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thing went well until Wednesday, the 8th, at about ten o'clock, A. M., when 

 she encountered a strong gale from the east-southeast with a heavy sea, ac- 

 companied by rain and squalls. During the gale the schooner was hove on 

 her beam ends, shifting the cargo in her hold, and laid dead in the water 

 under a three-reefed foresail. The wind veering to the northeast, causing 

 a heavy cross sea, an effort was made to take in the reefed foresail with the 

 design of jettisoning the deck load, and while furling the sail a sea ran in 

 to leeward and capsized the vessel. About eight o'clock, Thursday morn- 

 ing, the cargo having washed out, the mainmast broke off at the deck and 

 the vessel righted full of water. The owner, Mr. Rice, was drowned in his 

 cabin, his body washing out, and the officers and crew, four in number, 

 were confined to the deck, all below being full of water. Two of them, 

 William Vroon, one of the crew, and Augustus Theodore (colored), the 

 cook, were washed overboard and drowned, and the captain and mate lashed 

 themselves to the deck. A brig passed quite near them, and they signalled 

 her by every means within their power, but without avail, and she kept on 

 her course. On Saturday morning, the nth, about seven o'clock, the wreck 

 was descried by sch. Laura Sayward lying at anchor on the northeastern 

 part of Georges, and Capt. Moore at once commenced making arrangements 

 to go to her assistance. The windlass was manned and an attempt made 

 to raise the anchor, but there was a heavy cross sea running, and but little 

 progress could be made in that direction. Finding that the wreck was fast 

 sinking and that prompt measures must be taken, Capt. Moore ordered his 

 cable cut, having a whole string out, and a dory was launched and manned 

 by two of the crew, Dean Crockett and James Lord, who went to the wreck 

 and took off the suffering men. 



These men, Crockett and Lord, were subsequently the recipients of two 

 magnificent stem-winding watches from the Canadian Government, through 

 Hon. Edward Thornton, British Minister at Washington, in recognition of 

 their humane and gallant exertions in saving life. 



A Tough Experience. — Charles Lunt and Paul Nelson of sch. Waldo 

 Irving, haddock catching, off shore, left the vessel Wednesday, Dec. 29, 

 1880, to visit their trawls, and were unable afterwards to find trace of the 

 vessel, and those on board could not find the men. They started to row 

 for the land, but were blown off. Thursday afternoon, about two o'clock, 

 after having been exposed in their frail craft to the severe snow squall and 

 terrible cold which followed, and when, as near as they could judge, they 

 were about thirty-five miles from Boston light, they saw a steamer and rowed 

 in her track. It proved to be the ocean steamer Sardinian, on the passage 

 from Boston to England, via Halifax. It came alongside the dory, a sailor 

 got down and bent a line to each of the men, as they were so exhausted 



