WRECK OF TH HYLTON CASTLE. Suffering of Shipwrecked Sailors off Long Island.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 141, 13 February 1886, Page 4

WRECK OF TH HYLTON CASTLE. Suffering of Shipwrecked Sailors off Long Island.

Hunter's Point (L. l.), January 12.— The ten shipwrecked sailors from the steamer Hylton Castle arrived here this afternoon. | Chief Mate Marshall told the following story : " We left New York Friday morning. The Hylten Castle, a tramp steamer, was loaded with corn for Rouen, France There were twenty-two persons on board, including the Captain. About Bp. m. , when fifty miles east of Sandy Hook, we encountered a terri ble snowstorm. The wind blew a hurricane and the sea washed over the decks. We did not know where we were and the vessel decame unmanageable. When the storm was at its height the steamer sprang a leak, and water began pouring into the hold. The pumps were set to work, but failed to keep the water from rising, and Captain Calvin, as best he could, headed his ship towards New York. The men were halffrozen, the rigging was covered with ice, and every movable thing on deck waa washed away. The tarpaulins on two of the hatches had been carried off and the water was steadily gaining in the hold. "All day Sunday the pumps were kept working. As the night drow on, the water reached the engine room, and by 9 o'clock the fires were extinguished. At 6 o'clock on Monday morning Fire Island light was sighted. As near as could be guessed the vessel was twelve or fifteen miie3 southeast of the light. At 9 o'clock seeing theie was no hope of saving the steamer, Captain Calvin piped all hands and ordered the lifeboat and launch to be lowered. A half-hour later I and my companions took to the launch, and were immediately followed by the rest of the officers and crew, who took the lifeboat. We rowed away from the steamer, and when about two miles toward shore we saw her go down bow first, and then in a few secondsnotasparnortopmaatcould beeeen. We kept company with the Captain's boat for several hours until about six or seven miles from land, when it took a more easterly course and we soon lost sight of it. Myself and men were greatly exhausted and many of us had our hands and card frozen. About 4 o'clock in the afternoon, when about a mile off shore, a boat from the life-saving station came to our assistance, and we were landed and provided with dry, warm clothing and plenty of food." New Yokk, January 12 —The Exchange has advices from Fire Island that a fishing smack had been seen off the island, sailing westward, with a white boat in tow. The owner of the Hylton Castle thinks the boat in tow i a the second boat that left the Hylton Castle when she foundered, and that the men who are reported to have made their escape in her were taken aboard the smack. This boat, with a crew of ten men, was under command of Captain Colvin. When last seen all but tlireeof the oars had been broken.