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Show . t,,c ruDiuuicc, ugucn, utir CAPTAIN AND CREW ADRIFT ! . I Steamer Sinks and Men Are i Driven Out to Sea in Open Boat. i I CUTTER GOES TO AID j All May Perish in Turbulent S Waters and Bitter Cold ' j Wire Service Prostrate. ! 1 Sea Side Park, N. J., March 7. Eighteen members, including the captain cap-tain of the crew or the sleamqr Charlemagne Char-lemagne Tower, Jr., which sank near here, are adrift on the ocean In an open boat The last seen of thein, they were going out to sea In a southeasterly south-easterly direction. Tho steamer sank ;ln 50 feet of M'ater, three-quarters of a mile from shore, between Cedar Creek and Forked River Life Saving stations, six miles south of here. II. B. Thompson of Brooklyn, first mate, and three members of the crew were ; I brought ashore. ; j j The revenue cutter Itasca was slg- 1 nailed from shore of the predicament of the 18 mep, and put to sea to search for them. There are two big sand bars near where the steamer -! went to the bottom yesterday and the life savers were seriously "handicap- ' ; ped in launching their boats. Ono t was finally launched but was upset and the' life savers waded ashore. Captain and Men Adrift. Captain Harold Simmons of the Tower and seventeen mcu took a long , boat. U was so overcrowded that if they. were afraid to try landing on the Ic first bar and remained outside, hop- Jii ing tho turbulent sea would subside. 'Im Snow was falling. It grew thicker W.V about 3 a. m. today and the long boat I was lost from view. wfm When last seen the men seemed un- Bflflf able to use the oars and. therefore, S could not control the craft. Unless Ifl found by the revenue cutters or some ftwl steamer, it Is believed here all will |