Evening star., 1933-08-26
DR.. CampbelPs Party Safe at Newport Ne'os
after Rescue From Battered Schooner
Masts and Rudder Lost As
Bluejacket Is Roughly
Treated.
Six Haze Miraculous Es.
cape as Vessel Is Tossed
About HeIpIessly.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NORFOLK, Va, August 26.-Dr E. w.
Campbell, Washington physician, and
his party of six, including his wife and
their 12-year old daughter Mary, today
are recuperating at Newport News fol-
lowing their rescue at sea yesterday
from the doctors 50-foot schooner
Bluejacket by the coastal steamer M.
j. Tracy. The Bluejacket was caught
in the vortex of the hurricane and her
people fought to keep her afloat from
Sunday until they abandoned her yes
terday.
DR.. Campbell has a fractured rib on
his left side Mrs. Campbell is badly
bruised. Mary has head injuries re-
ceived when she was knocked uncon-
scious when the Bluejacket herself was
knocked down. William B. Brooks and
his son Robert, IA, of Pittsburgh. guests
of the Campbells, and William Sheehan,
seamen, claiming world -at-large" as
his address, are sorely bruised.
Word was received today that the
battered Bluejacket was picked up by
the Coast Guard Patrol Boat Reliance
.
now is being towed into Cape May, N. j.
Lost Masts and Rudder.
The adventure which DR.. Campbell,
whose home is 3109 Sixteenth street,
and who is on the staffs of George
Washington University and Emergency
Hospitals, and his party survived un-
doubtedly is one of the epics of the
Atlantic Coast, in the opinion Of mar
liners in Tidewater Virginia. Buffeted
by the gale. the schooner was knocked
down-that is, turned completely on
her beam with her maStS lying full
length in the sea-righted herself,
cleared herself of water and carried on
only to loose beth masts and rudder
later when either great sea "eXplod-
ed" on her or when she was dropped
momentarily on the hard sand bottom
when she slid into a trough in shoal
water.
Cruising the North Atlantic Coast
since May in the Bluejacket. the party
left New York at daybreak Sunday.
They were off Atlantic City when the
storm broke. but the increasingly thick
weather made it impossible for them
to get through the breakwater to safety
there, and DR.. Campbell said they were
forced to stand back out to sea. The
wind continued to rise and the sea
became more turbulent, and he then
decided to run for Cape May. 40 miles
down the coast
Tuesday night they heard steamers
blowing their whistles. DR.. Campbell
said, and twice during their perilous
adventure they hailed big cargo vessels,
but were unable to get their attention.
Dr. Campbell said he continued to
run down the coast and at one time
Wednesday sighted Coast Guard sta
ton and lighthouse which he was un-
able to identify. The weather got
worse all day Wednesday and the wind
was too strong to make sail. so he
lay to.
I'VE lost all track of time" DR..
ate or slept until Capt Otto Myer
picked us up" The Bluejacket reached
the center of the storm on Wednesday.
Seas around us were go to 70 feet
tall" he went on. "One sea knocked
the boat down and tore off our smaller
sail Broken glass Uttered the cabin
and our feet and hands were soon
masses of cuts.
"Wednesday night we got into shoal
water. A big swell dropped us down
en- the beach and everything broke
loose inside. Bill Sheehan was washed
overheard. How he got back on I'll
never tell you.
I'VE cut away our rigging and broke
off doors and bulkheadS and nailed
| them over the matches that were torn
away. We we're pumping day and
night We put out an anchor, and
the cable parted. We put out another,
and that parted, too. Then we tore
out a bunk frame and lashed drum
to it and swung this overheard for a
drag.
Thursday morning it eased up, and
we made a mast out Of Staysall
boom. and rigged sheet onto it.
I'VE shot flares and fired guns and
blew our siren, and though we saw one
ship. she did not sight US.
When the sun came up we sighted
Capt Myers ship. could have kissed
him."
Chief Officer August Lehmberg Of
the Tracy, sighted the Bluejacket and
was in charge of the rescuing party
THE Tracy sailors were marvellous TAX
ing us off, Dr. Campbell said. They
never touched our vessel nor theirs
with the lifeboat."
He said that from indications he
believed the storm was of circular
type and it was not long before the