Show WRECK OF THE PHINNEY Vessel Went to Pieces as Last Man Was Swung Off New York DeL Dec D 14 Caught in the storm of ot wind and snow that swept down own from the northeast today toda the American bark Edmund Phinney Cap tain tam Alfred Anderson was piled on the sands of ot Sandy Hook beach and bat battered to pieces by mountainous seas Beas With th great difficulty her crew half halt dead from froni exposure was rescued by the Sandy Hook and Cove lifesaving crew after clinging to the hulk for tor several hours the last man having 1 ving scarcely swung off in the breeches buoy when the broken and battered bark barlt went to pieces and dis disappeared disappeared disappeared appeared in the boiling waters Not another man could have been bean saved HO 00 O suddenly did the bark baric before the maddened seas Suffering but Safe Tonight the Phinneys s crew are safe safely safely safey ly y housed by the lifesavers but they still are suffering from the hours of exposure to storm and cold while cling ing to the rigging The Edmund Phin Phinney Phinney ney was bound from Savannah to Perth Amboy N J laden with lumber and railroad ties The storm came caine upon her heI as s she hove in sight of the light at Navesink Hill islands about 2 this morning and when she reached Scotland nd lightship at 7 the sea was lashed by a driving northeast gale galeand nod and the air all was thick with snow Cap tain tam Anderson attempted to pass in through the south channel which Is I surrounded by b shoals but lost his course ourse and the little craft struck the shoal about a mile niile from the Hook Both anchors wore were let go but they failed to hold in the yielding sands and the vessel essel began to drift toward the beach with mountainous surf giving promise to destruction With clothing frozen stiff and exposed to every ever sweeping wave her little company hud bud huddled dIed together on the waiting and hoping for succor Heroic LifeSavers The Sandy Hook and I lifesavers lifeS patrol sighted the bark long I bt before fore she reached the beach The I II i revs were summoned and took the line I gun to the beach where after many I I ineffectual attempts they sent a line lino I flying hying into the rigging of or the bark Parts of the fore and main niala masts had already been snapped off by the rolling roiling I of the vessel and it was wa clear that un unless unless less Jess the men were taken off quickly kly she Bhe would go to pieces and carry carryall all allhands allhandS hands lands down with her herThe herThe herThe The imperiled crew quickly fastened the lifeline to it and the breeches was hauled on board At first r t the tho men were hauled ashore one by one but a athe as the vessel was wrenched by tho the pound pounding po nd ing seas they entered the buoy two at a time and were dragged through the surf to safety Ambulances from the port hospital at Fort Hancock were vere waiting on the tho beach in front of the proving grounds and the crew were given prompt attention All were ex ox exhausted hausted bausted Iaus ed and nearly unconscious from exposure Superintendent Patterson declared that had there been another man on onboard onboard board oard 1 he must have gone down with the bark It was four tour and a half halt hours after atter the vessel struck on the beach before all alt were saved The Sandy Hook lifesavers declare that this Is the worst storm they have experienced for tor many years |