Morning journal and courier., 1891-07-28
A DAMP NIGHT ron MIR. DALE

4 DAMP NIGHT FOR MIR. DALEY.
The Party Rescued After Floating
Around All Night-Nothing More
Serious Than a Cold the Result
Stories of the Rescued.
As was the opinion of the COURIER yes
terday would probably be the case, Mr..
Hugh Daley and his two companions
reached shore in safety. They were res
cued yesterday morning at about o'clock.
There was great deal more said of the
affair in some Of the papers than was real
ly called fol-, AS at no time were they in very
great or imminent peril. They passed a
very unpleasant and anxious night, ex-
posed to the wind and waves, but a cold is
the most serious result that any of them
experienced from the adventure.
To recount little: Early Sunday morn
ing party left Austin's boat house on the
catamaran Typhoon for sail to the Thin
BILE Islands.
The party consisted of City Attorney
Hugh Daley, his sister, Miss Emma Daley,
Clarence P. Beebe, Rufus S. Shepard, Miss
Mabel Dow and Mrs. James A. Austin, wife
of the owner of the boat. The sail to the
Thimbles was an exceptionally fine one,
but just before landing at Pot Island the
wind had come up afresh, stirring up the
sea into quite turmoil and frightening
Mrs. Austin and Miss Emma Daley The
party landed all right, and after dinner it
was the intention of the party to sail back.
When the time arrived for starting the
weather was SO heavy upon the water that
Miss Daley and Mrs. Austin, in view of
their previous fright, decided they would
not risk the sail back, but would return on
the Margaret.
The party in the catamaran were all
right until off Branford Point, where one
of the bulls began to leak badly. Mr.
George Austin put off in the small boat
with his cousin, Miss Doll, and reached
Pawson park in safety. The steamer Mar
garet put back in search of the rest of the
party, but although she sailed all around
them her machinery made so much noise
that their calls could not be heard. Mr..
Austin and his son put out in sail boat
from this city and about daylight found
the party near the Cow and Calf rocks.
They were taken off, and came home on
the Double Beach stage A tug brought
back the catamaran. Mr.. Daley said yes
terday forenoon that he had to
come back in order to outlive
his obituary, which had been
published in one of the papers. He says
he is through with pleasure sailing on
Sunday. Mr.. Daley was very glad to get
back safely, but modestly said he did not
seem to think he had had much of an ex-
perience. 1t was one, however, he would
not want to take again, for had storm
come up the party would very likely have
persisted.
Mr.. Rufus S. Shepard of 1875 Wooster
street in telling his experiences seemed to
believe that the whole party was in more
danger than Mr.. Daley would admit His
hands were raw and sore from holding on
all night long and he seemed to be very
thankful that it ended as we'll as it did
In conversation he said: sI thought
that we were surely gone for, and never
expected to see land again. At one time,
while Mr.. Daley, Mr.. Beebe and myself
we're clinging to the overturned boat, a
great wave nearly swept me away, but Mr..
Daley caught hold of me and kept me on
| the catamaran. We were about four miles
out beyond the Branford beacon when the
plug slipped out from one of the boats and
she filed with water and went down.
George Austin and Miss Dow took the
rowboat and started for the shore, while
we got astride of the boat which remained
afoat and held on as best we could. The
other boat was away down in the water
and the sail, which we thought would
keep us ahoat, sank down too and dragged
the remaining boat down somewhat
There we were, and in that predicament
we drifted around from 7 o'clock in the
evening until half past o'clock in the
morning.
ri expected all the time that the re-
| naming boat would sink and that We al
~x,1I l,o1 E.
| ward end of the boat was an opening
the '' action t mo Of "'u'd the aen0 wal water us
That was what happened on the Other
boat and I was afraid the same thing
would occur on the floating boat.
crawled out to the end, twenty feet away
where the boat was under water, and saw
| that the plug was secure, and during the
night kept watch on it and time and
again crawled out on the boat and exam
ined it to find if it still held.
| "Mr. Daley sat in the middle, Mr.. Beebe
on one side and on the other, astride the
capsized boat. Between us we had two
life-preseryers, but we did not put them
| on. We thought that they would be ir
our way if we had them on, but we KEEP
tight hold of them so that they would b.
near at hand should we need them. Wher
I was nearly washed away, I had one Of
them under my arm, but could never have
saved my life if had been swept away
It would have been all up with any one OF
us who left the catamaran
"And it was hard night, too. From {
o'clock until 10 the waves were high, blown
up as they were by southwest wind. Al
that time the wind came from the north
and the water was choppy and not as Sc
we're as before. 1t seemed an age waiting
for daylight. I, for one, do not ever wan
to repeat the experience.
| "We drifted aground near the Cow anG
| Calf and were rescued from there in thu
| morning. 1t was tantalizing to see the
| Margaret go all around US and then leave
| us, and we feared that our last chance wa.
| gone"