The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1959-12-25

made instantly to resusciate the
apparently drowned man, and he
soon recovered consciousness, when
he was transported in one of the
carts to the Little Kiinnakeet Sta
ton, attended by surfmen selected
for that purpose, while the rest of
the three crews assembled at the
scene remained to complete the
rescue of the eight men still on
board the Esterbrook.
The gear being fouled the keep
er now determined to give over
any further effort with that meth
cd and make an attempt to reach
the vessel with the surfboat. A
launch was finally accomplished in
face of the high wind and furious
surf, but these obstacles, supple
mented by a rapid longshore cur
rent, were too much for the crew,
and ultimately compelled them to
abandon the effort and return to
the beach.
1t was now daylight, and Keeper
Hooper signaled to the men on the
wreck to change the hawser and
whip line to the lee bow, and while
this was being done and the short
end of the gear set up over again
as was necessary, he sent a team
to his station for the life car, which
he proposed to use in the further
operations, as perhaps under the
circumstances a speedier and pre-
ferable means of getting the re-
naming men ashore. When it ar
rived the car was slung upon the
hawser in place of the breeches
buoy, and four trips were made
with it, two men being landed at
each trip. So many perplexitles
were encountered that it was well
into the day when the last man
was safe on shore, and it may well
be accounted fortunate circum-
stance that the vessel was suf-
ficiently strong to hold together
until all the rescue was completed.
No lives were lost by drowning,
but the second mate, Charles Claf-
ford, who, as before stated, was
unconscious when he reached the
shore, and it afterwards appeared
from his own statements and those
of his shipmates, was injured be-
fore leaving the vessel and later by
being dragged across the head
stays, suddenly failed early in the
forenoon, and at about $3.50 O'Clock
gave up his life. From the instant
he was landed to the moment Of
his death every possible means was
adopted for his recovery, but with
out avail.
Just before he expired he threw
up profuse quantities of blood and
it was the opinion of his comrades,
as would seem to be the fact, that
his death was due to necessarily
fatal internal injuries. His body
was carefully dressed in clothing
taken from the supply provided by
the generous benevolence OF the
Wonlan's National Relief Associ-
alton, and then reverently inferred
by the life-saving men in the pres
ence of the surviving members OF
the shipwrecked crew.
While the circumstances of this
rescue were not extraordinary so
far as the weather was concerned,
they afford fair illustration OF
the methods of life-saving-the
breeches buoy, boat and life car
having been successfully brought
into use-and they also emphasize
the value of telephone communi-
cation between the stations, by
which three crews were easily and
promptly assembled under circum-
stances calling for a very consid-
cradle number of men.
The shipwrecked people were
furnished with dry clothing and re-
manned at the station until the day
after the wreck, when they took
their departure on a wreckine
steamer for Norfolk, Virginia
leaving with the keeper the