| Show SHIP PLUNGED BENEATH WA ES For Hours Sailors Had Kept Her Afloat by Bailing CREW BARELY MADE ESCAPE Did Not ot Stop to Take rila Any I ny or of Re lie longing Captain Ui t Man III to In 1 Lease I itI IJ New e Bedford De orr Mass I s Dec tent balling bailing by b hand for 24 4 hours anti and wireless telegraphy that rought help at It last lant saved cared the lives 1 yesterday r of oC the 33 13 3 men on 01 board the Nantucket south relief No o ZiS S vs WH hel el went down a a few Cel after the crew had hll tumbled over oer 01 the lie Into their life le boat oni For six sis 51 hours Monday Ion a the lIghthouse l tender Azalea A had bath tin the th call for help lay la alongside ld the tho water waterlogged logged lIghtship unable mutable to Inder IH Distance owing oll to tl to the lie fearful tarul sit pel i u At length the tho weather veather moderated antI and ald then an aim al effort was wu as made lo to tow the tho thol l to lo runt nut after IS 13 tithes miles Ite had boon covered cl Eed the thc water walet which had been coming com In In lit II steadily II ead I through brought h a ii I leak lenk In the lire fire 11 room loom 1001 com coin compartment COl sinco early 1111 Sunday Sunda morning bi can ln to 10 gain In on the tho already exhausted crew ere ed and the he distress was Wl hoist hoisted hol hoIsted t ted Without stopping for tor any n of their be thi Iel launched their thell bout boat and Int Jumped J I 01 lIed 1110 I ii I o It I I I They Tb he t li 11 tt rowed tO tved only on n a short distance 1 when the ship Fhi eh Ip pluner t Ii tIme the wave ta sis Tho lIte Thomen men W ere K re taken 11 on III Oi boar boa id the which hurl blk bik to u them end every one wan waK brought hero hem stife anti and ld early eaily COI y I relief leC lIghtship No 00 o 38 J coma com COl mantled b h CIt Ca It J 0 en took t iok the C he place of o No o 72 i on no 01 Dec Ic S i j Tie The ven esel el elwi wi 11 U ed with wih vl I it telegraph ti nIt h herr err ory Cr At t a 2 SUlo a leak was WIS just above ahole the CIte lire III loom 1001 Plot IN in lit II the CIte i it it comport compart compartment comportment C ment of oC the vessel essel Por eHul hours the ho vessel wad kept tree Cre by IW aid of at tier her he steam pumps but hit tit mit II S It I wax was apparent that the water littler ier Wil mining and amid n a I was ni sent ent to Newport for aid During th the next few lew fel hours hOlls the water rose rapidly and till the tires Ores under the hollers boilers holen bIll hul been h el quenched and pumping by br mechanical means ceased Several messages leS I asking for aid were ent sent after the dynamos flopped lee ies lel by liy II means of oC storage hatter batter Inter During mill ull ul this thin time ship had hati been heen tumbled about In lii 11 one of the tle Everest I storms of the tho season seMon the rolling I A and pitching helped to open OP I her seam seam still further Realizing that hand balling ball log might ni Ight s tidy keep kee n the tl t he vessel afloat until Int help hep the Cite 11 1 1 men nuen started the tho tedious work of oC hoist Ing In the water from Crol room the flooded hold by I buckets the hand pumps heln of oC lit 11 till Ih 1151 US Without stopping for foJ tOOl rood or sleep HIep they managed c 1 to in hold their own on for 24 4 hours At 2 Monday one of oC the lie naval na al operators vAia wu able to send Bend out ono one morn more morl message 1 SIO stating that the lightship was WS In distress lud urging that help hel bo ho n Rent nt front from any nn where when The Tue power gave cave out before he could co iii il sign the thi Alln Two hours later the he Azalea hOUM was wan sighted by hy h thin the th light of o the tu setting moon The Thc sea hOer was too I Oc boisterous tar for to time thi Azalea to go IO near tho Iho t ii 0 rolling roil Ing lightship 1 I cli I sit ip it mid for fix sl pl x hours unIt re sho iho ho swung around within call cal to In Ii dash clash up In lii ease case elle the lightship which was founder well Sell wel down In the lie should At 10 the tw Ito ten sea the In Itt Influence II fluence of o the northwester tl which hind had har the tho easterly en s temi l it hintI ilon down n to I a n moderate mod era to roll tol I and al tt nil a 1 line I i no VHS Itt us C sent pent elt to the thc lIght shut ship front from the Azalea Capt l Capt Copt on tho lie Ito tender mind and Ild said p sa Id hI he Ito Ills hIs 11 men could coul keep krIl the M I until she itlie reached New el thelford the thu middle m Ill lo compartment corn r t IS a nearly y full tul of water TIle The big III which had hilt kept the lie II t Phi I p on au ni h em feet Crt the II slIpped overboard and the line from frol tile the Aza Azalea Azalea lea INI was uns 18 made male fast the hi CI con lon tinned to 10 hail ball hal although h greatly I ex cx 1 by hy II their Lb dr hard hit nt labors ml I Hut I Iii it t the thi t he new nev nel strain trull front from the tow lo line HUP tin 11 it the Ito how bow seemed to opi Oln u up ni ii I the I Ii e In Inthe Inthe I it the side of the tue th hll still Mill ti moie and onel the lie water vater at r began to gain on omi 01 the he crew It was 11 about HOOD when ii cc 1 I H miles had b hell n lorgen sen I Id I hoisted distress signals on the Cite Ii I p and Ild it mid the lie towing g striped et I t hp Azalea ran mu ral hack back toward the th vessel while the cre er crew of o tho th hi pushed pl their life boat OR t over the Cite NoM No 0 onn on cd 1 to gather up tip 11 tiny any 11 belong belongings Ins ings One by one they tho slid Ald down Ion the tho iu rope 1 Into tho the bout boat bOlt apt was 11 the he last to leave his hll ship shil Ten lati Inter laler r No o 8 which bad withstood sonic some OIO of ot the most moat fearful tf storms storm that over ever swept the thi Atlantic gave JUC one ono great heave anti and 1111 then plunged beneath the waves The crew cret crol Were dragged aboard almost too loo exhausted to stand They hl were sent pelt below helow ted fed anul then put putto putto to bed be where they th were ero sleeping when th the tender reached here shortly before beCore 2 this morning |
