The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-03-16
BATTLING WITH THE OCEAN.
village Of IgerOes-8Ien and Women
ing

a Village OF IIeTOes, 9Ien and Women
Saving IdSes
The following account is quoted by
the London Times from the Stockholm
paper, the Dogens Nyheter, of cOur-
ageous act performed by the fishing
hamlet of Cresswell, on the coast of
Northumberland, in rescuing the crew
of the Gustaye, Swedish steamer:
On the 9TH of January last, at five in
the morning, the steamer Gustave, Capt.
\. O. Anderson, went ashore, in cOnse-
Ouence of the fog and the set of the cur
rent, at the little village of Cresswell, on
the coast of Northumberland, five 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 were stove
at the outset, and the third, which 1T
was contrived to launch, and in which
three men were lowered, was in
iured and cast away by sea, and cast
ashore in the midst of the breakers
Every one IN this little yillage-men,
women and children-hastened, on wit
Messing the misfortune, down to the life
boat station, and at three O'Clock the
lifeboat was got afoat and manned by
thirteen out of the fifteen. Only two
old fishermen were now on the shore,
and the women, who had to wade out
into the water to get the ltebOat atioat.
After an hours tTuitless endeavor to
get ON board, the Iifeboat had to come
on shore again, and a message was sent
to the nearest Iifeboat station, Newbig-
- rnrl-at qnn1TqfT1E with
which to attempt the rescue of the crew.
The tide was ris ing, and at 4:3O the life
boat was launched once more, and at
last succeeded 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 were able to get
into the IifebOat, and the last Of all the
master. who left his fine and hitherto
fortunate steamer with deep emotion.
On shore the shipwreCked men were re-
ceived in the most friendly manner;
whatever the poor people had they
placed at their disposal; the crew were
sheltered in the fishermen's huts. and
the owner of a neighbOring estate, Cress-
we'll Hall. invited all the crew to dinner.
Later in the day the crews things were
saved. but much injured by the water
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
I help and Of pain. On hurrying to the
place whence the cries proceeded, he was
received by a venerable COuple-steers-
man Of the IifebOat and his wife. It's
/ poor Bella" he said; she was not salts
/ fed with being in the water like the
others at night she was wet through for
. IL I,-gJ of har
attacks of cramp on returning from New
/ biggin" 1t was this little pale fisher
girl who, wet through, on a cold night in
. January, had rushed along the beach,
wading through several bays by the way,
and at length had reached the next life
boat station to claim assistance for the
shipwrecked people, and to accomplish
: this feat she had been compelled to 20
ten English miles. Who those ship
wrecked people were was unknown to
/ her: to what country they belonged was
all the same to her; it was question OF
human life that might be rescued by her
means. l opened the family Bible, the
sole ornament Of that unassuming room,
and there read the name, Isabella
Brown, born in 1853" On the wall
hangs a silver medal, awarded to the
I father for saving life. Everything in
the little hamlet bore witness TO A long
. struggle against the ocean.
Fortunate the country which possesses
men and women like those who, on that
/ icy January night, flew to the rescue Of
+ the Swedish steamer Gustaye and it
crew.
DESPERATE WOMEN.-Jennie Collins
in the Boston Transcript, tells the fol
lgwiup story of the working uiTls of that
city: On a Saturday night, not long ago,
three girls came home with their weeks
pay. and, as the first one said, " Mother,
hold your apron, all threw their money
into it. / Congratulated the mother be
cause they were 50 good. She answered
. " wish they were bad, then II would not
break my heart 70 see them deny them
slaves" One girl, who was out
of work and in debt last spring, could
not bear the cross looks when she went
10 the table. 80 she in her despair wan
dered INTO a street car house, sleeping
,,,,5ora "a car three NIGHTS and sitting in an