Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. Sea Tragedies Recalled as Autumn Storms Uncover Rotting Wreckage of Ships on North Carolina Coast British and Spanish Men of War, Clippers Among Grim Relics. By BILL SHARP Once more Caribbean storms have I. ted 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 again. Silent tribute to the craftsmanship of the old-time shipwrights and the sturdiness of their materials is the preservation of the timbers and planking of these orphans of the storm against generations of grind ing 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 tne face of the elements. Some of the derelicts now on view all the way from Nag’s Head to Ocracoke Inlet are familiar, and re call many an anecdote. But some are beyond the ken of the oldest coastguardsmen or their records. The Carroll Deering. One of the most interesting is the ghost ship, Carroll Deering, out of Bath, Maine. She was found on Dia mond Shoals in 1921, undamaged, with sails set, with uneaten food on the table and on the stove, but with only a cat to greet the coast guard crew which boarded her. The Deering passed Diamond lightship the day before, but that was the last seen, of any of her crew, and the cat kept her own counsel. Later she drifted onto Ocracoke Is land, sanded up and v/as lost to sight and almost to memory until the hur ricane scoured out her hull. The George W Wells, first six- masted schooner ever built, and then the largest wood vessel afloat, is also exposed. She came ashore in a 1913 gale at Ocracoke. Up at Nag’s Head were uncovered again the tired ribs of the quaint warship believed by many to be a Crumpster of Elizabethan days. She was first revealed by a storm in 1939 and her primitive construction and fittings aroused much speculation. There is some justification for the romantic identification for ship wrecks antedated colonization of these shores. The chroniclers of Sir Walter Raleigh’s Roanoke Island colony (1587) found the aborigines using crude iron tools which were believed fashioned from spikes tak en from a shipwreck. There is rec ord of a Spanish shipwreck at Hat- teras in 1558 and some of its crew were rescued by the Indians. Also on exhibition again is the remnant of the Ariosto, British tramp, a victim of an 1899 storm. Tae burned out hull of an old schooner, the Kohler of Baltimore, stands bleakly on a sand bar near Hatteras, N. C. It was unjovered by the fury of a hurricane. Drifting sands are piling over it again, and it will soon disappear from sight. SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS Two-Piecer Is Young ’n’ Smart It’s Roast Turkey Time Again! (See Recipe Below) Time for Thanks he started for home. While chang ing trains in New York he was run down by a taxicab and killed. Worst Navy Wreck. Off the beach at Nag’s Head is vis ible in a calm sea the bell, tank, and boiler of the USS Huron, a war ship wrecked November 24, 1877, with a loss of 108 lives—the worst disaster in U. S. naval history up to that time. The crew members were buried on the beach and relatives came, for many years after to search in the shifting sands for them. Cap’n Jeff Hayman of Ro anoke Island is believed to be the only person still alive who saw the ghastly affair—and ghastly it was, for subsequent investigation dis closed that some of those aboard were drunk that fateful night when sobriety might have saved both ship and crew. Cap’n Jeff today has the silver sugar bowl from the Huron captain’s table. Such maritime violence has pro duced a lot of maritime heroism. From Oregon Inlet to Ocracoke In let are some 27 holders of Congres sional Medals of Honor, possibly the largest group of heroes per capita in these United States. Six of them came as a sequel to the events of August 16, 1918, when the SS Mirlo, a British tanker, was torpedoed, and Capt. John Allen Midgett and five members of the Chicamicomoco coast guard station braved a sea of blazing oil to rescue 42 members of the crew. Strangely enough, the SS City of Atlanta in 1942 was destroyed in the same way and about the same spot, but the Chicamicomoco boys were unable to get through the fire. On the same day and within an hour, helpless watchers on the Banks saw a German submarine A mystery among the wrecks on the North Carolina coast is this por tion of some wooden vessel. Oldest records fail to name her, and it is possible she foundered many generations ago. The first clue to her plight came one cold, foggy December night when coastguardsman Mathew Guthrie on beach patrol stumbled over the body of a dying sailor, who gasped out the news that a vessel was breaking up a few hundred yards offshore. A Lyle gun shot could not reach her, and surfboats could not be launched. Twentv-one men lost their lives and lie buried atop a lone ly Ocracoke dune. Six more swam and floated ashore alive. Ironic was the sequel to the death of the four-masted schooner Anna R. Heindritter of New York, loaded with dyewood, which came ashore March 2, 1942, and is visible off shore. She ran into a gale and put out anchors, bu dragged onto the shoals. Capt. Bennett I . Coleman of Springfield, Mass., and his crew of eight survived, saved by the Lyle gun and breeches buoy, and after the captain had arranged for the “vendue” (auction sale of salvage) sink two other vessels and damage still another The Atlanta’s bones now rest by those of the Mirlo. One of the most dramatic events of sub warfare was on August 8, 1918, ' when Diamond Lightship, guarding the easternmost tip of Dia mond Shoals, was sunk by subma rine gunfire. Capt. W. L. Barnett and his crew roared over the boiling shoals 12 miles to the beach. Bar nett, now retired, lives at Buxton. The lightship added her skeleton to that fabulous Graveyard of the At lantic, Diamond Shoals, where lie so many metal hulks that compasses of passing ships are pulled off north by as much as 8 degrees. Modern “Flying Dutchman. ’ The peculiar configuration of the North Carolina coast, with the sandy capes jutting out, causes mariners’ anxious preoccupation with this area. Most dangerous are Diamond Shoals, an extension of Cape Hat teras, 12 miles into the Atlantic, an area ot constantly shifting quick sands. It is a maxim of sailors that once on the Diamond Shoals, no ves sel ever comes off. The Maurice R. Thurlow proved an exception, however, when she ran aground in a 1927 storm. The coast guard removed her crew, but when a cutter came down to try to pull her off, no trace of the vessel could be found. Thirteen days later the schooner was sighted by the Dutch tanker, Sleidrect, in the North At lantic. A general order was released to run down the modern Flying Dutchman, but though she was re ported from time to time, the sea wanderer was never overtaken and no one knows what became of her. In the shoals lies another famous ship—the pioneering Federal iron clad, Monitor. Following her en gagement with the Confederate Mer- rimac in Hampton Roads, March 9, 1862, the damaged Monitor was sent south in tow of the sidewheeler Rhode Island. A gale sprang up, and the little “cheesebox” sank on the shoals with a loss of 16; 49 oth ers were rescued by the Rhode Is land. Hatteras is a control point in set ting courses for coastwise and West Indian shipping, because the short est route lies near the Cape. North bound shipping finds a favorable current by staying in the Gulf Stream, which brushes the tip of the Shoals, while southbound traffic goes between the Stream and the coast, where there is a southerly current sweeping down from the arctic. Thus, ships pass as close to the Cape as they can, and sudden storms there are a hazard Alexander Hamilton recommend 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 an chored 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- striped brick tower as a day warn ing; Diamond Lightship, the new Buxton Light; and the modern radio finding station. No ‘Shipwreckers. ' While it is probably true that for many years shipwrecks were the “principal importation ’ of the Banks, there appears no evidence to support the charge that long ago the Bankers practiced shipwrecking and looting. However, some homes are partly fashioned from the timber of old ships, and many a house con tains articles salvaged from doomed ships or bought at the ‘vendue.” In this connection is recalled the most popular legend of the village of Straits, in Carteret county concern ing a preacher for whom Starr Methodist church there is named. During the severe winter of 1813— so the story goes—the citizens of Straits were starving after a crop killing drouth the previous summer. Frozen sounds prevented fishing, and the Napoleonic wars and a British blockade made commerce impossible. Parson Starr thus re sorted to prayer: ‘If it is predes tined there be a wreck on the At lantic coast,” he pleaded, “please let it be Thy will t' at it happen here!” In a few days a flour-laden ship wrecked on Core Banks, and famine was prevented. be a thankful The first peacetime Thanksgiving in America for several years can really be a thank ful one. It sees loved ones com ing home to be with their fami lies once more. The family cup boards, though bare in almost every other coun try, are full here. Yes, it can really Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is a very “homey” sort, of holiday. Families and neigh bors gather and share their year’s harvest. The food, too, is of the homey type: Mr. Turkey, proud, plump and bursting with good stuff ing; crisp, crackly cranberries; hot, fluffy rolls; relishes fresh from the cupboard in the cellar; and, of course, the crowning touch, pump kin pie, shiny and plain or topped with whipped cream, if you wish. One of the nicest centerpieces for a Thanksgiving table is made of fruit. There are rosy-cheeked ap ples, golden-hued pears, flaming or anges, all woven with strings of cranberry and clusters of grapes. Yes, pretty, and good to eat, too! An easy way to serve is to have cups of chilled cider in the living room before the serious business of dinner begins. Don’t forget to pass crackers, salted nuts, and relishes with the first course. Or, if the weather is a mite chilly, try hot cup fuls of tomato juice, spiced up with a bit of lemon juice. These will help break the ice and bring the folks to the table in a jovial mood. How to Prepare Turkey. Singe the bird by holding over a flame. Remove pin feathers with knife or tweezers. Remove oil bag from tail. If internal organs have not been removed by the butcher, make an opening carefully under one of the legs, or at the vent, and remove them carefully, taking care that the gall bladder which lies near the liver is not broken. The intestines, gizzard and liver should all be removed together. The lungs and kidneys which lie near the backbone must also be re moved. Clean the gizzard" by cut ting through to the inner coat, half way around, take off the outer coat and remove the bag which is inside. The giblets, which are the gizzard, liver and heart, should be washed carefully, placed in cold v?ater, heat ed quickly and cooked until tender. Wash the bird thoroughly inside and out, and rub the body cavity with salt before stuffing. Fill lightly with dressing. To truss the fowl (this is done aft er stuffing) tie end of skin of neck with string, leaving two long ends to pull it over the back. Turn wings GHOST SHIP This is all that is left of the Car- roll A. Deering, out of Bath, Maine. A storm drove her upon Diamond Shoals January 29, 1921. When coastguardsmen boarded her they found her undamaged. The sails were set, food was on the table and on the stove, but no one was aboard. Only a disconsolate cat roamed the decks. No trace was ever found of any of her crew, although every ef fort was made. Since she could not be floated again, the coast guard blew her up. LYNN SAYS Let’s make good piecrust: Ex cellent pastry is the result achieved from careful measure ments and little handling. A good, standard proportion is 1 cup flour, % cup fat, and % teaspoon salt. For double this recipe, not more than V* cup of cold water should be used. All ingredients should be well chilled before working. This is especially important when the fat is being worked into the flour. In this case the fat does not melt, but is rather coated with the flour, and the method makes for flakier pastry. If too much water is added, the manipulation necessary to shape the dough and roll it out develops the gluten. This makes a sticky dough and tough crust. If too little water is added, the crust is crumbly rather than flaky because there is not enough moisture to bind the crust. LYNN CHAMBERS’ MENU IDEA Chilled Cider and Cranberry Juice Assorted Relish Tray Crackers * • • Cream of Tomato Soup Roast Turkey with Raisin Stuffing Mashed Potatoes Gravy Candied Sweet Potatoes with Marshmallows Onions Au Gratin Brussels Sprouts Orange and Watercress Salad French Dressing Pumpkin Pie with Whipped Cream Beverage Mints A YOUTHFULLY smart two- piece dress for those occa sions when you want to look your best. The blouse buttons down the back and is cut to give that popu lar nipped in look. Note the grace ful gored skirt. • • • Pattern No. 1394 is designed for sizes 10, 12. 14. 16. 18 and 20. Size 12. short sleeves, requires 3% yards of 35 or 39- inch material. RAF Uses Knot Due to an unusually large demand and current conditions, slightly more time is required in filling orders for a few of the mos% popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 530 South Wells St. Chicago Enclose 25 cents in coins for each pattern desired. Pattern No. .. ■■ Size — Name- Address- back and legs to front, close to body. I Draw string up, on each side over legs, cross it and tie legs down un der and around the tail. Making the Dressing. Dressings may be of any type to suit the individual taste, but they should be packed into the body cav ity lightly. Allow one cup of stuff ing for each pound of turkey or chicken. Bread Staffing. (Makes 3 caps) 4 caps dry bread cubes 3 tablespoons chopped onion 1 teaspoon salt 14 teaspoon pepper Sage or poultry dressing 14 cap melted fat Hot water or stock to moisten Combine bread, onion and season ings. Add fat and sufficient liquid to moisten (about % cup). Oyster Dressing: Add % to 1 pint drained, chopped oysters, uncooked or heated in the fat of the above recipe. Raisin Stuffing: Add Vi cup seed less raisins. Celery Stuffing: 1% cups celery, chopped, should be added. Roasting Time. For a turkey weighing eight to ten pounds, use a 325-degree oven and roast the bird, uncovered, for 3 to 314 hours. For a 10 to 14 pound bird, use a 325-degree oven and allow 314 to 4 hours. For a larger bird, 14 to 18 pounds, use a 300-degree oven and allow 4 to 414 hours. Onions An Gratin. (Serves 6) Peel 3 cups small white onions and boil until almost tender in boil ing salted water. Prepare 114 cups medium white sauce. Place on ions in greased baking dish, pour white sauce over them, and cover with Vt cup grat ed cheese and 3 tablespoons buttered bread crumbs. Bake in a moderate oven about 10 minutes, enough to heat through. Brussels Sprouts. Clean the sprouts and soak for 10 to 15 minutes in cold, salted water. Boil with a small amount of water until just barely tender and then add melted butter and salt and pepper. Cooked, chopped chestnuts may also be added before serving, if desired. There’s nothing quite like a good pumpkin pie to finish off this dinner of dinners. Now that whipped cream is back again, the pie can come to the table, topped with glorious swirls of that luscious delicacy. Or, if you prefer, make a meringue and flavor it with maple syrup and then spread on the pie and brown before j serving. Pumpkin Pie. 2 cups cooked or canned pumpkin 1 cup brown sugar 1 teaspoon cinnamon 14 cup cream 14 teaspoon ginger 14 teaspoon salt 3 eggs 2 cups milk Mix all ingredients together in the order given. Bake in a deep dish pie plate which has been lined with pastry. When cool, top with sweet- ened, whipped cream and sprinkle with chopped pecans. Released by Western Newspaper Union. 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