Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-05
rs LIVES LOST AT SEA
THE ESTIMATED TOLL.
OF BLIZZARD ON COAST
With Many Vessels in AT.
lantic Still Unaccounted
For, 1t Is Feared the List
of Deaths May Go Still
Higher.

Seventy-nve lives sacrificed to Tho M.
zard that ragged Saturday is the ostlma..
mado today from incomplete ror.s.s
flashed from various points along The d,
lantic coast
Revenue cutters, tramp and line st.o.
ships that weathered the storm are aiso
searching along the Atlantic coast SON..
are impeled by the hope that the pr,ns
| Mauritz Of the Royal Dutch West maj.
Mail Company, still Is ahoat Others = :.
searching for vessel believed to be ths
Advance, of the Panama Line
This steamship, with a passenger liz, !,
so and crew of 65 men. was bound fros.
Colon for New York She was last heard
from by the coast wireless stations ,ybss
the storm was at its worst
Another big vessel that is missing is 81.
old Dominion Passenger liner Jeffervos
overdue at Norfolk.
The available list of foundered or mis..
ing ships includes:
Prinz Mauritz, four passenpers N 4
crew. -
Tug Edward Luckenbach, 16 rner,ha..
of crew of 1s lost.
-Four coal barges, crew OF 10 lost.
sCHooNERs ON SHOALS.
Three schooners swept coastward bv a..
storm are pounding to pieces off Cana
fIatteras and the Diamond Shoals. ~.
cordinG to dispatches this morning
Heroic rescues marked the storm. which
mariners stamp as one of the worst ever
experienced along the Atlantic coast Fer
hours the velocity OF the wind never went
below 60 miles an hour and for a time a
was 20 miles. The wind was accompanled
by binding snowstorm.
The most daring rescue at sea was that
of the captain and six sailors from the
American schooner Alice Murphy by the
crew of the steamship Lenape, Of the
Clyde Line. The Lenape landed the res
cued party yesterday at Charleston. S. q,
The Alice Murphy was battered into A
helpless condition by the stiff gale pre-.
cedng the blizzard Her men finally
lashed themselves to the mast They re.
mained there So hours, enduring untold
hardships, before the Lenape found them
THE DARING RESCUE.
The sea still was raging so flercely that
the launching of small boats seemed i'm.
possible. A volunteer rescue crew was
called for on the Lenape and Second OH.
Ger Wood led the men who responded over
the rail. They dumped many barrels OF
oil into the sea, making the Launching
possible.
For two hours the little boat was swept
about like cork, seeking n chance to
get at the waterlogged and sinking
schooner. One by one the half dozen
starving sailors were cut from their lash.
ings and taken aboard the lifeboat. When
the Lenape left the schooner was awash
and about to sink.
The four barges lost off the Delawars
Capes were owned by the Consolidation
Coal Company. They were bound from
Baltimore to Boston with coal. They
were in tow of the tug Cumberland and
the hawser broke off Cape Henlopen,
The Cumberland tried to get another
line aboard, but had to veer off and stand
out TO sea to prevent going ashore.
LIFEsAvERs ARE HELPLESS.
Lifesavers, powerless to aid, had to
stand by and see the barges battered to
kindlng wood on the shoals and the
men drowned Three of the bodies wera
washed ashore last night. They wers
identified as those of Captain John John
son, of Baltimore, commander of Barge
No. .; Carl Larsen, of Gothenburg,
Sweden, and Dempsey Jarvis, from some
where in North Carolina The bodies now
are in an undertakers establishment at
Lewes, Del.
Captain William Z. Umstead, of Nor.
folk, was master of the tug Lucken-
bach, which had three coal barges In
tow. OFF False Cape Va, the towlns
broke. In searching for the barges, the
Luckenbach, one of the most powerful
seagoing tugs along the coast. was over
come by the storm. She sank so swiftly
there was no time to launch small boat
The tug carried a crew of IS men. Six
teen of them We're drowned. The two
others are Harry Olsen first officer and
Cicero Goodwin, second officer. Olsen
was unconscious when taken from the
mast of the sunken tug. Goodwin was
found among five bodies washed ashore.
He was revived.