New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-14
A JERSEY COAST SHIPWRECK.
care May story in The Philadelphia Times.


The Life-saving Station on seven-Me Beach, Cape
May County, is frame house hgh PANIED aln,ed
red and nesting among the saa duhs o,is SLENDER
vivacious Jersey sailor. was the captain "a charge OF
; station for s sn ass es sg on
broad piazza of Robert NJ Snyders Hotel Avalon, rom
on september evening after lighting fresh Fayorita
Captain Holmes thus began his story OF the shipwrecK
In a spirit Of mistaken economy the United states
Government allows the captains of our fesaving sta
crew of seven men, who receive $50 month but must
submit to enforced holiday Of FIVE months without
Mile beach and Mile Beach is as dangerous az
Any along the Atlantic coast and woe be 70 the care
II this beach accurately laid down on his chart
by the % Of So TO be- IN or saS
ion house every night In the year. unless am absent
wit" ssys ons %u ,as
sea, storm suddenly came up about nlgall, almost
m shro0S s hoy trees UNDER Which ons
and warmed us to get under shelter Oh our HUE Gov
on o As0o o the sand s overlooking The and
on from risS what must be vessel in distress
Il was at my wits end to know what 70 do; For
pa SdsH me- my Visit, could pull an oar wen any
man in my crew.. But we could not move te llleooat
Meo ' Inlet to the only house within mile Of
70 pick two Of my men who had boea fishing All DAY
.n soemsS oSrs Soe the
having fortunately found the two men at the upper
waves we're dashing upon the sand hills In front Of
The station higher than little house. We got the
eboat in the surf after 1t overturned twice. bt
Il rghtcd itself and speedily we were pulling for dear
life toward the fast sinking bark the Johanna Lang
road to rescue the endangered crew. 1t took US two
nous against wind and tide to get within Mailing dis
.se from or e very force Of wind and wave our
would have been dashed to pieces The 'ap,an b
Speaking trumpet said his bark had valuable cargo,
he wanted his wife and 81, child saved first and the
doctor savs to nerHe Te e ie tsS
To Eesu close to the sinking bark without striking her
which meant sudden death to US four and death by
before 70 'ne so place we
banded and II TO impossible to keep the lie
sen in ov saS BY the which
lifted boat as Il she had been wooden 10Y close
p he he paeoS Sat the deck like wild man geseuas
with q bclayingpin In one hana, ms trumpet IN tne
other, mouonng the palefaced, frightened crew 10
shouted, we can't fasten TO your bark. Let the
ain an instant q whtc-robed commanding figure.
tall looming up like gantess In the darkness ap.
peared. dressed only in her nishtsown clasping her
snow = shouted the Russian.
casping her child. ten feet away from u.s. and sooner
than can tell this part Of my story they We're both
safely in the Ifeboat, mother ana chld oo'h uncoh
SThen we turned our attention to the captain and
lie and wellnigh dead with fatigue. tremendous
wave struck and overwhelmed the fcboat and picked
I'M the unconscious infant and hurled 1t twenty yards
away - 4. a. 80. x.,,.r,.a
As the bark was In the act Of sinking there was lull
In the and approached near enough TO take In
fhe captain ard all the crew. The brave Russian
Hooked sorrowflly at the body Of his unconscious Wife
rarely beautiful and with delicate completeness and
omparabe neatness OF face and FORM and when he
Jaw fjie babe was missing he clasped his hands as in
PRAYER looked at me appealbgly but SAID never q
word. A.. -, -. ,.,.o, ne
( una death for all of us. Ny men and myself were
rnrnpletey done up with excitement and hard work.
for II was now midnight. ~. -.
THE crew took turns at the oars, ana. after two
hours with the wind in our faces, we made the mourn
~ Tounsend,s Inlet and safe. Then we carried
r. bodr n the unfortunate mother down sevenAlile
Peach N the life saving station.
uMy wife came across from the mainland IN the
7 morning and under her tender care the Russian
woman slowly came 10 life again IL was hcsr'.
breaking 10 sec her reach out ~ TO draw her chd
IN her breast and her first atculate cry as ner loss
iswned on her returning reason: my "od where as
The husband stood beside her the big tears rollnc
ioxn his fawuy cheeks. He leaned over, Kissed ~
Eife and pointed ont OF the window 70 the sea- inIs
vas eDoueh slowly the scenes OF the terribie n'en
sayped on the poor woman. Shc lay mo,nihe DC
tween life and death for three DAYS. no other name
upon her lips but that Of her little sping imam vera
Within week she Was up and about, ana as soon -
she could walk BY early light OF the morning she
vna walking along tho edge Of the surf leaning upon