The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-08-30
A FEARFUL ADVENTURE.
Drifting All Night in a StOrm-Frederick
Remnants Story of His Perils and His
Companions Fate.
New York Herald. 29th.1

A week ago last Wednesday Frederick
W. Reimann, of No. 3S2 east Fourth street,
and George Cornell, Of No. 165 Allen
street, started from the bath-house at IIo-
boken in catboat sixteen feet long on q
pleasure trip to Hartford. Reimann is nine
teen years of age, and his companion, q
student in the New York College, sixteen.
On Saturday last, in the afternoon, they
started on their return. The next morn
ing Reimann was found by fishing party
off Charles Island clinging to his capsized
boat and was picked up. He had been in
the water for eleven hours and was COM
pletely exhausted. lie said that his COM
panion had been lost. lie returned to New
York Sunday night.
A Herald reporter found him yesterday
at his home and heard the story from his
own lips.
"You see" said Remann, ave had
started back, and were within five or six
miles of the old New Haven lighthouse, on
the point outside the harbor, when the
breeze freshened into Il regular gale and
the rollers began to come in about eight
feet high. We took Il reef in the sail and
started to run into the harbor. Just outside
the lighthouse, OIL the reef, Cornell was
steering, while | managed the sheet, for we
didn't dare to fasten it, great big roller
came, and over she went-nOt bottom side
up, but on her beam, the sail lying fiat on
the water. We climbed out on to the cen
tre-bOard, and held on like grim death.
managed to reach under the boat for my
gripsack, and getting my knife ont Of it
cut loose the heavy stone anchor. This
lightencd her, but she wouldn't right, and
we drifted rapidly toward the reefs, the
spray dashing over us. We passed within
200 feet Of the lighthouse, and shouted
ourselves hoarSe, but our voices were
drowned by the waves and the gale.
"There didn't seem to be any chance for
us except to swim for it so | saws TO Cor
nell, Lets try it,; and he says, .All
right We couldn't get our clothes off. so
l swan once around the boat to see how il
went, and then yelled TO him to 20 ahead.
and we struck out for shore. When we
were about fifteen yards from the boat the
swells began to strike us, and knocked the
breath right out OF us. He was about two
yards ahead OF me, and l hallooed, Turn
back
LAsHED TO HIS BOAT.
81 waited just long enough to see that
he did turn back, and then swan as fast
as could TO the boat. Just reached the
end OF the mast, perfectly dead done
couldn't drag myself to the boat. The first
breath got l yelled out: Keep up, nv
boy, only one stroke more!' Then /
crawled back on TO the centre-board. and
wiped the salt water ont OF my eyes-but
never saw him again. So then held on
wo or three hours, and 4 couple of boats |
'issed. l shouted, but no one heard. | /
lrlited to within half mile OF Savin Rock.
nj then the wind and tide took me back
where started from, only much further
ut. About midnight as nearas can Judge,
nc mast came out, and then righted the
Dat and sat in her, full Of water. The waves
ashed over me, and. for fear of being
ashed out, l lashed myself to the fhwar.
ough l remembered poor fellow from
ew Haven who lost his life five wears aoo
doing that and Just about the same
ace. lie had been out all night In row.
at In a terrible storm. and tied the painter
ound his wait; and when finally YES
saw him and threw him rope he forgot !
painter around his waist he was so !!