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Show VESSEL WENT DOWN IN BITING STORM New York. Jan. 17. In the biting, driving snow storm of Sunday morning morn-ing off the Long Island Bhore. another an-other Vessel, the schooner Swallow, of St. John's, N. F., and her crow paid the toll so often demanded of those who go down to the sea in t-hips. The beach east of Fire Island for federal miles was today strewn with wreckages from the ship. Of the crew, probably Ave or six men, there as no trace. At 2 o'clock thl6 morning a beach-man beach-man from the Blue Point Live Savin.? station saw some black objects bob-ling bob-ling about in the tumbling surf close to shore. He hailed some of them in and finding it was new wreckage, hurried hur-ried back to his station to secure aid. Other beachmen soon were on the tcene, hauling in the flotsam. They finally came to a signboard which told the vessel's name. The life savers patrolled the beach all day in the. hope that they might rind some trace of the crows, but night fall came and their quest had been in vain. . It is supposed that the Swallow was bound from New Foundland to New York with a cargo of frozen herring rnd that she carried a deck load of lumber. Caught in the storm the members mem-bers of the crew probably lost their bearings and strul" iur one of tho many sand bars a milt go off shore near the Blue Point station. Theie t lie wind and heavy seas pounded the vessel to pieces and the men were soon lont. The Swallow was a small schooner of 73 tons. |