Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-21
A Thrilling EXnerience.

The Plymouth Rock Excursion-Captain
 John CIancey Thrown Over board-In
 the Water an Hour-Rescued by q
 schooner-The Captains Story.
 The excursion of the steamer Plymouth l Rock on Friday was rather an unfortunate l one in some particulars owing to the crowd | on board being too large for comfort. She l did not reach Twenty third street, New York, 1 until o'clock, and consequently could not | go up the Hudson to Tarrytown and Fort Lee. On the return the passage was very slow one, the steamer not reaching this city until o'clock in the morning. During the trip home Captain John Clancy, soda manu facturer of No. 9s Carlisle street, this city, met with thrilling experience, and but for the timely assistance of Captain Holmes, of the schooner David Nolan of Greenwich, Conn.,, would have been drowned. Captain Clancey's story as told the COURIER reporter is in substance follows CT was sitting on 8 camp stool on the main deck at the for ward gangway with my elbow on the raj, l looking ahead, when I suddenly found my. self lifted up bodily and pitched into the sea. I think this about off Rye, New York, but am not positive ' shouted lustily for help. The steamer kept l on its course and found that I must swim l for my life. I halloed lustily for help and could see the steamer in the distance getting ! farther and farther away from me. I con- | tinued to swim, paddle and float, keeping ! myself above water as best could, and every
 once in a while calling out at the top of my ! voice. Pretty soon heard an answer, and &
 second later heard yawl boat drop into the I water and heard the welcome sound, Where are your Then Unanswered back at the top l of my voice, and this calling for help and ! answering back was continued until I was reached. When the boat from the schooner
 reached me I was nearly gone and could not | have kept above water five minutes longer
 The water was chilly. had on heavy boots
 and heavy clothing, and it is surprising to
 myself how I kept above water SO long. I
 was partially unconscious when taken aboard
 of the schooner, but the captain furnished
 me with dry clothing, gave me stimulants,
 rubbed me down and put me to bed. In the
 morning when I awoke could not for a time
 imagine where 1 was, but the terrible experi-
 ences of the night before soon came back to me and felt that I had escaped the jaws of
 death by hairs breadth"
 Captain, have you any idea who pitched 1 you overheard
 Well will tell you this After we start
 ed found we were short of help and I hire two men connected with the boat to assist me at the bar-one think an Irishman and
 the other Frenchman or Italian. They did ) not suit me and gave one of them shaking up. After they were discharged my sou heard two men, whom he supposes were the ones, say ''We will get the best of the - - before we get to New Haven" He ! thinks these were the men who pitched him l overheard, but does not know their names. The captain further says that he was al
 least three miles from the schooner that picked him up when he was thrown over. I board. The half-drowned passenger was ! taken to Greenwich and the next morning
 took the train for this city, and on reaching
 home surprised his family with the relation of his thrilling experience. Captain Clancy feels very grateful to Captain Holmes and tha crew of the schooner that rescued him iron watery grave, and proposes to pay them {
 visit at early to substantially express his appreciation of their kind acts.