The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-02
MANNING, S. c.. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER g. 1914
SHIP HITS ROCKS

SHlP HIS kUCkS
SPECTATORS ON SHORE UNABLE
TO SAVE PASSENGERS.
Ship Slowly Pounded to Pieces as
| Life Savers Are Drowned in At
tempting Rescue.
The steam schooner Haulei, ashore
on Duxbury reef, near San Francisco
broke in two just before dawn Tues
day with something over 81 souls
aboard. Forty-three survivors were
reported rescued Tuesday night
Eighteen dead have been washed
ashore. How many are missing never
will be known, for the company's
best available passenger list gives
twenty-eight passengers and twenty
six crew, a total Of ifty-four souls,
whereas, the known dead and saved
number sixty-one.
| The schooner, which had been
pounded by the surf since Monday
noon, when she ran ashore in fog,
| went all to pieces. Her bow, which
hung over the reef and had been
twisted to q right angle, slid into
the water and drifted to within 100
yards Of the beach. The quintet
| who first came ashore swan from this
wseckage.
A few more hours would have saw
ed every soul aboard. An hour
!Rould have saved many. After all
hope had been given up ashore and
on board the wreck, the sixth line
fred by the Golden Gate park life
saving crew, under Captain Norman
Nelson, went over the vessel. a
breeches buoy was rigged and then
the line parted amid cries which rose
above the thunder Of the surf.
Efforts to take of the Hanaleis
passengers and crew from shore be-
gan late Monday after a dozen YES
sells had tried to reach her and were
prevented by fog and surf. The Fort
Point life saving station from the
beach fired lines, which fell short,
until In desperation they double
charged their. mortar and it burst.
An effort to launch a boat from the
Hanalei failed, aud a passenger was
drowned.
A sailor tried IT, swim shore with
line and the men on the beach
could see his arm swing above the
waves, but at the line of breakers he
sank and his body went out to sea.
A passenger took line and got
ashore but the line became unfas-
tened as he swan. One other man, 1t
was reported, also reached shore.
A life saving crew which went out
toward the wreck was upset. The
captain reached shore and the Se-
naming 1--WE men got aboard the
Hanalei. Two later were washed Oh
and drowned and there seemed no
hope for any rescue. At two o'clock
In the morning the Golden Gate life
saving crew with a larger mortar ap-
pearea. It began to Shoot lines to-
ward the wreck as the tide rose.
After the third shot the water was
waist deep on the schooner and the
wireless operator, who was sending
with an ifnprevised outfit held in
one hand, reported that the passen-
gers were desperate.
1--WE will get. ashore as best we
can,' he reported: 1--WE can not stay
here"
But they dared not trust the
waves.
"Try once more. Hurry, Hurry"
called the operation little later.
The steamer went to pieces after a
night spent In heroic but flltile efforts
by persons on shore to fit up line
to the vessel by which the passen-
gers and crew could be removed from
danger. Those on board kept their
courage to the last and 1t was not
until the hull parted across the rock
where she had, balanced since Mon
day morning that they leaped into
the water and fought toward the sig
nal fires which burned on the beach
A large portion of the hull with a
spar projecting from it, wallowed to-
ward shore on the combers, carrying
many. persons who clung desperately.
A searchlight had been rigged up
on the top of a bluff and with its rays
swimmers we're aided in avoiding the
heavy timbers adrift ahd in heading
toward shore:
When the hulk was within 800
feet of shore Il struck a submerged
rock and keeled over. All those VINO
had been hanging to the spar or the
bits of rigging were washed off. A
few still clung to the hulk, however
as it was wrenched free from the
rock and continued to drift shore
ward. Finally q wave threw 1t so
high upon the sand that life-savers
were able to assist the few half
drowned men.
| The vessel was small coaster OF
$50 tons, plying on local run, and
all the dead are Californians. Among
them was the infant son OF Mrs. val
entine Frahz, fe San francisco, who
was saved herself. She held her baby
bv its dresses in her clenched teeth,
ciutching a timber with her hands
Until exhaustion loosened her jaws.
| Sidney Ashton, chief steward, pick
ed up floating baby, lashed it to mis-
hack and swan with it five hours be
fore q sea wrenched loose. Most OF
the dead brought in by the McCul-
loch had swallowed cruGc petroleum,
smeared on the waves from the ships
fuel tanks when she broke up and
although many showed signs of life
when first picked up it was lmpos-
sible to resuscitate them.
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