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Show SAILORS RESCUED FROMJTHE RIGGING Four Men Cling to Ill-Riled Schooner for 3o Hours; Help Comes at Last. NORFOLK; Va., Jan. 20. After cling; inp for more than thirty hours to the masts and rigging of their sunken vessel the four remaining members of the crew of the three-masted schooner Harry Preacott were rescued by tho revenue ciiinr Itasca, which proceeded to V'iim-Ington, V'iim-Ington, x C. Tho four men were nearly exhausted. After testing for a while on tho Jlbboom of their vessel late yesterday they were compelled nightfall 10 take to tbo rigging again and there lashed themselves them-selves for night iliat proved to be one pf great suffering In tbe face of n severe northwest wind that carried the temperature tem-perature below freezing. The Prescott was bound for v. llmlng- ton with a chtko of salt and struck I ho Inner Diamond Shoals when her master mistook (ho Hatteras light for the Diamond Dia-mond shoals lightship. if was a. battle for life froni the start for the srviu members of the schooner's crew Her cabins soon rdlcd and tho men were without food and drink from midnight Thursday until their rescue, suf for what litile they were able to se. ijit about their persons when it was found that the ship was doomed Captain W R Pnllbrook. master of t ii Harry Prescott, is In a serious condition as the result of severe suffering encountered encoun-tered when he. with Mate T. B. niith aiui Steward G O. Flobblns, cast them-Belt them-Belt 1 - Into the sea from the masts of lhe Prescott in order Uiat they might be rescued bv life savers. They are he lm,- ..-ire for al the Hatteras station. The Itasca arrived off Hatteras at 8 p. m. last night but it wati found Impossible to rescue ibo shipwrecked mariners until daybreak, when volunteers from tbo Itasca, Itas-ca, assisted by life savers, reached the Imperiled members of the. Prescott's crew. |