The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-08-04
BRAVE MEN SAVE A LIFE.
Governor Hill Witnesses a Thrillir
Rescua From DroMninp.

Rescue From Drowning.
NoRMANDIE-B Y-THE-SEA On. J.), July
26.-On account of the wet weather Cover
nor Hill was obliged to disappoint the Jersey
soldier boys at Sea Girt and he telegraphed
Governor Albeit to that effect After an hour
spent at the cottage the Governor took an
ocean bath. The surf was extremely high,
and every big cOmber that came rumbling
in brought with it cloud of spray twenty
feet high. Clad in neat blue bathing suit,
Governor Hill and Colonel Judson plunged
into the ocean. They left the beach in about
ten minutes, and Governor Hill remarked
that it was the heaviest surf he had ever
been in.
During the afternoon the guests were adj
vised not TO go into the surf, as 1t was con-
sidered dangerous. A small party of good
swimmers however, donned their bathing
suits and started in. About two hundred
yards above them were about twenty
walters in bathing. Among them were
three women. wives of the bathers. Bath
ing Master Rowland had warned them OF
the dangerous surf, but as the majority of
them were good swimmers they did not
seem to heed ms caution.
Suddenly there was shout and it was
discovered that one of the men had got be-
You'd his depth and was drowning.
Governor Hill was one OF the first tosno-
tice the excitement and he started on run
for the beach. Bathing Master Rowland,
however, who was fully dressed at the time.
snatched coil of rope which was tied to
the door of the clearinghouse and soon out
distanced the other runners. Close behind
him were Manager Pierce and the repre-
Sentatives of the World, who had just put
on their bathing suits. About one hundred
yards out could be seen the heads of two
men. One man was throwing his arms
wildly about him.
The other man was making vain efforts to
hold his drowning friend up, but every
wave tore him from his grasp. Both men
were being carried further and further out
to sea. Without diyesting himself of his
garments Bathing Master Ho Wand quickly
tied the rope around his waist and dashed
into the boiling surf. Manager Hiersch
plunged in after him and the crowd of
bathers, including many of the hotels most
prominent guests, grasped the lifeline.
Rowland struck out over the big breakers.
He was twice thrown back almost to the
shore, but struck out pluckily in the direc-
ton of the drowning man, whose struggles
were now becoming very weak. The brave
companion at his side would no sooner
near the drowning man than huge wave
would throw them many feet apart. The
tide was now sweeping the life line along
the shore and Rowland was compelled to
swim against the furious current. 1t seemed
as If he crept up to the struggling man inch
by inch. and Just as he neared him the fell
The excitement on the shore was intense.
not a word was spoken and every face wore
look of horror
With few swift strokes Rowland
reached the spot and then disappeared be-
low the surface. Many thought he had
been dragged under by the drowning man
and the crowd on the shore surged forward.
In few seconds, which seemed like so
many minutes, Rowland appeared, and in
one hand he grasped the head OF the man.
tha pfh In Gin lad f0 ithaca
shore. who Immediately started on dead
run up the beach with llfe-lines. Governor
Hill was among them. The rescuer and
rescued were pulled over the rollers, but
just as they reached the point where the
cOmbers break huge one tore them apart
and both men disappeared beneath the
surging foam.
Manager Pierce, who had kept near the
men in case help was necessary, saw
struggling form, and, Immediately graSping
it, managed TO haul the body up on the
| beach. Here he found it was Rowland in
stead of the waiter. Rowland managed to
say he was all right, and then the crowd
rushed in and pulled out the waiter. who
had been tossed about on the sand ike
log. He was recognized as Jane; Speed
well, and moment later MeMahon, his
feliUw-w waiter, who had kept his companion
afoat until the arrival Of Rowland, was
dashed ashore also terribly exhausted. Tie
crowd Immediately closed IN around Speed
well, VINO was UNCONSCIOUS, anu d uOLeh
Willipgmen at once set to work rolling him
over a barrel and starting his blood in cir
culation. Had the man been in the water a
minute more he would have been past
human aid His wife knelt beside him and
wept Half an hour later he came to his
senses and was carried to his quarters. He
will recover. but will not get out CT bed for
a week or two.
In the mean time others in the crowd
looked after the brave men who had risked
their lives. Rowland in the rush had tied
| the rope around his waist in slip-noose,
| and tile heavy pulling, together with the
| strength of tide, had so frightened the slip
| knot that he was badly cut about the hips.
| He will be sore for many day. Walter
| Mcmahon, who is twenty years of age, was
simply exhausted and was able 70 be on his
| feet in half an hour. The crowd cheered
| Justify when they found all lives were
saved, and the two brave men received COM
| pliments from Governor Hill and every
other guest in the hotel-N Y World