Year: 1879

some mysterious local potenate Consequently the
remains of the captain his wife and the three sailors
decently conveyed TO place of shelter. Their
friends at Millbridge Me-, have not yet been heard
from.


ALLEGED pEREIIcTIoS OF DUTY.


This morning the schooner lies quite high on the
sand and her hull is plainly visible to the naked eye
from the observatory of the hotel in this village.
She has her DOW III shore. the most favorable po-
siton for the working of the life saving apparatus
and which renders it still more extraordinary that
SO many lives have been lost. There are plenty OF
men here who say that there dereiction of duty
on the part of the life saving crews, but whether
they will swear to statement of that import is
another thing. Some of them declare that the gun.
boats lines. buoys and surf in position at
the waters edge by the coming OF daylight; Others
place the time at seven o'clock. From this hour
until two o'clock no line fastened on board the
ship. have heard il asserted that the Lyle gun
was first charged at about ten o'clock but do not
repeat this statement coming from trustworthy
source What were the men doing in the interval
between seven A. NJ and two p. M?


Lieutenant Walker Assistant Inspector OF the
Revenue Marine. left here about eight O'Clock this
morning for Long Beach in Captain Pharo's yacht:
He will make a rigid examination OF the rescued
sailors the life saving and the other eye wit
nesses OF the wreck, all under oath. superintendent
conduct of the witnesses. went back to his head
quarters at Bricksburg this morning In conversa-
ton with me before leaving he said that he could
not himself understand two points in the conduct of
the of stations Nos. lS and 19-frst, why they
had not used the 'tail block, and second, why, il
they were SO early at work they did sooner
ceed in getting line to the schooner. l re-
peated TO him the statements attributed
to the first mate-namely, that il the
would all have escaped to shore in that the having
considerably subsidized by ten o'clock and that the
life saving service had shown cowardice and mac
tivity in face of the fatal peril appealing to their
manhood as well as their sense OF duty He replied
that it probable that the shot line was attached
to the tail block, but that the men the schooner
powerless to haul it through the terrific sea-
II know, said he, "that the cut that beach must
have been very strong, because at Long Branch yes
terday observed that the ship Hannah which has
been high and dry the sand there for long time,
and is sunk into it five six feet, had been
moved three four hundred feet. Before this storm
you could walk down to her dryshod. 1t has been
very similar to the which moved the Amerique
when she was ashore near Sandy Hook and helped to
get her off.


'How was it that the unfamiliar with
the working OF the Lyle gum"


Because ut the time that made my last tour OF
ment along the coast these guns had not yet been
received. The government, sir, has been too mig
gardly in its policy toward the Life Saving Service.
have asked repeatedly for many things that need
but without effect, because the appropriation is not
sufficient. We want clothing; we want horses 1t is
tring task to pull the heavy lite saving apparatus
through the muddy sand one or two miles to the
scene OF a wreck.


'.But am told that this wreck is only half a mile
from one of the stations"


eff that is so there is great deal yet to be ex-
planned. II there has been any remissness and
shirking Of duty will be the first to see it pun
ished."


This afternoon the shore at Long Beach is strewn
with fragments of the cargo and the schooner is fast
breaking up The log book has been saved, but all
of the vauables belonging the captain and his wife
remained in the cabin and lost. The preliminary
report OF Captain b. Franklin Martin OF Life Saving
Station No. 10, to the District Superintendent states
that the mate when approaching Barnegat Inlet mis-
took the light Of the station for the Barnegat light.
This has strong SAVIOR Of improbability, since one
is small oil light placed at considerable eleva-
ton and the other is a revolving and flash light
about two hundred feet from the ground.