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Title: Harper's weekly
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Bonner, John, 1828-1899 Curtis, George William, 1824-1892 Alden, Henry Mills, 1836-1919 Conant, Samuel Stillman, 1831-1885? Schuyler, Montgomery, 1843-1914 Foord, John, 1842-1922 Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916 Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906 Nelson, Henry Loomis, 1846-1908 Bangs, John Kendrick, 1862-1922 Harvey, George Brinton McClellan, 1864-1928 Hapgood, Norman, 1868-1937
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Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
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The "Eliza Hancox" rescuing the sole survivor of the wreck of a light-ship off Charleston, S.C. HARPERS WEEKLY, January 21, 1865.
John Cruse was a crewman on the R.B. Howlett, a vessel from Philadelphia being used as a lightship of the South Carolina coast near Charleston. A storm had destroyed the lightship December 10, 1864 the night before leaving Cruse the sole survivor of the seven men in the crew, clinging to a piece of wreckage. After hours in the water, Cruse cheated drowning when the Union dispatch boat Eliza Hancox spotted him the next evening around dusk.

THE SOLE SURVIVOR OF A WRECK RESCUED. ON the 10th of December Colonel MULFORD'S dispatch boat, the Eliza Hancox, while on its way from Port Royal to Charleston, just as darkness was approaching, discovered off seaward a large fragment of a wreck. Upon making toward it

a human being was seen moving upon it, and endeavoring to attract attention to his perilous situation. A boat was lowered, and the man having been brought on board and warmed, told a most thrilling story of the wreck of which he was the sole survivor.

His name was JOHN R. CRUSE, and he had been a hand on the R. B. Howlett, of Philadelphia, which had been recently anchored in the channel way off Charleston, and used as a light ship. Her crew consisted of the captain, JAMES BREWER, the mate, A. H. DEAN, and four hands. The vessel had been wrecked the previous night. At first her anchor was broken through the force of the gale, and she began to drift toward the northern bar. It was not before she struck and went to pieces. DEAN having been bruised on the head by a plank when he was thrown into the water, survived only a short time.
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