Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1877-10-27

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s'Gentlemen, in five minutes the saloons
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The first officer, sailor from boyhood,
whose head and beard were already gray,
said promptly:
captain, we must beach her."
The others looked their assent.
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"Captain, am ready to take any re-
sponsibility that a man in my position
should take. l am ready to execute any
order you give; but I will not take the
responsibility of running this steamer,
with six hundred passengers aboard, on
I to coast that know nothing of beyond
the knowledge have of the lights, the
reefs and the harbors. Itwould be mere
chance if ! got her'within half a mile of
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The captain actually groaned. He
saw and admitted the force of the pilots
assertion. For q moment not word was
spoken, while the ship went tearing on
through the water, and the premonitions
of rising tumult came to their ears from
below. showing that the passengers were
already on the move. He looked an In
slant into each face befnre him, lifted bis
hand and wiped the great drops Of sweat
from his forehead, and said s s. I.
sGentlenen, what shall We dot feel
the door under my feet heating! The
passengers are moving out of the saloon
What We do must be done quicklyi We
{ ere overloaded. Oar boats wouldn'tsac-
e0mmodste half, and besides o boat
couldn't live in that sea. What shall we
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Not man spoke. They felt as If the
horror Of death were shutting down
around them. They were brave, they
were calm. They showed NO evidence Of
fear. They could meet death as men
should meet it; but they could not tell
how to escape it. Suddenly the captains
face lighted, with light which was the
reflection of hope, of conjecture. of a
possibility. He darted out of the pilot
house, swung himself down among the
crew, who were busy with the pumps and
the hose, and shouted, with the concen-
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of the storm like knife:
sls there man here who knows this
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and Herbert, each of whom stood above
the forward hatch, bose in hand, direct
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through the swelling tube, downward,
kept their position. The captain waited
moment, while the light faded from his
countenance a. no response came, and
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'Is there man here whe knoxs this
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