, 1892-02-25

CAPTAIN scows.
propeller, and tug and scows drifted rap
idly to sea The other tug made desperate
efforts to help but failed, and both her
scows got loose.
Every mar was saved, and several OF
them at the very last minute that rescue
was possible. First the two scows which
had drifted from their mornings were
brought in. The men on them had 'suf
fered but little comparatively" as was
said-that is they had only been half
frozen, exhausted by struggling against
the cold, and their clothing changed to icy
armor by the flying spray freezing on them
OF course it was assumed that the men on
the tug Edwin Webster and her two scows
were beyond hope. But when all hope was
abandoned the good news of their rescue
came from Vineyard Haven, Mass. Let
Captain Clark, of the Webster, tell his
own story;
When we parted the scows went rapid
ly before us out to sea because they yielded
to the wind. From the terrible straining
the tug began to leak. All day we bailed
and pumped and strained our eyes to catch
sight of a steamer. Night came on with
flying snow and a terrible wind. Still we
toiled. Morning came, and the sleet was
like shot in our faces. The tug was like a
mass of ice.
1.-THE second morning the men were like
maniacs. The water rose to the CRATE bars.
Men, said /, we have but one hour longer
to float Wen make it an hour and a
half said one of the men, Selling a bucket
and encouraging the rest. But it was only
for a few minutes. The eyes of the men
stared like those of the dead. There were
sobs and some prayers. Then, away of, ]
saw a light. Jumped on the pilot house
and waved a lantern 1t was the schooner
Everett Webster. The sea was heavy, but
her men got us aboard"
Besides Captain George Clark there were
nine men on the tug, and in a few minutes
after their rescue the Edwin Webster went
to the bottom. Their wives and families
had abandoned hope, and when the Everett
Webster landed them, all fairly restored.
it was as IL they had risen from the dead.
One scow had been recovered, and now all
interest conferred in scow No. 8 and the
two men, Charles Crump and Frank Ca
male, who were in it when it broke from
the Webster. For six days they drifted-
the last three without food and the last
two without water. Again and again were
they drenched and their clothes frozen.
Yet they lived and were picked up by the
British steamer .Ethelburge after drifting
160 miles.
The kidnapping of Ward Waterbury was
an awkward imitation of the Charlie Ross
crime. and his own cousin, Charles F. Wa
terbury, is the chief criminal Charles p.
Waterbury is a well to do farmer living
with his wife and two son on Long Ridge,
which extends from Fairfield county,
Conn, into Westchester county, N. Y.
His eight-yearold son started to school
one morning and disappeared. That night
the cousin arrived with a paper which he
said three men had delivered to him on the
road. 1t was a demand for 5000 ransom,
coupled with a threat of the boys death
signed River Boys" and ending with this
line, Earth is our stopping place, hell is
our home" The second morning there
after the boy was at home again and a day
later the three kidnapers were in prison.
The boy told a curious story. The men
had met him on his way to school, induced
hin to go into the woods with them, kept
him concealed that night, the next day