A Crew Frozen.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 139, 19 May 1883, Page 3

A Crew Frozen.

Particulars have been brought by the last arriving mail steamer m Liverpool from the" United States of a terrible shipreqk on Cobb's Island, Virginia. The'large Echoqner Albert Daily was going from'^Baltiinore to Bridgeport when a terrible, gale "was encountered, and/tlie Ve^sef was driven aebore. late at l^iightl '^The* ; crew was rescued, and whetf'the 1 storm bad considerably abated they returned to the -Tosße],. with, the wSre^aiciionirJanied^by' Captain Cobband ; his force of wreckers. While the party were on board another storm pSpranjf, up ve^y^uad^lyv 'and J the ' ' wreckers returned to the shore._ Captain Cobb, said he would stay by the ship, .and thl s Vessel's crew stayed w?th_ hijn. , The wind, however, increased' terribly," and blew with hurricane force. £!he ffchQon** was bump'^cl anT tosßec| about, and commenced to fillwitb water- and,ajl hands had to go to4he Vop of the foretibus.e, m which pbsitio«>-thi?y; ri-tnalned • iiiitlPthe next.iUofriingi''" -There was no abate-, ment_otthe gale^ and — the forehouse being too perilous a place for the men, they all took to ifie ngging. They were compell d t^remnin^ there another 24 hours, when tfe stprpri abated. The wreckers after iolrtintf^d Efforts, .succeeded inciting; joig board.^ .when lihey found that the stewajiihad been washed frojnjtbe fprehpuse; and drowned^ _while one or tHe wreckers^ who did not go ashore was frozen t6 death m! the riggi«jg-^ oTA^;>°f0 T A^;>°f $& '$&% -iWS»i t nozenandi insensible, and had to be carried ashore in o tb!a|: state., At jlateßlb accounts 'tKey were, in; a f yery -p»jiica) j|ajjß>,y.v. a;w