A Storm Struck Schooner Arrives with the Only Survivor of Her Crew, a Shadow of His Former Self
Submitted by Larie Tedesco
Daily Picayune 10-22-1893; pg. 17; Issue 271; col A


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The schooner Bartolo Apostolo, one of the oyster fleet, anchored in the
Old basin yesterday evening.  She was out in the storm, and has been
getting home ever since.  She is a mere wreck, the shell of a boat, half
full of water, and dependent upon  an  improvised mast and some borrowed
rigging to make her way.

She came in towed by the schooner Salvator Russo.  There had been a crew
of four on board.  Out of that number one only survived the storm..
That was Captain Dominic Amato.  All the others were lost – Ignacio
Vivilaco, Joe Ballota and Camille Schinegado.

The crew of the schooner Salvador Russo say that they found four corpses
at Three Mile bayou, which they buried.  They were all so swollen and
discolored that recognition was impossible, but it is thought that among
them were some of the crew of the Bartolo Apostolo.