The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1959-07-17

Sci unLll TWO Ol Tile crew, VIII
heard them calling for help, let a
bow-line down over the side and
hauled them on baard, 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 the cabin windows and the
vessel commenced to break up aft.
The captains wife and three chill
children were then taken to the
forecastle, but the water coming in
there, they were moved farther
forward to the windlass-room.
After this the vessels decks COM
menced to break up and the ice to
come out. All hands then took
refuge on the topgallant forecastle.
The second mate was dashed in the
fore-rigging. The mate took one
child out on the bosprit, and, Mrs.
Hunter was dashed to the bits
with the youngest child, eighteen
months old, in her arms. The other
child was put in charge of the
steward. Pretty soon a sea washed
over the forecastle and swept the
child from the steward down to
leeward under the jib sheets. The
captain went after it and succeed
ed in getting hold of it, but an
other sea came and washed it
away from him overheard. The
same sea took the boy from its
mothers arms and washed it over
board, and both children were lost.
an 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
boat 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 while, he crawled over the
port bow and seated himself
alongside his wife, who was then
dashed in the port fore-rigging
with the steward and second mate.
The captain and the rest of the
survivors took refuge on the bow
spirit and jib-boom.
The Life Savers Appear
by. this time the life-saving
men from Station 10 had appeared
upon the scene and commenced
operations. The wreck had been
discovered by Benjamin O'Neal, a
substitute for the No. one surfman
who has home sick. He was on the
northern patrol from three am. 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 burned his
red light and started for the sta
ton, which he reached about day
break, and Immediately called the
keeper. The crew were aroused,
and while two of them went after
their horses, the rest, including
Stanley Midget, a volunteer who
had been hauling wood to the sta
ton, started with the mortar-cart,
containing the beach apparatus.
The south patrolman had not yet
returned. They succeeded in get
ting the mortar-cart some distance
when the force of the gale COM
PEELED 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 all
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 wa
ter running across the beach from
sea to sound, which with the al
most constantly shifting sand un-
der the mortar-cart wheels made
the hauling extremely difficult
and exhausting.
"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
moderated to forty miles. From
then until shutdown the average
velocity was about thirty-five
miles per hour. AS the wreck oc-
Cured about half way between
Kitty Hawk and Hatteras it is pre-
sumable that the force of the gale
was about the same there. At
times on the way up the beach
the sea was washing pieces of the
wreck-stuff against the wheels of
the mortar-cart.
The First Gun is Fired
Gas soon as possible after reach
ing the scene of the wreck the gun
xuos rloca in nosition and fired