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The lone surfboat reaching the Mexico<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      Everythin\u2019 has  been always big about Rockaway, even before the big hotel. It used to be a big summer resort, years and years ago, for old New Yorkers, and I was reminded the other day, while talking of recent disasters at sea, that some years ago there was a big shipwreck right off the coast of Rockaway, which was, up to the time it happened, the biggest shipwreck that had ever taken place off the coast of the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      In two respects the shipwreck of which I am speakin\u2019 directly concerned New York. From all accounts the pilots in New York Bay were partly to blame for the disaster, or at least they might have prevented it, and the disaster itself made a lot of legislation up at Albany about the New York pilots, and was the cause of the present bill bein\u2019 passed about \u2018em.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      A bark called the Mexico<\/em> was seen one Saturday (New Year’s eve) near the Highlands of Neversink, New Jersey. There the bark hove to for the night. The next day, Sunday, New Year’s day, early in the mornin\u2019, the bark bore up to Sandy Hook. It had a signal flyin\u2019 for a pilot, and it also posted a signal of distress, the distress bein\u2019 caused by the bark having run out of provisions, which, I take it, was distress enough. It turned out afterward that the ship\u2019s passengers, one hundred and thirty-seven in all, men, women and children, besides the crew of twelve men, had been put on an allowance of one biscuit a day for nearly two weeks back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      While the signals for a pilot and of distress were flyin\u2019 at the mastheads, a tugboat, towin\u2019 a vessel in, passed by; but neither tug nor vessel paid any attention to the signals. Then the snow began to fall and the passengers on the bark, in addition to the pangs of hunger, felt the pangs of cold, and above all, experienced a horror worse than all\u2013the horror of feeling themselves deserted by the outside world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      All New Year’s day, while New York was feastin\u2019 and payin\u2019 calls. the human beings on board the Mexico were freezin\u2019 and fastin\u2019 and callin\u2019 in vain for succor\u2013a New Year’s day at sea which was the very opposite, in every respect, of a New Year’s day on land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      All Sunday night it snowed fast and froze faster, but they Mexico<\/em> kept afloat, and on Monday there it was to be seen, near Sandy Hook again, with its pilot and distress signals still flyin\u2019 from the mastheads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      But no help or pilot answered the signals, the captain of the Mexico,<\/em> Captain Winslow, ordered several guns to be fired to attract attention. But the guns seemed as useless as the signals. All the world seemed suddenly to have become deaf and blind, to the woes of those on board the ill-starred Mexico<\/em> at least.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Monday night came and the Mexico<\/em> tried to keep off the coast as far as possible, so as to not to ground, yet to keep as close to shore as possible, so as not to get to sea again, as the provisions were now entirely exhausted. This tryin\u2019 to do two directly opposite things at once proved a failure, as such tryin\u2019 always will, and at five o\u2019clock early Tuesday mornin\u2019, the Mexico<\/em> struck the Hempstead beach, near Rockaway, on the south shore of Long Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The wind was blowin\u2019 fiercely along shore. There was a high sea, a tremendous surf, and the thermometer stood at only four degrees from zero. The cold was so intense that whereever the spray of the sea touched, and it touched everywhere, it became ice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Wind, hunger, ice and water\u2013these were the four relentless enemies which the weak, starved, freezin\u2019 passengers and crew of the Mexico<\/em> had now to fight, and fight alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Alone for a while, but pretty soon the dwellers in and around Hempstead and Rockaway came to the beach\u2013most from curiosity\u2013but a few to see if there wasn’t some way to save some of the poor wretches who were perishin\u2019 before their eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Among those who wanted to try to save somebody was a Long Island man, a resident of Rockaway, called Raynor Smith. Then a Mr. Seaman, the appropriately named wreck master of the beach, he, too, wanted to do somethin\u2019 better than look idly on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      So Seamen, Raynor Smith and six volunteers, noble-hearted fellows, with strong arms as well as hearts, put off in a boat through the ragin\u2019 sea, and at the peril of their own lives saved the lives of eight others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      These eight dropped down one by one from the ropes of the wreck into the surfboat, which was, after a world of difficulty, fastened for a while to the bowsprit.. Among the eight persons thus saved was Captain Winslow, of the Mexico,<\/em> and young Broom, the son or brother of the owner of the vessel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

       But a few men, however brave and noble, and one boat, however well managed, could do but little toward saving nearly a hundred and fifty people in such a sea. For twelve hours or so the bark Mexico<\/em> held together, and the majority of its passengers, more dead than alive, held together to it. Then one by one, or sometimes by threes and fours, the poor starved, frozen, tattered, helpless creatures fell off from the sea-beaten ship into the ocean, and were either swallowed up by the water or were cast on the shore dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Durin\u2019 the time that the Mexico<\/em> was beached, and while the people on her weren’t yet all quite dead, the longboat belonging to the vessel was launched, makin\u2019 fast a hawser to it. Some of the men on board the Mexico<\/em> began to take heart at this, hope revived once more. But, alas! alas! by the pitchin\u2019 and rollin\u2019 of the big ship from the blows given it by the surf, and from the hawser being taut, it broke, and although the longboat, strange to say, gained the beach in perfect safety, it gained the beach empty, not a soul in it; which really looked as a fate was doin\u2019 all it could to mock and make mad they poor devils who had to watch all this and then die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      For nearly a day and a night the sound of shrieks were heard proceedin\u2019 from the doomed vessel, but about the midnight of Wednesday all was still; still as death, for all were dead. After one o\u2019clock on Tuesday night, or rather Wednesday mornin\u2019, not a sound was heard but the roarin\u2019 of the sea, or the crackin\u2019 of the log-fire which had been lighted on the beach to warm the bodies that might be cast alive on the shore, but, alas, which only reached it dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Meanwhile the waves were throwin\u2019 on shore every now and then their victims. And as fast as the frozen corpses were thrown on shore people stood ready to free \u2018em from ice and seaweed, and to carry them reverently to where the British consul, who had come down to the beach, and the sheriff and coroner of the county were holdin\u2019 an unnecessary inquest, and were makin\u2019 the necessary arrangements for the burials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

       Lott\u2019s tavern was chosen as the place for deposit for the bodies, and the big barn attached to this tavern was filled with corpses stretched out side by side to the number of fifty-two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The dead bodies were scattered all over the floor\u2013all frozen solid as marble statues\u2013all in the dresses in which they died\u2013almost all of \u2018em with an arm crooked or bent by clingin\u2019 to the riggin\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      On the arms of many were plainly to be seen the impression made by the ropes to which they had vainly clung in their last moments\u2013the marks of the twist of the ropes were sunk deeply in their flesh. In some cases the corpses were still attached to the ropes which had failed to save \u2018em.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Among the corpses on the floor of the barn were five girls, from four years of age to say fifteen. They were five sisters, the daughters of a Mr. Pepper, who, with his wife, lay frozen in another part of the barn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The five girls looked just like five angels\u2013five frozen angels. They were lovely still, and as still as they were lovely. Their cheeks and lips looked lifeless even yet, and their calm blue eyes were open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The five sweet sisters lay together, and near \u2018em was stretched the body of a negro sailor, with his head thrown back, his lips parted and his hands crossed as if he had frozen to death in sayin\u2019 his prayers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      A little beyond there were two corpses, lyin\u2019 tightly frozen in each other’s embrace. They had died together, and even in death had resisted the efforts of those who had endeavored to separate \u2018em. They were buried in one box, which served as a common coffin. There was a case of love which it was no mere figure of speech to say the grave itself could not divide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Most of the men corpses had their lips compressed tightly together, and their faces looked agonized, as though they had died hard. But the woman corpses had often a smile on their set faces, as if they had become resigned to death before it came.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      One dear, dead, frozen baby was lyin\u2019 on the barn floor, with its hand still clutchin\u2019 a doll, while one little girl was stretched out frozen, with her toes extended. She had died standing on tip-toe, freezin\u2019 as she died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The next day preparations were made for the funerals of these victims of disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Jacob Coles, Stephen Shedeker, Peter T. Hewlett, the De Mott brothers, and other well-known residents of Rockaway and Hempstead including, John Jay Lott, the owner of the barn, and Raynor Smith, the hero of the surfboat, took charge of the internments, which were conducted in a manner which reflects lastin\u2019 honor on all concerned therein, especially on the women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The ladies of Hempstead and Rockaway all went in a mass to Lott’s tavern and turned it into an undertakin\u2019 establishment, workin\u2019 day and night, makin\u2019 with their own hands shrouds for the dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The clergymen of different denominations took part in the funeral ceremonies, which were very solemn. Out of fifty-two bodies recovered from the waves, seven were claimed and buried by their friends. The remaining forty-three were interred near the Methodist Church, three colored men bein\u2019 buried at the same time and place with the forty white. Death, like love, accordin\u2019 to the poet, levels all distinctions. Thousands of people attended this colossal funeral, which was nearly two miles long. There were over three hundred carriages in the line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Three hundred and fifty dollars belongin\u2019 to the unfortunate passengers of the Mexico,<\/em> which were never claimed, were afterwards appropriated by the New York legislature for the erection of a monument over their remains, while the eight men who ventured out in surfboats each received a gratuity of fifty dollars, which they richly deserved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      The disaster itself could have been prevented had there been a pilot boat on hand when the Mexico<\/em> signaled for one, and the disaster made such a stir as I have mentioned above, that the New York Legislature took action in the matter, and before it got through remodeled the whole pilot system in New York harbor, and appointed harbor commissioners to oversee the pilots. So good came out of evil at last.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Editor’s notes: This editor knows the story of the Mexico<\/em> well, having written about it in my 2016 book, The Heroic Age of Diving<\/a><\/em>. A few years after the wreck, America’s first diving apparatus company, led by William H. Taylor and George W. Taylor, attempted to salvage cargo from the Mexico<\/em> and another nearby wreck, the Bristol<\/em>.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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