Shipwrecked Crew Had Constant Fight with Seas and Fire. Capt. Segebarth and the thirty-two men who comprised the crew of the tank steamship "Chester" were land-ed from the American liner "Philadelphia" yesterday. They were rescued by the "Philadelphia" on Feb. 4 after a brave fight to save their disabled vessel, when they contended with fire as well as heavy seas. The rescue was accomplished by Chief Officer Candy and a volunteer crew. The tremendous sea that wrecked the "Chester" broke over her leaving the ship stripped clean as a bone. Two days  before that, on Feb. 1, the "Chester" had met with hurricanes, and trouble with her machinery developed. On the afternoon of Feb. 3, when the tanker was wallowing alone in a heavy sea lashed by an eighty-mile gale, a wave carried  away the entire superstructure, tile chart room, the steering wheel, and the boats. Capt. Segebarth, who was in the chart house, landed amid wreckage in the scuppers. It was impossible to steer the "Chester" and distress signals were flown. Late in the afternoon of Feb. 4 it was necessary to pump oil out of the vessel to calm the sea. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon the mast fell burying some of the men  in the wreckage. That night the crew was rescued by the "Philadelphia". On Feb. 3, 1901 within a few miles of where the "Chester" went down, Capt. Segebarth, then first officer of the tank  steamship "Bremerhaven", was rescued from that vessel just as she was sinking. He wears a medal presented to  him for saving the crew of the American schooner "George Bailey" off the Banks in 1900.