend OF,
| being picked UP. They huddlcd to-
gether so benumbed and water soaked
that they hardly cared toward the
| last whether death came or not.
/ IT was o'clock and showing hard
| when they saw the lights OF the Bay
Port and set off n torch. Had this not
| been seen and response made Cap
| tain Simmons said he and his men
| could not have survived many more
| hours.
| In explaining the laundering of the
| Charlemagne Tower. Jr. Captain Sim
| mons said that her bottom seams, the
| vessel being OF wood. opened and about
| o'clock Friday morning water poured
| in IT such n rate that two hours later
| the ship was filled to her upper beams
lie and his men barely had time to
| get off In tho only two small boats the
steamer carried before che plunged to
the bottom
First Mate Thompson and three men
took 10 the small boat and the re-
mainder Of tho crew crowded into tho
| twentyfoot boat picked up by the
Bay Port The Charlemagne Towsr,
Jr.. was owned by tho Southern Steam
ship Company, and, with the exception
OF one trip to Wilmington. y. c., had