New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-05-02

forbear delivering myself OF mean speech
Amt you glad you don't have to 60 on
sounding!"
Tom was passing on, but he quickl
turned and said:
"Now just for that, you can go and &c
the sounding pole yourself. l was goin
after it, but I'd see you in Halifax, now
| before I'd do it,"
"Who wants you to get it, l don't. 1T
in the sounding boat"
at amt, either. It's been new-painted
and it g been up on the ladys cabin guard
two days, drying"
/ flew back, and shortly arrived anon!
| the crowd of watching and wondering ladie
| just in time to hear the command:
Give way, mem"
] looked over, and there was the gallan
| sounding boat booming away, the unprinci
| pied Tom presiding at the tiller, and ny
| chief sitting by him with the sounding pole
| which had been sent on FOOLS errand tt
fetch. Then that young girl said to me
"Oh. how awful to have to GO out in tina
little boat on such night Do you thinl
there is any danger"
/ would rather have been stabbed.
pilot house. By and by the boats Ian
tern disappeared, and after an interval
a wee spark glimmered upon the face OF
the water a mile away. Mr.. r blew the
whistle in acknowledgement, backed the
steamer out and made for it. We flew along
for a while, then slackened steam and went
cautiously gliding toward the spark Pres
emily Mr.. T exclaimed:
"Hello, the buoy lanterns outw
He stopped the engines. A moment or
two later he said:
"Why, there it is again.
So he came ahead on the engines once
more and rang for the leads. Gradually the
water shOaled up, and then began to deepen
again! Mr.. T muttered:
"Well, don't understand this. believe
that buoy has drifted off the reef Seems
to be little too far to the left. No matter,
il is safest to run over it anyhow"
So, in that solid world OF darkness, we
went creeping down on the light Just as
our bows were in the act of blowing over
it, Mr. T seized the bell ropes, rang a
startling peal and exclaimed:
"My soul, it's the sounding boat ~
A sudden chorus of wild alarms burst out
far bellows pause-and then q sound of
grinding and crashing followed. Mr.. T
exclaimed:
There! the paddlewheel has ground the
sounding boat to lucifer matches Run !
See who is killed."
! was on the main deck in the twinklng
of an eye. My chief and the third mate
had discovered their danger when it was
too late to pull out Of the way; then, when
the great guards Overshadowed them a
moment later, they were prepared and
knew what to do, at my chiefs order they
sprang at the right instant, seized the
guard, and were hauled aboard. The next
moment the sounding yawl swept aft to the
wheel and was struck and splintered to
atoms. Two of the men, and the cub Tom,
were missing-a fact which spread like
wild fire over the boat. The passengers
came tiockiEg to the forward gangway,
ladies and all, anxious-eyed, white faced,
and talked in awed voices of the dread
full thing. And often and again / heard
them say, poor fellows! poor boy, poor
boy!'
BY this time the boats yawl was manned
and away, to search for the missing. Now
a faint call was heard, of to the left The
yawl had disappeared in the other direction.
Half the people rushed to one side to en-
courage the winner with their shouts; the
other half rushed the other way to shrek
to the yawl to turn about BY the callings
the swimmer was approaching, but some
said the sound showed falling strength.
The crowd massed themselves against the
boiler deck ratings, leaning over and star
ing into the gloom, and every faint and
fainter cry wrung from them such words
IS, "Ah, poor fellow, poor fellow Is there
no way to save him."
But still the cries held out and drew
nearer, and presently the voice said pluckily:
IL can make il, Stand nv with a rone,''
What a rousing cheer thew oaye him
The chief mate took his stand n tba nIara
IF torch baske,. a coil of rome in his E'.nI
md his men grouned abont him Tho nawt
moment the swimma,,s f,oa annaoraa =, -
,ircle of lioht and in annther nna ~ 49, INV
If it was hauled aboard linn and drencbad
yhila cheer on cheer vent mn II MAS tba-
Ievil Tom. Nf was '"'''
The vawl crew se,robaa aror,-rh.ro b,.
ound no sign of the two men They nroh
lhlv failed to catch tba aro,d t,,, Hid
Jack, and were strnck bv the wheel and
,illed. Tom had never iumned for w..
ruard at all but had nlup gad baad +;rst ;n+n
he river ana dived nnder +La wbsaI !,
VOC nn.h;n -, 'no wheel IL
nough. and said so; but every body went
II just the same making a wonderful to do
ver that ass, as if he had done something
,reat. That girl couldn't seem to have
nough of that pitiful hero" the rest of the
rip; but little | cared: | loathed her. any
way.
Tho NAV ua o,mo 20 n,;,.o,
,g boat Isntarn fau ti ,'' ar ene sounu-
bis Nv chief sa;a ,hat 10 iiSnl was
nov no fol- away ard ~, = IN, VI.
aanod Go ,o sn ~ vi IL
ns;,;lr h,5uod .hen 10 Iook up
III 20 On. - ~ ;ha oeioM IL anu d
odd tna s a j., 'I 80 sleameI course,
,a;teS 10 vGurt 20 go; 30 np ssiean' anu
be oti;oer an, 70 ,aIL;nn. 10 .'N ne, ne anu
hen he indeed that the s,ea,rar uo Ma. up
pe reef. saw that rho bnoy Mos GOV, vas , o
the steamer had slresdys rnn o var
+: he went on with bis tall. ba not;oaa
lat the steamer was eettino verv cloSa
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