Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-18

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/ HEROINE.
~ Of Storm and %Shipwreck.
by NJ. f. W.
Iepn a stormy day, and babe
(one Of the worst nights of the
(1east so said the fishermen at
r;llaee on the cape. The
= as f the very fury of Hades
been let loose and the sea
Nd beat upon the buckles,
rocks that turned skyward
Aa the harbor, until it threat
ar them from their very foun-
i hurl them with mighty
nst the village. 1t was q night
Lv men cared to be abroad in,
stern call Of duty brought
\ far out on the cliff that
be southern boundary of Wood
bod a young girl. She was
nAled by q cape and hood, and
[ce, as it showed in the dim
was sipgularly beautiful
one could scarce expect to
uch a town as Cape Newaggen,
that would certainly make a
Eop to take q second look were
the heart of some big city.
ears before Kate Johnscn's
d sailed away in his good ship,
h Witch, taking with him as
ate young Ned Bolton.
Kill be back inside the year,
old sea-dog had said as he
5 pretty daughter goodbye,
bis trip is successful it will be
and Ned can have the ship and
late had blushed and hoped
hight be we'll.
e time had flown and nothing
heard of the Witch until one
E had come to the village news
stern board of a ships boat
picked up in the south seas
the name of water Witch, :"
was all the tidings that had
b heard from the proud ship
ed from the little port that
une morning, so full of life,
bnd hope.
days grew into months, the
into years, and the subject Of
lster was drowned in that of
recent calamities, for not
er passed that did not
that little fishing town news Of
(ore disasters, and sometimes
tes we're sacrificed to the mer-
ep,
(cugh others might forget, there
who never would. Kate John
lila memory of her father and
rt as fresh as when she mad last
in, and there were some among
Ple Of the little hamlet who de.
she was grieving herself tc
bis as it may, she had neve,
hope that some day, in some
pus manner--she never even
think when or how-her father
sweetheart would be restored tc
Fhen the storm beat fiercest an6
pest was at its height, she was
creep out on the lodges neal
(gerous reefs and watch the crue.
lmany were the alarms of danger
given in the little town back by
bor, for this was one of the mos
Pus reefs on the coast o:
tonight, as she stood an(
n the great breaker
ley beat against the gian'
Pie seemed to feel q vague I'm
/, dread that she had never fell
Was it a %premonition of some
Fsome tragedy that was about t.
beneath her very eyes, and she
to lend q helping hand?
long she had stood, silent anc
upon the ledge she never knew
Flddenly she was aroused from
!elle by a dull, sullen boom
tarted as though she had beer
pa putting her hands to her eyes
out into the gloom. How vel
what that sound foreboded.
years ago she had heard a SINH
NO. and the next morning the
Jus strewn with wreckage and tn,
oales of the crew and passenger
OF the mightiest steamers tina
!he deep, had been gathered vi
fishermen for days.
01ient more and the sound wa
a. !, 1t was no trick of the sea
!, hallucination; there was a YES
ne ofilng in deadly peril! VIVA
she DO? To fly and alarm tn
was her first impulse, but sh'
mat the men at the life-savinl
Two miles beyond, had heard til,
una would soon be on the scene
~! they would come too late.
must act at once if she would b.
ass assistance to the imperiled craft
al llghtnlng she could see
eo snip just inside the deadl,,
> a quarter of a mile to TIL
'no east. Gould she reach it
VAS hs a possibility slight hope
nope, nevertheless-that sh'
able to pilot them safely int,
only last summer the coast
eulent service had blasted tn
MA, es al Devils Ledge; but ever
lung but fishing vessels entere,
1ot ny that channel. and they