The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-03-13
ENTOMBED IN A WRECK.
Thrilling Experience of a St. Law
renee Fisherman.

renee Fisherman.
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Mr.. B. +. Peterlee. keeper of the
Wry Head Light, relates the following
remarkable personal experience wbj1p
on q fishing yovare to the Grand Ranks
OF Newfoundland eirht wears since.
MY father and nv grandfather
were both Methodist ministers, and
when l Was a boy | used quite fire.
quently to hear them read from the
Scriptures the story of Jonah, In those
DAYS. however, the account made NO
very great impression on my mind. hut
lnOw read il with = ucru1iqr in+.rpst
and sympathy. for | sometimes think
there is not probably 4 ljyinr man
whose experience So closely rn,embIos
the ancient propIpr,'~ As my own.
Like many another Cane Ann how.
my first ryrprirarr of life WAS rs a
fisherman, | Wrntt to the Bay as we
used to tenn the GnIf Of St. Lawrence,
when | was fourteen wears old. ship
ping On the schooner Secret upon half
lines, Is was then the phrase. mraninp
that ! had half the cod, Lalibut or
mackcrel which | could catch, the other
half going to the owners Of the vessel.
For five years | was out on this .lay'
every season and made fair WAGES.
The last year | Was on the schooner
E'hln W@ Hro}I, Skipper Groom.
There was a crew of eleven. including
the captain and cook, 4 mulatto named
DcSaye. On the night of the 2Sth of
August (this being our second trip that
summ"r), We We're run down by some
large vessel, a steamer, l Judged by the
sound, and every soul on board
drowned a V myself.
1.-The schooner was lying at anchor.
with lights up as usual. had turned
in that night shortly after eleven
0 rlock; there was then no fog, but a
mist may have risen later. As If often
did. From a sound nap | was Weakened
suddenly by a loud shout Of Ship ahov.'
and a CHATTER of feet on deck. At the
SAM instant | was aware of a rushing.
roaring noise, and a deep sound like the
turning Of a prOpcller's screws. There
were shouts, TOO, at a little distance.
Captain Groom and two sailors-Cates
and Smith by name, who were in the
cabin, but less soundly asleep, perhaps,
then Jumped out of their berths,
and rushed up the ladder. But before |
could follow their example, | felt the
swash of a large wave against the
schooner, followed the same instant by
4 horrible crash against our ~broadsIdc,
Il was thrown headlone. The
fell off its peg, and went out.
bunk-boards, b~ed-clothes and boxes
about me and upon me. Then
another terrible shock, accom-
by a surging noise, and | could
'ecl-horriblc sensation.-tha our little
,essel was being borne down and
'areening over! There was a ponder
'us, grating, crunching noise overhead, }
mingled with terrified shouts and cries. y
hen the water rushed into the cabin. !
renching me in a moment. / rose, !
alf-swimming in it, amidst the boxes. '
cards and clothes, For some mo- {
the same heavy, grinding noise /
ontinued overhead. 1t was the keel +
f the large vessel passing over us c
rushing rs down! / even heard the
crashing Of her huge screw. We were e
t that moment twenty feet under b
'ater, thrust bodily down by the sheer t
and momentum of the steamer, t.
nd that, too, before our little craft n
I'd lad time TO fill or sink; for the in b
ant the steamers keel passed off her, Il
felt the schooner give a mighty lurch, "
hich pitched me headlong again; and y