The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-01-13
PLUCKY CAPT. WO0DMAN.
ANOTHER RESCUE FROM THE LATE
GREET kTORMS ar SEA.
Crew Frosibiuen and One Frozen to Death
The Muster Of the Island Belle saving
Both His Family and Probably His Gran.

Ihc 0i the IHInnd bctte SUNfnu
Both His Family aud Probably His Craft.
The steamship California, which arrived
In tins port on the l1th, brought mother aud
her son. both feeble and almost exhausted.
They were taken from the schooner Island Belle,
from st. Johns, N. f., tor Boston, with as-
sorted cargo OF fish. The steamship fell In with
her on the 9th inst. In latitude i5' so north. and
longitude so west. The schooner was thirty
four days out. Her sails and topmasts were
gone. provisions exhausted, and all but two Of
the crew frostbiiten. The mate. Eidrdgc Dean.
OF Rockland Me-, was frozen to death on the 3D.
inst and was buried at sea. ALI hands, in
cludng tie Captains wife and child lived upon
uucOoked salt beef for fifteen day. 1t being i'm
possible to Keep nre going during the terrific
storm.
The master Of the schooner Capt. woodman,
would not desert her, and the California We
hin spare ana provisions, aud, transferring
his WIFE and child to the steamship. the FORMER
having fever the brave Captain Kept on his
WY ard II Is hoped that ere this he has made "a
port. Mrs. Woodfnan, who has gone to the Ste
vens House. and who has m de number OF
VOYAGES with her husband, describes her expo-
nence subst aniilily a. follows:
We left St Johns Dee. .. with fair wind
and rising barometer; but thi We otthcr was not
70 last Tor IN the nisht Of the 5th It bean to
blow heavily from the westward : ana this olow
continued Tor nearly ten days, during which.
when on u MAX. We lost all oar uoals. The
heaviest yale We exueucnced. however. and we
weatheTed nve--fuur from tno westward aud one
from the sOuthcast-was the latter, whose viO-
lehce was such tnat. on the moment OF its sttik-
ing the schooner she iay over on her side With
her lee schppers under water.
rue sails psrted from the spars as though
they hau been Tissue pagcI, aud every article
that could move danced to lerward. Inc
gr' 'atest confusion and dismny prev iIled below.
ana aDoNe decks things went -illl wofs"; tue
heddgear parted Ike shrcus. aud We expected
to see the fureuiast 90 over the side IS II was
II VS. BADLY sptun-. The schooner lay over on
her port ri4e 50 heavily "a to fore. in the bul.
% It
large volumes OF water nerc whirled up mo the
AIR, pouring down the hatchways. which the
sailors had not teen able, for lack OF tiMc to
oatten down. Before this was Doue the lover
deck was hif fun, aud the chests and furni.
ture were lJaiing ABOUT in dreagfuI disorder.
y man cta~ied ait to the wheel, to wbtch
nv hu-bard WAS clingiuc, and | heard him
scre IA in1o mis- ear tnat one Of the anchors mad
br ken from the cat heads. ana was hanging to
the cable under the bows. 10 let 1t rem iin lon <
in this situation. thunping against the bOws,
was certain destruction. and my husband went
Toward uluself and wi;n muc1 dinCulty cut 1t
away.
ine three seamen on deck were cllicine to
the weather rigging; the rest nAd been badly
frustbitten Tor several days and were uunt Tor
duty. The Captain stood at the wheel, but un-
der the shocks that the fuduer Received from
the sea II was with the utmost difficulty that tie
kept himself IL his place. Bltn tupmhsts uad
broken short Oh aud were hanging to leeward,
aud this tremendous top hstnper pressed the
labOring schooner down Oh her side, and 1t was
necessary TO disengage. lne peril Ia going
aloit was 50 great that the Captain did
uOt wish 10 order any one to the duty.
but he M tnaged to make the inen forward un-
de stand that tue vessel must te freed to live.
a. ever lufch the Ia ntinnist seemed about TO
spilhs out oI ia" schooner. tue weather shrOuds ;
tecatur axe straight bars OF iron, and the lue
shGuuds uuus over IN "A seml-circle to leoward.
or. VITA tue rolling, banged against the Ina,ts,
biehtculns destruCtton al every lurcn. Finally.
the tdpt in aud one SEAMAN climbed the
weather rigging. being forced to ciing to tue
shfouus VII Doth arm. and legs, and cut the
lln>ards and tOpmast rigging, and the schooner
rishtrd. The storm having lasted nearly iOur
uais Oes all to abate. aud the schooner drifted
Tor two duys anu then sighted the California"