Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-05-27
A WAIF FROM THE SEA.
THk FAM PsIzE THaT a EhENCH
FISHING VESSEL CAPTURED.
Miss Journeaux Tells the story OF How She
Went out For An Evening Row and
stepped Ashore $500 Miles From
Home - Affecting Details

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Atlantic and its surroundings of romance |
have excited the attention of the two worlds |
Miss Journeaux, of st Heller, Island OF Jer- |
sey, with her companions on sunday even |
ing in the middle of April went for row in |
two small skitis Her own gallant took her |
further than the otl er boat would go. Then,
losing his oars, he swan after them mean |
while the boat had dritted beyond his reach |
and he swan on shore. There his story con- |
WINGED the authorities and friends of the lady |
that he murdered her and he was cast into |
prison. In his cell he lay for nearly month
when the Joyous news was flashed under the
ocean that the missing lady, picked up 10y
fishing schooner, was landed on the shores of
Newtound land i'll the best of health. He was
at once released and is now eagerly waiting
her return. Meanwhile the lady, soiourning
in Newfoundland awaiting an opportunity to
obtain her passage home, was interviewed.
Her narrative Is as follows:
"On Sunday, April Is lS>6, al fifteen min
utes past eight p. m, after church, | LETT
Victoria pier, St Heliers, with nay cousin,
Julia wiltshire Jules Farue and another
young man for a row, as far as the end of the
pier, about quarter of "A mile Oft. The moon
was bright the water smooth, and we ex-
pected to be back almost directly. When We
reached the pier head | wished Jules Farne,
who was my sole companion, the other two
having taken a second bOat, to turn bach, but
he said, 'Oh, no, We'll go on little further
He kept going on rowing, until we had got
past Elizabeth castle, about a mile from our
starting place. and then he turned back.
THE OARS LOST.
awe had returned to point between the
two pier heads-Nictoria and Albert-when
Jules lost an oar. In order to recover it he
turned the hOat with the other oar. and i'll
doing so that one also slipped from his hand.
At this time the tide was running out very
f,a. md ba
the boat and l lost sight of them. Jules then
jumped out of the boat to swim after them,
telling me he was good swimmer. in the
course of minute or so he got into the boat
again, nearly turning her over in doing 50,
| as he got IN at the side Then taking OFT his
| hat and coat which he deposited in the boat,
he Jumped into the again. At this time
we were outside the pier heads, but | cannot
| say how far, as was excited at the time and
am not good judge OF distances. The boat,
| which was a twO-oared pleasure skitf, was
| then right in the stream and going out to sea
| at a great pace. | could not see the oars
| when my companion jumped into the water
| the second time, nor did / ever them
| again. He jumped from the side of the boat
| and struck out sstern toward the piers to gel
| the oars. The boat being deeper IN the water
he considered that they must have been le1
| some distance behind.
.'The boat evidently gained in speed ; and
| in the short space of one or two minutes |
| nau IOst slSnl Oh lnt swimmer. AlttT ne nal
been gone some five or ten minutes l heard
| his cry in French for help. The voice was
| evidently q good way Ott. / could then lust
| sec the pier heads as "A speCk. After the trst
minute or two from his leaving the boat |
| never caught sight of Farne again, although
ii remained very bright until long after had
heard his cry for help. 1t came two or tn rec
times and then ceased. When | heard his
first cry l was greatly alarmed, and cried
for bel p myself, shrleklng out until became
quite iatigued.
| NIGHT OF HORROR.
"All that night remained awake, expect.
ing every minute TO see some boat or steamer
| coming in search of me. In order to guide
searChers to where ! was kept on screeChing
! for help as well as | could at intervals all
through the night, but from the time when
Farne jumped into the water, which think
was about half past nine O'Clock, never 81 y
and, with the exception OF his cries for help
heard anybody. About midnight it grew
cloudy and got rather dark. out / could still
have seen any object as large as a boat on the
water II il had come within "A fair distance Oi
me. In the course of All hour or so after the
gathing of the clouds ii began to rain hcaviiy V,
and continued raining until about daylight
| | had a small umbrella in the boat with me,
| which l held over me through the night, but
| it was not of much service and l was quickly
| wet through.
| Some time early in the morning of Mon
| day j found the boat had So considerable a
| quantity Oh water IN IL tlldI my teet were
covered by It,and ! hdiled ii out with Farne :
hat, which was of hard felt and this | did
| at intervals until ! WAS rescued. ! was in
| great fear that the boat would be capsized by
| Farne while he was getting into II, thou gh
| he apparently had TO extraordinary difficulty
| in doing So, but no water came in at that
| time. The weather on Monday was fine again
! and the sea continued smooth, but ! could
| see nothing but rocks ali around me. Jersey
| is surrounded with sunken and other rocks.
L N m " | ~
| many OF the former, which would have
| proved fatal if there mad been any sea on.
| But, by Gods good providence the water
| kept smooth until the end.
| STEAMER PASSES OUT OF SIGHT.
About halfpast seven or eight o'clock on
Monday morning saw steamer, which !
took to be a Southampton boat returning
from Jersey, but she was long way Oft and
| going in opposite direction to me. AL
| through that day l expected to see somebody
| coming after me, but night set in without
| any one appearing. The Southampton boat
| was the only vessel | saw that day
| On Monday night there were few showers
| OF rain the weather of the day had not been
! warm enough to dry my clothes, and they
. remained very wet until the time i was
taken from the boat l did not sleep on
4 Monday, but during that night ] dozed oil
| occasionally, despite my efforts to KEEP
| awake. BY the time ii was dark | had
| quite given up all hope of being saved and
prepared myself for leaving this world.
Early on Tuesday morning l sawa sail
| coming toward me as if from France, but at
| that time there was no wind to speak OF
| where ! WAS nor had there been any from
| the time OF my being left alone except on one
| or two OCCASIONS, when there was light
breeze, which sent little spray now and
| then over the boat from the lop, but it did
| not Inconvenience me. The sail came on
| gradually but slowly and my courage began
to revive At length it was, az had hoped,