The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-05
CREW OF SCHOONER ALICE MURPHY LAND AT CHARLESTON, 5. [.
Many Accidents on High Sea Mark Easter Sunday. Tug Is Wrecked Off
 False Cape

Charleston, S. C., April 4-Captain Mur- phy and the six members of the crew of
 the American schooner Alice Murphy, We're landed here today by the Clyde line
 steamer Lenape, by which they were res 1 cued from their water logged vessel ves-
 terday 15 miles south of the Diamond
 shoal lightship. on the North Carolina coast When the Lenape sighted the wreck. the men were lashed to the mig
 zen mast and had been without food for s6 hours.
 The rescue was effected during a violent storm by Second Officer Wood and A volunteer crew. oil had to be used free ly in order for the rescue boa, 70 ap proach the wreck
 The Murphy was lumber laden from
 Savannah, Ga for Providence, R. I. The
 nattering of heavy seas opened her seams and she became waterlogged last Eriday.
 he schooner was l5liiig ln- Than { stpn-
 Me- in 1871. and her home port was Rock
 land, Me She was of 425 gross tons 1B
 feet long and 8 feet broad. Charleston, s. C.. April 1.-The coal laden barge San Antonio, which sprung
 leaF while being lowed to Galveston hv the steamer Texas. was beached here to-
 day. She was lowed in by tugs which l answered wireless calls from the Texas yesterday The barge's crew Is safe. Wilmington, N. C.. April 1.-The Morgan
 line steamer Comus New Orleans for New
 York. sent wireless message to thescoast guard cutter Seminole here today that
 she had rescued the crew of the barge Northwestern. which broke away from the lug Wellington Friday night and foun- dered on the North Carolina coast, north
 cast of Cape Lookout. The tug was
 en route from Jacksonville for New
 York
 The Seminole will put to sea tomorrow
 to destroy the wreck as it Is a menace
 to navigation. She also will remove any
 dereiiets found in the shipping lane off
 this coast.
 Mobile, April 4.-The British steamer
 Mexico grounded at the entrance of South
 Pass, La. late Saturday within POO yards Of the British steamer Parisian, which was struck recently by United States Fruit liner Heredia, it was reported to underwriters here today.
 ~--------~--~-~-~-~-~--- net ministers should be followed and that the use of alcoholics should be given up voluntarily.
 A meeting of the labor party at Nor wich, on the other hand, strongly pro- tested against the accusation that the output of war munitions was being de- layed by drinking.
 Defeat of Austrians
 London, April 4-q1 05 D. m)-A Renter dispatch from Petrograd gives semi official account of the defeat of the Austrian n, forces which penetrated Bessa-
 The Austrians were defeated and in part annihilated. A division of Austrian 1 Infantry and a brigade of cavalry held an organized position near the villages of Schievtzy and Malintzy. Two columns of
 Russian infantry attacked them and en- veloped their front on the morning of March 30, one column from the north
 and one from the south.
 "The enemy resisted desperately. while the Russian troops delivered many as saults with the bayonet. Cossacks came
 up and dismounted. They also used cold
 steel and the heights were carried Meanwhile, at the village of Roukso tine. about eight miles north an Ans trian force was driven out by cossaclxs with the bayonet The Austrians then
 began retreat along the whole front !,