Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1880-11-11

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turned to the best men of the SIX that re-
manned, and ordered them to follow.
They ebeyed, and then as the other
four were preparing to follow them, he
shouted:
"Shove off! She's full enough, Davis ::
put you in command"
1t was an unexpected order, and SEEM
cd like death warrant to four men be-
sides himself
Two of the men still on deck, with
angry oaths, rushed past him and made
leap for the yawl, while half dozen
voices rose In remonstrance from below.
Bnt Van Anden sternly repeated his
order:
"Shove off, and raised his Delaying
pin threateningly at the two men left
with him, who stood undoubtedly for a
few moments.
"Aye, aye, STRIP came from the yawl,
and she was pushed off.
"You'l find an inlet two or three miles
south. Try and make that and you can
get ashore.' he shouted to Davis.
"Aye-aye, STRIP came up once more
from Dick Davis, and the men bent to
Tie OATS anu pulAcu away.
Van Anden turned to his two remain
ing men.
"Your chances are better with me than
they would have been in the yawl," he
said. ''There are two more in her now
than she can safely carry, and we can get
ashore on raft"
He spoke thus to keep their courage
up, although he knew that raft would
be manageable. 1t seemed, however,
to be the only chance remaining, and he
was going to try.
The men were sullen, but knowing as
well as he that there was no other chance
helped him as he began to lash together
some of the debris that strewed the deck
But before they had accomplished their
purpose, the ship gave sudden lurch,
and then they knew she was going down
lash yourselves to a spar" cried Van
Anden, suiting the action to the word
and then all were struggling in the wild
| waters.
Van Anden was submerged for a few
moments, which seemed like hours to
him, and when he came to the surface he
realized that he held in tenacious grip
one end OF piece of rope that he had
thrown twice around his waist. The 9th.
er end was fast to spar, and he was thus
kept afoat.
He looked around, but could see moth
ing of the two sa1lers who had been with
him.
"Poor fellows" he thought 81 have
sacrificed their lives, but it was to save
the others that did it."
He had little time for moralizing, how
ever,tor his thoughts were speedily direct
ed to his own probable fate.
During the little time that had elapsed
since Captain Butler put off In his boa
the steamer had been driven in shore I'm
til when she had at length sunk, she wa
within half mile of the long row O
breakers.
Van Anden he'd recognized the coast
and k new of the inlet to which he hac
directed Davis.
He also knew that he was drifting di
rectly toward a rocky point where h
would probably be dashed to death b,
the waves.
It was only matter of few minutes
and with proud sense of having dom
his duty as far as he could, he breathed {
short prayer for Miss Danforth's safet,
and for his own, and waited as calmly a
he could tor the shock.
On and on went the spar, until a
length 1t was hurled far up on the rock
by mighty wave that broke further il
than the other.
A dull crash was all that Van Andel
felt and then he was unconscious.
When he came to himself he was iyin!
in large comfortable bed and kind
motherly-looking woman was watchin.
beside him.
"Where am II" he asked in voice tina
surprised him by its weakness.
"Y0u are among friends" was tn
reply.
He was too weak to question the wo
man any further, and he shut his eye
again, contented with the one wor'
friends" while the joyful nurse stol
her patients recovery from delirium t
the kind hearted family who had hal
bored the stranger.
In a day or two more he was stron
enough to listen while he was told ths
he had been found on the shore insensi
BILE, and bleeding from wound on th
head, and had been cared for by Capta1
Withers, retired sailor, and his famil,
When he asked if my one else ha
been yicked up he was told no, and b
supposed that he was the only survivor
His recovery was rapid, and in a fe'
days he started for New York to repol
the loss of the Duchesse to Messrs. Ship
ley & Wright, her owners
When he arrived in the city, howeve
he was too weak to attend to bushes
Immediately, and entering a carr1ag
he told the driver to take him to
. hotel.
(which one, sir?'' asked cabby.
"Any one, I don't care" was the r,
ply of the sailor, who was only CO..
r scious of longing to lie down and res
The driver locked in establishment ar
then seeing that his passenger was il
, he started uptown.
"I'll take him to frst-class plac
anyway, where he'll be taken care of,
, he thought, and drove to one of the bes
uptown hotels.
, Van Anden staggered into tue ofit
and asked for room.
Eyes, SIR" said the clerk, politel
. enough, but ind1fierently. "Please rel
lister your name," and he pushed the b
I book toward him.
Van Anden wrote his name, ar
leaned against the counter, waiting fl
a the clerk to assign him his quarters.
But the clerk stared at him in astol
+ ishment when he read the name.
> care you Charles Van Anden, of ii
steamer Duchesse9" he asked.
a eyes, said our hero, not little su
prised IN his turn.
Fl The clerk summoned the proprietor
the hotel and told him who the late
guest was, and Van Anden was speed
7 installed in the handsomest room in ntl
house, and served with the best of eve
. thing that he could wish.
D And halt dozen cards were sent :.
! his room within half an hour, the nam
on which he did not at once recogniz
: But he was told by the obsequious sc
| uoDf fhof tho Daaann0nra of tho i'll fat,