The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-09-23
Thirteen Hours Of Peril.

| yacht Clarence, picked up young man
sitting in the submerged hull of a cat
boat, who said that his name was Fred w.
Reimann, that he had been in his peril
Gus position over thirteen hours, and
that comrade named George Cornell,
who was with him the evening before
when their boat was capsized, had been
drowned. They took him to New Haven,
and later in the day he returned to his
home, 3S2 East Fourth Street, New
York. To Sun reporter he told yes
! terday the story of his adventure. He is
tall, athletic, fine-looking young fellow,
nineteen years old. The cOmrade who
was lost was a little more than sixteen.
| Reimann said:
ave had been out sailing since last
| Wednesday week, had been up to Hart
ford, Conn, on visit, and at noon on
Saturday last started from Saybrook, at
the mouth of the Connecticut River, on
our return trip to New York. Our boat
was sixteen and one-half feet long, cat
rugged About four o clock in the after
noon, when we were six or seven miles
out from New Haven, the wind fresh
ened a great deal, and q big sea began
to rise. We put double reef in the
sail, and held on, however. BY six
o clock the swell was fully seven feet
| high, and the wind, which was almost
dead from the east, was approXimatng
Il gale AT this time we determined to
stand in to New Haven harbor for
shelter. When within POO yards of
the old lighthouse, on the reef,
we capsized The accident happened
but few moments after the
lighthouse lamp was lighted, as daylight
was deepening into dusk. The only
vessel in sight was a schooner, far away,
beyond the possibility of our hoping for
aid from her We shouted as loud rs
we could, but the sea made such ter
rible roaring that our voices were
drowned by it. When we were cap
sized, our boat lay upon her side, with
the mast and sail flat on the water,
heaving and pitching with the waves,
and we climbed over on the side, put
our feet against the centrebOard. and
held on as best we could. For time
we drifted toward the lighthouse reef.
We had two heavy stone anchors aboard,
one on deck and the other below, when
we went over, and their weight, swing
ING below, kept the boat down so that
she could hardly float got my knife
out, dived down, and cut one of them
loose, so that we rode a little easier. We
had been capsized beforc-in smooth
weather, howevcr-and were not at all
scared, but recognized the situation as
serious and tried to make the best of it.
when he had drifted to within about
$50 feet of the rocky reef, and saw that
we were going past it, we thought we
would swim to shore if we could. As |
was older and stronger than Cornell, |
made n trial first to see if we could live
in the big waves by swimming out to the
end of the mast and back, and, when |
found that | could do it, we started-he
from the bow and from the stern-fOr
shore. We swan about fifteen yards
from the boat, hardly more than one
quarter of the distance to the shore,
| when we got into such violent breakers
that | saw our attempt was hopeless, and
called to Cornell to turn back and make
for the boat. l just waited long enough
| to see him turn and start back, and then
| set out for the boat rs hard as | could.
| barely managed to catch the end of
the mast and hold on when my strength
almost all gave way. went down and
had only sufficient strength to drag my
self up on the boat again. When |
could get my breath shouted for Cor
nell as loudly as / could, but, poor fell
low, never saw him again
Il held on the side of the boat with
my feet on the centre-board for two
hours, with the big rollers sweeping over
me every few moments and nearly
washing me away, when / found that
my strength was 50 far gone that | could
no longer trust myself without lashings,
| Then | made myself fast with piece of
rope that | cut away, to one of the soup
| per holes. There | STAYED for four or
| five hours until about twelve o'clock
Then the mast, from its long and violent
working by the swell, tore itself out of
the deck, and the boat righted, full of
water, of course, and with barely buoy
| ancv enough to float, with me upon it.
about three inches below the surface |
| fixed myself as best | could on the bow
and waited, the big waves still dashing
over my head so frequently as hardly to
! give me breathing spells. In that way
drifted to within half mile of Savin
Rock, when g current or the wind, do
not know which, gave me another direc-
ton, and drifted three miles outside the
lighthouse again. During the night
saw two steamers and tow coming out
of New Hayen, but they were too far of
to lend me any assistance. Toward
morning, about one O'Clock, | guess.
drifted along the shore toward New
York, about five miles away from New
Haven, to a place they call Merwn's
Point, where | was picked up.
"From daylight the wind went down
somewhat, but there was still u very
heavy swell running. During that time,
from daylight until | was rescued, l saw
but one vessel, a schooner, and the per-
sons aboard saw me waving my hands
and q board, but went off on another
track and left me. A long way, out
side, however, they ran within hail of the
yacht Clarence, with fishing party on
board, and told them there was man
overheard somewhere near Merwin's
Point. There were nineteen men on
the yacht, aNd they had been out all
night. The storm had been so bad that
they never dropped line and were
nearly all seasick When they got the
information from the schooner they stood
in looking for me, and finally found me.
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