The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-11-02
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den while waiting for . boat to be low
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"You may even ask passengers to
keep cool when O vessel is foundering at
sea, !" replied another commander. "I
have seen some curious things in my
seafaring life, and have learned that q
vessel given mp for lost will sometimes
rally as wonderfully - c msn given up
10 die by his Doctors Ten years ago ]
went ssfely into Chicago on q vessel
which the Captain gave up for lost 150
miles away. i have seen cases where
steamers rudder has been carried away.
ono Of her wheels disabled and most Of
her lower deck cargo washed out, and
yet Just when al hope was abandoned
the gale fell or q change Of wind gave
her shaiter. have been on q schooner
with both masts and bowsprit gone,
rudder gone, bulwarks gone, six feet Of
water In the hold and gale blowing
fifty miles an hour, and yet here I am
to-day. No living soul came ashore
from the Aipena, and yet know. exactly
how everything happened. The gale
was brewing when the Alpena LETT port.
Afar over on the other shore It was wall
ing and circling and gathering strength.
The night wore on and thesteamer kept
her course, but almost as suddenly as
the blow Of . hammer that hurricane
struck her. I was out myself that night
on one Of the largest propellers on the
lakes, and we GOT o hurricane blowing
ut the rate of seventy miles an hour and
seas running twenty feet high right to-
eether. We ran straight into it for an
hour, or at least kept head on, but at
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fee, and men who had sailed the lakes
thirty years were pale for the first time.
Reused from sleep by the shrieks Of
the gale and pitched about the heavy
seas which threw spray into the mouths
Of the smoke-stacks, the passengers
gathered in the cabin. There were white
faces, ashen lips and wringing of hands,
and now and then . woman walled out
as lurch of the vessel caused the fog
| bell to send It's dismal notes out upon
the midnight sea. ..Ias
al knew men who were on that craft
that night who would be brave in the
face of death. They cheered each other
as the gale increased and at every lull
they raised fresh hopes that the worst
had passed. Long and bitter was the
struggle, but the Alpena was doomed,
The seas must have rolled through her
upper cabins from end to end. Piece
by piece she was wrenched apart, and
when there was no longer any hope mer
and women made ready for the awful
moment. tf
ado you remember that the wave:
cast several dead bodies ashore which
were supported by life-preseryersP Per
haps every passenger had made ready
i in this manner when the boat was over.
whelmed, but the chill air and colder
water were fresh enemies. The strong
est man was chilled to death in two
hours. Had it been midsummer scort
of passengers would have lived unit
picked up or cast on shore. In this cas-
passengers had no chance left. Ths
gale, the sea, the chilly air and water
were against them, and not a soul es
capped. Take the same gale in August
with brave, COOL men to cheer and di
rect, and even women and childreI
might have been saved. Detroit Ere,
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