| Show ONLY ONE Ot O THE CREW WA AVED The Thrilling Story Told by a Shipwrecked Mariner WASHED FROM THE RIGGING The Ship Struck the Beach With 1 Fearful Force The Survivor Tossed About Helplessly Help-lessly by the Waves and at Last Thrown lip on the Beach Names of the Men Who are Missing Highland Light Mass Dec 6 During the night the Jason which vent ashore off here broke in two amidship Only one of the crew was saved He was washed from the rigging rig-ging and ashore by the tremendous gng seas The crew numbered twentynine of whom twentysix were drowned Evans a survivor of the crew to a reporter of the Associated Press told this story of the voyage We sailed from Calcutta last February Febru-ary with a cargo of jute butts for Boston Two days after leaving port we were nearly dismantled in a storm and had to put into Mauritius for repairs re-pairs During the gale our mate was washed overboard and lost We came in through the south channel last Monday Mon-day and shaped our course for Boston On Tuesday the wind pulled out to the east southeast and at 9 oclock snow began to fall We had no observations obser-vations for two days but Captain JcMillan thought we were off Cape Cod and we kept on our cuorse At 330 in the afternoon we made the breakers right under our lee and a few moments later saw land We shook out our upper topsails and tried to drive by the cape but had no sea room and at 715 finding we must soon strike the ship was headed for the beach The captain had been below be-low examining the charts and on reaching reach-ing the deck cried We are lost The ship struck with fearful force and we all sprang for the lifeboat Before we could cut the lashings the spars began to fall and the vessel goo go-o pieces I felt myself dashed into the sea All light and knowledge was shut out and I was left powerless I knew nothing more until I found myself my-self under the care of the life saving men My companions acted as I did and all sprang into the rigging when the boats went by the board and all i had on life rolls Evans recalled the of recaled names some of those drowned as follows Captain McMillan of Greenock First Mate Walker of Falkirk Second Mate Galbraith Gal-braith Boatswain Black John Callahan Calla-han of Cork Mike Mulligan and Wil Ham Gotter of Queenstown Jerry O ear of Plymouth C Neilson and M Carse of Portland Or Murphy of St Louis and Johnson and Hennig son of Sweden T Tie aiiners Rescued Hazleton Pa Dec 5The four miners hemmed in by fire in Chrystal Ridge mine last night were rescued alive todayi The fire is now raging furiously and the destruction of the mine seems Inevitable A Whole Fleet Fast Detroit Dec 5A whole fleet of vessels ves-sels is fast in the ice floe at the head of Lake Erie and all efforts to release them are in vain A Quarter of a Million Gone Norfolk Va Dec 6The steam engineering en-gineering and general store buildings at the navy yard were burned this morning Loss 250000 |
