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Show THE Rich COUNTY REAPER RANDOLPH, UTAH Tragedies Recaltad as Autumn Storms Uncover RottingJWreckage of Ships on North Carolina Coast $69 British pind Men Spanish of War, Clippers V ' eAw The teacher inquired whether the rnpils had any favorite song they would like to sing. The National Anthem " suggested Among Grim Relics. one. What made you think of the National Anthem ?" By BILL SHARP , Once more Caribbean storms have lifted the curtain on hundreds of tragedies which were, played out on the lonely beaches of the Outer Banks of North Carolina in the'past three centuries but as usual, it is a fleeting show. Sand swept away by tides of the September hurricane already is drifting back with mild southwest winds, and before long most of the exposed wrecks will be hidden Silent of the Aint Love Grand! He Every time I kiss Strategy i. Because," replied the boy, then time to go home." makes me a better man. She Well, you dont have to try to get a halo in one evening. Butting Into other peoples busiits ness isnt the best way to use youi head. Well, After All! And Mrs. If She Hits Father Young man, what do do you mean, "For City Editor--Wh- at you mean by bringing Dorothy girls, marriage is a hit or miss propose home at six in the morning? tion? Sob Sister Well, if a girl doesn't Charlip Well, my gosh! I have to be at work by seven. make a hit, she remains a miss. SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK Pineapple Doily Easy to Crochet again. tribute to the craftsmanship e shipwrights and old-tim- 5186) send 16 cents in coin, your name, sturdiness of their materials is preservation of the timbers and planking of these orphans of the storm against generations of grinding sand and pounding wave. When iron men went down to the sea in ships with hearts of oak, it was not the ships that failed in the face of the elements. Some of the derelicts now on view all the way from Nags Head to the the address and the pattern number. SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK Mission St., San Francisco, Calif. Enclose 16 cents for Pattern 709 No- - The burned out hull of an old schooner, the Kohler of Baltimore, stands bleakly on a sand bar near Hatteras, N. C. It was uncovered by the fury of a hurricane. Drifting sands are piling over it and it will again, soon disappear from sight. Ocracoke Inlet are fanjiljar, and recall many an anecdote. But some he started for home. While chang- area of constantly quick are beyond the ken of the oldest trains in New York he was run sands. It is a maxim shifting ing of sailors that or their records. coastguardsmen down by a taxicab and killed. once on the Diamond Shoals, no vesThe Carroll Deering. Worst Navy Wreck. sel ever comes off. One of the most interesting is the Off the beach at Nags Head is visThe Maurice R. Thurlow proved ghost ship, Carroll Deering, out of ible in a calm sea the bell, tank, an exception, however, when she ran Bath, Maine. She was found on Diaand boiler of the USS Huron, a war- aground in a 1927 storm. The coast mond Shoals in 1921, undamaged, ship wrecked November 24, 1877, guard removed her crew, but when with sails set, with uneaten food on with a loss of 108 lives the worst a cutter came down to try to pull the table and on the stove, but with disaster in U. S. naval history up to her off, no trace of the vessel could only a cat to greet the coast guard that time. The crew members were be found. Thirteen days later the crew which boarded her. buried on the beach and relatives schooner was sighted by the Dutch The Deering passed Diamond came, for many years after to tanker, Sleidrect, in the North Atlightship the day before, but that search in the shifting sands for lantic. A general order was released was the last seen of any of her crew, them. Capn Jeff Hayman of Ro- to run down the modern Flying and the cat kept her own counsel. anoke Island is believed to be the Dutchman, but though she was reLater she drifted onto Ocracoke Isonly person still alive who saw the ported from time to time, the sea land, sanded up and was lost to sight ghastly affair and ghastly it was, wanderer was never overtaken and and almost to memory until the hurr- for subsequent investigation dis- no one knows what became of her. icane scoured out her hull. closed that some of those aboard In the shoals lies another famous The George W Wells, first were drunk that fateful night when ship the pioneering Federal ironschooner ever built, and sobriety might have saved both ship clad, Monitor. Following her enthen the largest wood vessel afloat, and crew. Capn Jeff today has the gagement with the Confederate Mer-rimis also exposed. She came ashore silver sugar bowl from the Huron in Hampton Roads, March 9, in a 1913 the table. 1862, gale at Ocracoke. damaged Monitor was sent captains Up at Nags Head were uncovered Such maritime violence has pro- south in tow of the sidewheeler again the tired ribs of the quaint duced a lot of maritime heroism. Rhode Island. A gale sprang up, warship believed by many to be a From Oregon Inlet to Ocracoke Inand the little cheesebox sank on Crumpster of Elizabethan days. She let are some 27 holders of Congresthe shoals with a loss of 16; 49 othwas first revealed by a storm in 1939 sional Medals of Honor, possibly the ers were rescued by the Rhode Isand her primitive construction and largest group of heroes per capita land.' fittings aroused much speculation. Hatteras is a control point in setin these United States. Six of them' There is some justification for the came as a sequel to the events of ting courses for coastwise and West romantic identification, for shipAugust 16, 1918, when the SS Mirlo, Indian shipping, because the shortwrecks antedated colonization of a British tanker, was torpedoed, and est route lies near the Cape. Norththese shores. The chroniclers of Sir Capt. John Allen Midgett and five bound shipping finds a favorable Walter Roanoke Island members of the Chicamicomoco current by staying in the Gulf Raleighs colony (1587) found the aborigines coast guard station braved a sea of Stream, which brushes the tip of the using crude iron tools which were blazing oil to rescue 42 members of Shoals, while southbound traffic believed fashioned from spikes takthe crew. Strangely enough, the SS goes between the Stream and the en from a shipwreck. There is rec- City of Atlanta in 1942 was destroyed coast, where there is a southerly ord of a s in the same way and about the same current sweeping down from the Spanish shipwreck at in 1558 and some of its crew spot, but the, Chicamicomoco boys arctic. Thus, ships pass as close to were rescued were unable to get through the fire. the Cape as they can, and sudden by the Indians. Also on exhibition again , is the On the same day and within an storms there are a hazard remnant of the Ariosto, British hour, helpless watchers on the Alexander Hamilton recommendtramp, a victim of an 1899 storm. Banks saw a German submarine ed a lighthouse at Hatteras in 1794, and it was completed in 1798, but was too low to provide an adequate signal. In 1870 a new light, 190 feet high, was built (highest brick light in the world) and served until 1936 when the encroaching sea led the government to erect still another light further inland at Buxton. Diamond Lightship also was anchored at the tip of the Shoals, and a navy radio direction station was set up at the Cape Inasmuch as the new steelgirder lighthouse is not visible to ocean ships by day, the cape now has four navigation aids for the mariner the old spiral-stripe- d brick tower as a day warning; Diamond Lightship, the new Buxton Light; and the modern radio finding station. No Shipwreckers. While it is probably true that for A n many years shipwrecks were the mystery among the wrecks on the North Carolina coast is this of the of some wooden vessel. Oldest records fail to name her, and it is principal importation no evidence to there Possible she foundered Banks, appears many generations ago. support the charge that long ago the rst cue her Plight came one sink two other vessels and damage Bankers practiced shipwrecking and rnM The Atlantas bones looting. However, some homes are foggy December night when still another now uardsman rest by those of the Mirlo. Mathew Guthrie partly fashioned from the timber of nnu old ships, and many a house conevents most of One dramatic the the over ,"eac1 stumbled patrol b a dying sailor, who gasped of sub warfare was on August 8, tains articles salvaged from doomed out news that a vessel was 1918, when Diamond Lightship, ships or bought at the vendue. bre In this connection is recalled the aking up a few hundred yards guarding the easternmost tip of Diamost popular legend of the village of A kyle gun shot could not mond Shoals, was sunk by submarpa ul' aer and surfboats could not rine gunfire. Capt. W. L. Barnett and Straits, in Carteret county concernb , aunched. Twenty-on- e men lost his crew roared over the boiling ing a preacher for whom Starr lves and lie buried atop a lone-iLshoals 12 miles to the beach. Bar- Methodist church there is named. Ijv racoke dune. Six more swam nett, now retired, lives at Buxton. During the severe winter of 1813 The lightship added her skeleton to so the story goes the citizens of :T fl?ateJ ashore alive, Was the to thniC the that fabulous Graveyard of the At- Straits were starving after a crop-killideath se(lue! of drouth the previous summer. schooner Anna R. lantic, Diamond Shoals, where lie so jjpsounds prevented fishing, Frozen of of d5ltter New York, loaded many metal hulks that compasses Vith the and off Napoleonic wars and a north which are ashore came Wod, by pulled passing ships off-h1942 British blockade made commerce 8 degrees. as horph as much and is visible ou e ran foto a gale and put Modern Flying Dutchman. impossible. Parson Starr thus re" If it is predes sorted to prayer: . nchors, but of the onto the The peculiar configuration dragged Capt. Bennett D. Coleman North Carolina coast, with the sandy tined there be a wreck on the Atlantic coast, he pleaded, please gfield, Mass., and his crew capes jutting out, causes mariners let it be Thy will that it happen with this anxious preoccupation un ;Slirvived saved by the Lyle n In a few days a kreeches here! Pan are Diamond Most area. and after the dangerous buoy, Core on wrecked Hataptain had arranged for the Shoals, an extension of Cape Banks, and ship was famine 12 an the miles into prevented. (auction sale of salvage) teras, Atlantic, six-mast- ed ac Hat-tera- Name. Address. Try Making Cough Syrup at Home. Quick Relief Saves Big Dollars. No Cooking. No matterwhat you usually use for coughs due to colds; you'll be more than surprised when you make up this simple home mixture and give It a trial. You'll wonder why you never used it before. It certainly does the work In a hurry. Make a syrup by stirring 2 cups of granulated sugar and one cup of water a few moments, until dissolved. 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