Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-02-21
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BATTLING WITH THE OCEAN.


A Village OF HerOes-Men and wO.
men saving AtVeS-BFAVeFy Of a
Little Girl.
r The following account is quoted BY the
London Times from the Stockholm pa
per, the Dogens Nyheter, Of courage.
Gus act performed BY the fishing hamlet
of Cresswell, on the coast Of Northum.
berlsRd, in rescuing the crew Of the Gus
tave, a Swedish steamer. g
On the 9th Of January last, at 5 in the
morning, the steamer Gustave, Captain
A. o. Anderson, went ashore, in conse-
quence Of the fog and the set Of the cur
rent, at the little village Of Cresswell on
the coast Of Northumberland, Eve Eng
lish miles north Of the town of Newbig,
gin The sea was breaking heavily, and
the vessel struck violently at every
wave. The discharge pipe burst very
shortly, and the vessel drifted helplessly
among the breakers, which now broke
over her. Two Of the boats we're stove
at the outset, and the third, which it was
contrived to launch, and in which three
men were lowered, was injured and cast
away by sea, and cast ashore in the
midst Of the breakers. 9 Every one in
this little villsge-men. women and chill
dren-hastened, on witnessing the mis-
fortune, down to the lifebost station, and
at 3 o'clock the lifebost was got shoat
and manned by thirteen out OF the ff.
teen male inhabitants Of the village.
Only two old fishermen were now on the
shore, and the women, who had to wade
out into the water to get the lifeboat
aAoat. 4Hv al
After an hours fruitless endeavor to
get on board lRe1ifehoat had To come ON
Shore again, and message was sent to
the nearest lifeboat station, Newbiggin,
to fetch q rocket apparatus, with which
to attempt the rescue Of the crew. The
tide was rising, and at 4:30 the hfeboat
was launched once more and at last suo.
ceeded in getting alongside OF the steamer
and saving the crew. Several Of the men
had by this time been injured BY the
breakers, but all we're able to get into the
lifebost, and the last Of all the master,
who left his Ghe and hitherto fortunate
steamer with deep emotion. On shore
the shipwrecked men were received in
the most friendly manner; whatever the
poor people had they placed at their dis
posa!! the crew were sheltered 10 the
iishernen's huts, and the owner Of a
peighboriug estate, Cressvell hall, in.
yited all the crew to Giiser, Later In
the day the crews things we're save, hvt
much injured by the water. os
A touching incident in the shipwreck
deserves especial mention. The writer
Of this heard Of it on the following day,
and was attracted to the spot BY cries
for help and of pain. On hurrying to
the place whence the cries proceeded he
was received by venerable couple-the
steersman Of the lifeboat and bis wife.
IT ia poor Bella" said he; she was
not satisfied with being in the water like
the others; at night she was wet through
for six hours, and has now got one OF her
attacks ot crsmp on returning from
Newbiggin.P 1t was this little pale
fisher girl who, wet through, on a cold
hight in January, had rushed along the
beach, wading through several bays by
the way, and at length had reached the
next lifeboat station to claim sSsistance
for the shipwFecked people, and to &C.
eomplish this feat she had been COM
pelled to 20 ten English miles. Who
those shipwrecked people we're was
unknown to her; to what country they
belonged was all the same to her; II was
! question of human life that might be
rescued BY her means. | opened the
Iamily Bible, the sole ornament Of that
dnsssuming room, and there read the
pame Isabella Brown, born 1853 "
On the wall hangs a. silver medal
awarded to the father for. saying life.
Everything in the little hamlet bore wit.
pess to long struggle agaihst the ocean.
Fortunate the country which possessed
men aud women like those who on that
icy January night few to the rescue oI
the Swedish steamer Gustave and its
crew. .;.,. ..-.,Ib 81.