Show ta lia ill I 1 C Ill ilert rt oil it limit of r V 1 1 norfolk 8 ono one of the mca 9 disaster d as tr ous oils phi bin owr ecks which ever occurred on oil tho virvinia britini i nt at 2 chii morning near alie little md ind life li savini anina station Sti tion fourteen miles from cape hemy the HIB morning was bitterly vold lol 1 and it blinding gnonE tonn L val oil with tile ilia wind blotting bi wing a tale gale 1 hoin tho the northwest dur ign lull lul froin in io bhonn the lifesaving life saving ditrol atrol from alie ile little lal ind life saving station sighted a largo large still stranded on tile bar about bardi from the shore the darn dam neck luck putrus wai only a few yards distant when tile alio vessel isas is as aa sighted 1 and both fired rockets to notify tho the crew of atio stranded ship that she elie lull had been seen been in it a little while the crows with ii lifa fe boats and an 1 a pa ratus were abreast of tile the wreck r 1 readied reached tho the ship in in lafety safety and an 1 fou on it 1 tho the hill ships ps cirtie were taken aken in in the lifo life boats and ten in in tile ships B boits boats which were flere laun launched chod for or the purpose purr MI the ilie boats were headed for the shore and with a steady pull the two beati aoah were milking good ool headway for tile shore ft lien hen a win wava bof of great rely pow or ir struck the holts boats capsizing capal iii if lliam 11 in in scantly and pitching their gwei twenty itt two to into the bailin boilini sea boa then began a despe rate struggle forline lor life and with miny many of the nien men it 11 as a prolong ed one the I 1 lie horr horii i fled life savers on the beach were vo crIess to swift their drowning brownin or the unfortunate Itra tigers the drow drowning brownin nin g men etero we 0 carried liy ily tile sea aea and sonic of thein were washed ashore As they came within reich reach they were picked epand up and endeavors were mado tore v iye atheni nail an 1 ili in two instances In with ft ath buee BU I 1 though one of were badly bjur ljur red n i the iho vessel is 13 the ho jerman still eizabeth Mi 1 ll abeth zabeth captain from rom irain Ilan burg iburg to I 1 I 1 baltimore ind and riot one of bar crew survives her wreck arpi k her fler cargo is 13 unknown as hilgh have thui hr far prevented Vre vented I 1 any to reach her jt it is 18 thou thought alit tint that she alie la Is leaking badly and in 1 at sunset her met was w is lit to re he giving nay dav I 1 |