Show I THIRTEEN GO I TO THEIR MAKER I i Five Coal Laden Barges Reported Re-ported to Bet Be-t Lost CAPTAIN TELLS HIS STORY WIND ACCOMPANIED BY BLINDING SNOW GUSTS Heroic Work Saves Many Lives But tIe Increasing Force of the Storm Causes the Rescuers to Look After Their OTTO Safety anti Those Less Fortunate Are Left to Ferlsli A Thrilling Tale New Lfondon Conn Jan 2GThe ocean tug Sea King of Philadelphia New York to Providence with a tow of five coal laden barges put into this port late this morning and reported the loss of her entire tow and the consequent deaths of thirteen persons Including three women and two children The drowned are Prom the barge Crocus Captain Frank Hoffman his wife and daughter and a deck hand named Herman all of South Ambo From the Albert Me Captain Henry Tucker of South Amboy Deck Hand Charles Carney of Provi dence From the barge Fadingee the captain his wife and daughter one deck hand names South Amboy unknown all supposed to be of From Barge American Eagle Captain Hartshorn name unknown and wife one deck hand Captain W F Umpstead of Philadelphia Philadel-phia who va in charge of the tug tells this story We left Wednesday afternoon with the five barges In tow Race Rock Light was passed Friday afternoon about 5 oclock with the weather good and everything ev-erything favorable tar a good run Just before midnight a stiff breeze sprang from the east and soon < blew up a strong southeast gale The loW was accompanied accom-panied by blinding know gusts and at 3 oclock this morning tWe tow began pulling and hauling In a way that indicated Indi-cated trouble All hands had gathered aft in order to do something to avert the threatened catastrophe but when the three stern barges broke away and begun be-gun t founder we watched tem for about haif an hour all the time struggling strug-gling to save the tug and the two remaining re-maining barges frcttn destruction Ten the three barges went down At C oclock the two remaining barges foundered foun-dered and the hawser from Chem to the tug had to be cut At great risk the tug I wa put about and after repeated efforts lines were got to men who through the blinding snow could be discerned on the barge Xulty which still floated They jumped overboard and were pulled aboard the Sea King fearfully exhausted The tug unsuccessfully searched for the others and it was necessary to run for port t save the tug from the increasing storm None of the tugs crew has hope that any on the barges besides Mellican and Purrlch survived |