The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-11-16

shipping water constantly, and one
man was at work bailing it out
with bucket to keep it free.
"About half an hour after the
boat was launched a sea swept
the boat away, parting the painter
and drowning two of the men
while the second. mate and other
man succeeded in holding on to a
rope fast to the vessel which led
to the stern of the boat. The sec
'ond mates leg was broken, it is
supposed by getting turn of the
rope around it and he was sup
ported in the water alongside the
vessel until two of the crew, who
heard them calling for help, let
bow-line down over the side and
hauled them OF. board, the second
mate first, then the man. The sec
ond mate was put in the galley for
safety.
Child Swept from Mothers Arms
"About this time the seas dash
ed in at the cabin windows and
the vessel commenced to break up
aft. The captains wife and three
children were then taken to the
forecastle, but the water coming
in there, they were moved farther
forward to the windlass-room. Aft
err this the vessels decks COM
menced to break up and the ice
to come out. All hands them took
refuge on the topgallant forecas-
] tie. The second mate was lashed
/ in the fore-rigging. The mate took
one child out on the bowsprit, and
Mrs. Hunter was dashed to the
bits with the youngest child, eigh-
teen months old, in her arms. The
other child was put in charge of
the steward. Pretty soon a sea
wash over the forecastle and swept
the child from the steward down
to leeward under the jib shots. The
captain went after it and succeed
ed in getting hold of it, but anoth-
er sea came and washed it away
from him overheard. The same sea
took the boy from its mothers
arms and washed it overheard, and
both children were lost.
SIN trying to save his child the
captain was badly hurt, being
dashed against the capstan and
cat-head by the seas. Soon after
another sea was shipped, which
washed the captain off the star
board bow overheard. AS the cur
rent swept him around the bow,
he caught hold of the bobstays
and climbed up on them. After
resting there a while, he crawled
/, over the port bow and seated him
self alongside his wife, who was
then lashed in the port fore-rig-
ging with the steward and Sec
ond mate. The captain and the
rest of the survivors took refuge
on the bowsprit and jib-boom.
''By this time the life-saving
men from Station 10 had appeared
upon the scene and commenced OPP
erations. The wreck had been dis
covered by Benjamin O'Neal, a
substitute for the No. one surfman
who was home sick. He was on
the northern patrol from three a.
m. to sunrise. 1t was about four
am; the weather was misty and
thick, and as soon as he made out
that a vessel was ashore he burn
ed his red light and started for
the station, which he reached
about daybreak, and Immediately
called the keeper. The crew were
aroused, and while two of them
went after their horses, the rest,
including Stanley Midget, a vol
unteer who had been hauling wood
to the station, started with the
mortar cart, containing the beach
apparatus. The south patrolman
had not yet returned. They sue
ceeded in getting the mortar-cart
some distance, when the force of
the gale compelled them to stop.
"The two men with their horses
then joined them, and they again
started up the beach in the face
of the gale. When about half a
mile on their way they were join
ed by the south patrol, who hitch
ed on his horse, making in aN
force of eight men and three
horses hauling the mortar-cart.
They arrived at the scene of the
wreck about two hours after, they
started, probably between seven
and eight o'clock. At times they
were up to their knees in the wat
er running across the beach from
sea to sound, which with the al
most constantly shifting sand under
the mortar-cart wheels made the
hauling extremely difficult and ex-
hausting,
"The Signal Service operator,
whose sworn statement was taken,
testified that the gale commenced
at Hatteras, about half-past three
in the morning. At five am. the
velocity of the wind was sixty-four
miles per hour. At Kitty Hawk it
was blowing at the rate of sixty
seven miles. At noon the wind had