Show LIFE SAVERS TRY TO REACH BURNING SHIP Hulk Is Floating About in inIce Ice and Night-Long Night Search for Missing Crew I Proves Unavailing CAPE APE MAY rA rAY Y N N. J J. J Feb 11 The U.-The The hulk hulit of the unknown schooner which was burned at sea last night off this place is floating about in the ice this morning a few miles off orr shore The crews crew s of five e saving life stations went to the assistance assistance assistance assist assist- ance of the burning vessel last night b but t after being out until 3 o o'clock clock they gave up the attempt to rescue her and rowed back to the shore Most of the crews were compelled to toland toland toland land at Anglesea N N. J J. J where the harbor harbor har har- bor Is protected the high wind preventing preventing preventing prevent prevent- ing them from landing at their stations The night was v very dark and the ice was so thick that it was almost impossible impossible sl sible le to force the boats through it The fire Was as brightest between 7 and 11 it o'clock last night ig g m men n he hee e advance the theory theory theory the the- ory that it became necessary to abandon abandon abandon aban aban- don the schooner and that the crew were taken off oft by a passing vessel Before leaving her under such a condition the captain may have dropped anchors and andset andset andset set fire to the ship In order to remove her from the path of or passing craft The lif savers life savers from the stations at Cape May Cape Point and Two-Mile Two beach who returned to their homes to today today today to- to day tell graphic stories of their long and un unavailing struggle against the elements elements ele ele- ments In their effort efort to lend assistance assistance- to the crew of the burning ship The night was about the coldest of the w winter winter win win- in inter ter and the darkness was almost ImI impenetrable im Im- im- im I penetrable In addition there was wind enough to tomake tomake tomake make the sea choppy and therefore dangerous dangerous dangerous dan dan- for small craft For sev several ral days past a great quantity of or ice lee has been floating out of Delaware bay and this is packed along the shore and extending several miles out to sea The burned schooner was first observed on fire at about 5 o o'clock clock yesterday afternoon At t that time she appeared to be Imbedded In n the drifting Ice The thre life thre were lifesaving saY life ax axing ing crews crew s from this vicinity were joined by the crews crew s from two stations north of here and these men battled for hours in a fruitless endeavor to p penetrate the Ice and get to the assistance of or the imperiled imperiled im Im- im- im periled crew of the blazing s1 ship p. p Their efforts were in vain however as they were unable to force orce their frail boats through the packed Ice lee Long after midnight the brave men gave up their battle with the elements and returned returned re re returned turned to the shore Their suffering was intense One of the surf men from this city Enoch E E. Roseman was found to be badly frozen and he was carried In an almost unconscious condition from the beach to the station where medical assistance was rendered re |