Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-08
Picked Up Half Dead.

Bringing Capt. III. C. Simmons and six
teen members of the crew of the Ameri-
can steamer CharIemagne Tower. jr.,
which went down off the New Jersey
coast yesterday morning, the whale
back steamer Bay Port reached here
late this afternoon.
The wreck survivors We're landed at
SewelIs point. There they boarded
trolley for Norfolk, leaving Norfolk to-
night for New York.
With four of the men half dead from
exposure, the shipwrecked crew was
picked UP near Barnegat light yester-
day afternoon at o'clock during
binding snowstorm. five miles south of
where the Charlemagne Tower found
cred Their rescue was made possible
by barest chance, a signal light. at
tracing the attention of Capt. Beranger
of the Bay Port just as the steamer
was in the act of passing the small
boat.
Snow was falling heavily and it was
fast growing dark. Capt. Beranger,
who was on the bridge saw the light
family as it fiared up. The Bay Port
put about and discovered the half-frozen
and snow-covered men huddled in
twenty-foot boat.
A stiff wind prevailed at the time.
The men We're water-soaked and numb
from cold. In order to make room for
the overcrowded cargo, some of the
men were forced to lie in the bottom
of the boat.
Revived With Difficulty.
These men were in worse condition
than the others. Four of them were
restored with difficulty after being taken
aboard the Bay Port These men,
| Cecil Green and Fireman Webb and
Messman Ralph Holmes were finally
| revived and landed with the others this
| afternoon.
The full list of those picked up by the
| Bay Port follows:
H. A. WILDER. Second Mate H. Neaves
Third Mate c. P. Whitney, First As
sistant Engineer II. Albin. Second AS
sistant Engineer W. Dobare, Quarter
SON. Samuel NJ. Docohon and w.
Walla, Louis Edwards, Bert Albin and
Ed clifton, oilers; Cecil Green, steward;
| Ralph Holmes, nessman, and Firemen NJ.
Hendricksen and w. \, ebb.
Four Comrades Missing.
| Capt. Simmons did not know Of the
rescue Of First Officer Thompson, one
fireman and two seamen until his ar
4 rival IN port. WHen last seen these men
were struggling in the surf, their small
boat having been swamped The larger
boat put toward the open sea fearing a
| similar fate.
| Unable to make Roadway in the rough
sea which poured water into their little
| craft almost as fast as it could be bailed
| out the men decided to drift and depend
on being picked up. They huddled to-
gether. so benumbed and water-soaked
that they hardly cared toward the last
| whether death came or not.
| 1t was 3 o'clocn and showing hard
when they saw the lights of the Bay
Port and set off a torch. Had this
not been seen and a response made Capt.
/, Simmons said. he and his men could not
have survived many more hours.
Seams Spring Leak.
In explaining the laundering of the
ICharlemagne Tower. jr.. Capt Simmons
said that the bottom seams of her wood
en- hull opened and about am. Friday
water poured in at such a rate that two
hours later, the ship was filled to her
upper beams. He and his men barely
had time to get off in the only two small
boats the steamer carried before she
plunged to the bottom.
FIRST Mate Thompson and three men
took to the small boat. The remainder
Of the, crew crowded into the twentyfoot
boat picked up by. the Bay Port
The Charlemagne Tower. jr.. was own
ed by the Southern Steamship Company.
With the exception of one trip to Will
mington, N. c., she had been out of
commission for six years.
Abandoned Steamer Founders.
SEASIDE PARK, N. J.. March THE
steamer Charlemagne Tower, jr., sank
yesterday in fifty feet of water three
quarters of a mile from shore. between
| Cedar creek and Forked River life saving