Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-08
RESCUED rRoNt THE SURE.
An Exciting Scene at Atlantic City
Eight Forms on the Beach.

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Aug. 5.-The
most sensational rescue ever made in
Atlantic City occurred to-day during the
bathing hour, about l. O'Clock. The
Misses Hauce, three daughters of r. A.
Hance, the manufacturing chemist, OF
Philadelphia, who has a cottage here on
Rhode Island avenue, were in bathing
with some friends al the foot OF Massa-
chusetts avenue, near the site OF the IRON
pier. BENZ eNper enced swimmers, they
Ventured out into deep water and We're
carried furtler ont hY the tide Whlch IL
somewhat tTeacE4r0us at thls point
on account OF the inlet current. >. T..
Hoffman. OF WILMINGTON, Del, see
Ing their helpless condition, went TO their
rescue and did all he could TO keep
them ah0at. A. A. Moore, OF the PhUnlX
Bridge Company, and W. c.. sherman, one
OF the suh-cOntract0rs, were standing on
the pier talking when Mr. Moore saw the
young ladies' struggling ia the water.
He at once pulled of his coat, threw a
heavy plank Into the water and ipated II
10 he STRUGGLING ladies and assisted MT.
Hoffman in placing the drowning persons
upon the plank. but he found the task so
arduous that he became exhausted. Mr..
Holman had already sank and was
drowning, when MIR. MOore's son come to
his rescue, aud before be had taken him
ashore was relieved by another gentle
man. He returned and found his father
In . sinking condition and mad much diff
Guilty I'm brin glng him To- the beach.
The yugn ladies' in the meanwhile were
clingng % iae plank. Those ON the beach
bad become frantic. and adolen OF planks
were fioated % them, but on account OF
tine rOughness Of tae aurt 10 was with ali
ficllty that they were directed 10 the spos.
y a ma a
10 he brought ashore. A rope was secured
and Charles rindall carried 10 out to the
struggling ladies', who rad lost all con-
seriousness aud were floating on the waves.
James Kelley, OF the crew OF Rutier
Brothers, ran a hail mile along the beach
and plunged at once into the waves. lie
gathered the three drowning ladies' and
placed them on several planks OF which
be formed an impromptu raft. Mr.. Tin
dali tied the rope around the pianks and
several hundred willing hands laid hold
of the rope and pulled in the raft with Its
almost iteless freight. A shout OF Joy
arose from the thousand that aad gathered
on the beach, and the girls, all bleed
Ing at l5e nose ana mouth, were laid on
the beach. Two unknown ladies' who
We're IN the water at the time became
frightened by the shrieks OF those on
Shore tainted in the water, and were fast
being carried out by the tide when
rescued by Charles TndalI and another
gentleman. James Leroy, who attempted
TO swim out to the Hance sisters when in
their most peril0us cOnd ton, became
exhausted and sank into the water and
was rescued with much difficulty. The
Misses Hance are now lying in precari-
Gus condition at their fathers cottage. A.
4 Moore is lying in dehrious condition
and suffering with nervous prOstratiOn.
fsf Ia q
by the excitement was that this, the most
dangerous part of the beach, is entirely
unprotected, there being no ile-preseryers
or lines.