Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-01-20 | Page 1 | Sailors at Last Saved

Four Men Cling to Masts and Rigging.Tliirty Hours Norfolk, Va., Jan. 20. After clinging cling-ing for more than thirty hours to tho mast? and rigging of their sunken vessel, the four remaining members of the crew of the three-masted scoonor Harry Prescott were rescued by the revenue cutter Itasca, which proceeded to Wilmington, N C. The four men were nearly exhausted. exhaust-ed. After resting for a while on the jib boom of their vessel late yestei-day, yestei-day, they were compelled at nightfall to take to the rigging again and thero lashed themselves foi a night that proved to be one of great suffering suffer-ing in the face of a severe northwest wind that carried the temperature below freezing. It was 9 o'clock Thursday night that the Prescott, bound for Wilmington, Wilming-ton, N. C , with a cargo of salt, struck on the inner Diamond Shoals, when her master mistook the Hatteras light for tho Diamond Shoals lightship It was a battle for life from the start for tho seven members of tho schooner's crew. Her -cabins soon filled and tho men wero without food and drink from midnight Thursday until their rescue, save for what little lit-tle they were able to secure about their persons when it was found that the ship was doomed. Captain F. R. Philbrook, master .'f the Harry Prescott, is in a serious condition as the result of severe suf-'foring suf-'foring encountered when he with Mate T. S. Smith and Steward G. O. Robblns, cast themselves Into the sea from tho masts of the Prescott in order that thev might be rescued by life savers They are being cared for at the Hatteras station. Tho Itasca arrived off Hatteras at 0 o'clock last night, but it was found impossible to reach the wrecked mariners mar-iners until "daybreak, nvhen volunteers volun-teers from the Itasca, assisted by life savers, reached tho Imperiled members mem-bers of the Prescott's crew. nn .