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Show SHIP DASHES UPON ROCKS' ! : Believed That Crew of Schooner Has Been Lost In Storm Norfolk, Va No. 2. With two of her crew lashed to the ringing and olhors undoubtedly lost, an unknown schooner ' cs today stranded three-quartors three-quartors of a mile southeast of the new Inlet life saving station, battor-ed battor-ed to .iocos in n 3S-mlle gale Lines have been shot Irom shore ovci the ship, but the two men ap-1 ap-1 cared to be too weak to sebe them The ship must have been caught and driven upon the reefs by the terrible terri-ble gale that swept the coast about Hattcras last night and tried tho resistance re-sistance of heavier craft. Many other small ships must also have suffered suffer-ed The lookout of the new inlet life saving station, patrolling the beach ' at dawn, sighted the wrock struggling strug-gling under the crashes of the slant, combers which swept her and threatened threat-ened to send her ashore In bits. The ' tall end of tho last night gale, still traveling at 2S miles an hour, kept' the wreck shroudod most of tho time! behind a curtain of waves and spraj . I but through g'asses the life savers I could see two frms. evidently men lashed high on the masts of the ship, which were d'pplng and stooping under un-der every assault of the sea Below them no human being could live. Life savers could not even ?et out a boat In the beay surf, which pounded down on the beach, and the best that could be done was to shoot out a line From the shoro tho two figures lashed In the rigging could be seen to move, but they did not grasp tho lines which repeatedly were shot within their reach It appeared appear-ed that tbe two survlxers wore eo weakened that they could not take the aid sent out to them. The wiccked schooner later was Identified as the three-master John Maxwell of New York, The Maxwell, commanded by Captain Godfrey, was bound from Norfolk to Savannah with a cargo of coal. |