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Show awful e::pe?je;ce. 0F.SAIL0.TS IH STOIill ii t NORFOLK. Vs., Dec. U-The three-masted three-masted schooner Montana, Capt. Booge, from New York for Charleston. 8. C, with a carta of salt or coal,- stranded at .11 o'clock last night at Pea Island. N. C. life savins- station, fifty relies north of Cape Halteras, during a heavynortherly gale. , . Within twenty minutes after the vessel stranded she was fall of water and awash so that the crew, -consisting; of Capt. Boyce and six men, were forced to t;ike to the-rirr1ng, where they remained until un-til this afternoon. when ail of the seven men were rescued by crews of Pea Island, New Inlet and Bodies Island life saving stations. One man, Henry Edwards, was froien to death and was lashed-to the rigging In such ' a manner that he could not be reached, and his body Is still aboard the ship, hanging in Ure rigging htad downward. down-ward. One other man cf the crew was almost dead from exposure and exhaustion when he was rescued by the members of the Ufa savins; ews, but probably will recover, re-cover, although his condition Is serious. The rescued crew are now at the Pea Island life saving station. |