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Capt. Reed reached his home at 12 Frost 9702
Street, Thursday. His appearance does not show that he had passed through a fearful struggle for his life early last week. He appeared rugged and (?), but there are great blisters on both hands which were badly frozen, while he and his crew were clinging to the wreck of the tug. Capt. Reed says the tug ASTRAL had been built only a month, and was one of the most powerful tugs ever constructed. The tug was owned by the Standard Oil Company, and at the time of the wreck she was towing a barge loaded with oil to St. John, N. B. The tug had a crew of 18 men, and all but one survived the terrible hardship they endured Tuesday morning, December 9. He said:
“At 5 in the morning the tug went ashore on the breakers on Mt. Desert rock. The thermometer was nine degrees below zero, and the wind was blowing a gale. The sea was too rough to lower a boat and we were obliged to cling to the wreck of the tug for six hours.
“The surf blew over us and our clothes were soon frozen – stiff. Our hands began to freeze and the faces and ears of the crew were badly frost-bitten.
“The tug was washed nearer the lighthouse about 11 a.m. and the water was only three feet deep. We determined to wade ashore when we found our mess boy, Frank Cummings, had been frozen to death. We carried the body ashore, and after a fearful struggle reached the lighthouse. “Fred Robbins, the lighthouse keeper, did all he could to make us comfortable, but we suffered fearfully for several days from the exposure. It has been reported that the revenue cutter, the WOODBURY, had made several attempts to rescue us, but we knew nothing about it. “We were fi nally rescued after being on Mt. Desert six days by Capt. Sorensen of the tug CLARA CLARETA, who was sent to our relief by the Standard Oil Company. Capt. Sorensen is a brave man and risked his life in getting us aboard his tug. He manned the dory in which we were brought aboard the tug and the heavy seas came near swamping the boat several times.
“Nearly all the members of the crew belong in New York and Philadelphia and have gone to their homes for some time, but from what I have heard recently they are not likely to lose any of their limbs.
“The accommodations at the lighthouse
were not suffi cient for so many men and we endured many hardships and were badly in need of medical attendance. “The steamer ST. CROIX, bound from St. John to Boston, passed us, but evidently did not see our signal of distress. That was last Thursday.
“I have been ordered to report at the
New York offi ce. I do not care to say what caused the wreck until I have made an offi cial report to the company.
20 December 1902 New Cutter on Maine Coast Senate Committee Approves Bill for Building One at Once.
To Replace the Old WOODBURY She was Built in 1864 and is Now Obsolete – Some Washington Stories. (Special Correspondence of Commercial)
Washington, December 20. Senator Frye intends to press through
the Treasury department to construct a revenue cutter of the fi rst class for service on the coast of Maine, at a cost of $200,000. It has been favorably reported from the committee on commerce, goes on the Senate calendar and will undoubtedly be passed by the Senate at an early date. It is not improbable that, if it can not be passed in the House at this session, it may get upon one of the appropriation bills as a rider. In making his report on the bill Senator Frye has embodied a letter from the secretary of the treasury. Mr. Shaw, regarding the history of the WOODBURY, the present revenue cutter on the Maine coast. It shows that the hull of the WOODBURY is wooden and the motive power obsolete, it having been constructed in 1864, the original cost being $92,000 and the additional cost of repairs since then having been $95,318. The secretary in his letter says:
“Attention is again invited to the absolute necessity for providing a number of new vessels to replace the old ones of the fl eet. The old, obsolete, in the revenue cutter service are a source of constant anxiety, not only because they are not adapted to the work of the service and cannot be depended upon in emergencies, but because the annual expenditures required to keep them afl oat and in commission can only be justifi ed
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