Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-07
THREE ESCAPE
BY BUOY FROM
STRANDED SHIP
Rest of Crew Remain Aboard
the Queen Louise on Man
asquan Reef.
5UUNDING INSTRUMENTS
LOST OVERHEARD IN FOG
Steering Gear Broke and Vessel
Was HeIpless-chinese Mu-
tiny Story Denied.

<ISpecial to the Newark start
MANASQtAN, Feb. I'm the inn
penetrable fog that hung over the At
lantic coast early today the English
tramp steamer Queen Louise, bound
from Cardiff, Wales, for New York,
grounded on a reef off the coast here
shortly after a. m. Despite the
hopes of her captain and crew that
she can be fioated with the high tide
late this afternoon, sea captains of
this place and others familiar with
the nature of the sands along this
coast have little hope that the vessel
will be gotten off intact.
The captains knowledge of the ac-
cident was meagre, but he said that
they had drifted for several hours
with a broken steering gear. 1t is be-
1ieved that the terrific sea of yester-
day broke the steering apparatus, and
they drifted at the mercy of the sea
until washed ashore here in the dark
ness of early morning.
1T was $50 o'clock this morning
when the life-eavers of the 'Squan
Beach station saw her distress sig
nails. Captain Andrew Longstreet
and his crew shot out a line to them
and by daylight they were ready to
, take the men ashore. Three boys were
BemL IN 1TSI. sO1G CdTfl6u d CdbtC-
gram for transmission to the ships
office, Thomas Dunlap & Sons, Glas-
gov, Scotland, notifying them of the
grounding of the vessel on the New
Jersey coast.
Captain Longstreet, of the life-sav-.
ing station, went out to the vessel
in the breeches buoy and held con-
ference with Captain McDonQugh, at
which the latter decided to stick to
a If ..-44 l. Ii fInxr ,r-a
forced to leave her. A wrecking crew
will arrive here this afternoon. Sea-
men declare the vessel is sinking into
the shifting sands so rapidly that it
will require a strong northeast or
northwest storm to move the sands
from her sides before she can be float
ed again. The opinion is borne out
by life-savers
Men in No Danger.
The accident occurred less than
quarter of a mile from the scene of
The disaster of last March, where the
barkentine Antioch, loaded with lum-
ber, came ashore and was broken to
pieces, after her crew of seven men
had been rescued in breeches buoy
The crew of the stranded steamer
humbers twenty-one men, and all are
= eager to stay aboard and assist the
wreckers in their efforts to tloat her
this afternoon. Captain Longstreet
reported that while the seas were
hitting her hard the men were In no
Immediate danger and would be safe
aboard until high tide at least.
High seas are pounding against her
side and washing over her deck. The
vessel is commanded by Captain Da-
vid McDonough, and is loaded with
. tinplate consigned to the Standard Oil
! Company Of New York. Her position
is dangerous, as she lies between the
Xiffher and outer bars broadside to the
4 feea. She is headed north and the life
eavers are puzzled as to her course.
When she grounded she was appar-
Entity making north along the coast,
thirty miles south of Sandy Hook and
her proper path. The only explanation
Of her difficulties was secured from
one of the boys who were brought
ashore in the breeches buoy this
morning.
~Tn the heavy mist and fog at high
tide this morning the vessel ran head
on over the outer bar off the beach
and landed high UP near the shore.
Her position is not more than 500
Feet off the rife range. The first
that life saving stations knew of her
peril was at o'clock this morning
when rockets streaked skyward
through the darkness and her siren
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