The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1892-04-23

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that look on my comrades face, and if
his last cay rang il your ears day and
night. CoNardice is upon me like y
curse. It's the blight Of my life, sir"
Such evident shame and grief We're
upon the mans face that I'll who heard
including the captain. were moved 10
some pity OF his state, and 50 much cq3li-
osity had he excited Ia the captains
mind that he was employed for the voy
age.
When the Warrior lIoisted sail IN hour
later she had twcnty-one sonls aboard
The captain CLASSIFIED tA9-g r.fll5: esTsl-4-
teen men. two ladies' a maid and cow
ard.
The Warrior had good winds at the
start Of her voyage. But one night a
wind rose and at daylight there was a
heavy gale. Whitecaps danced wildly
upon the waters Of the sound. The per-
turbation of the sea was becoming fright
full The vessel was driving straight on
to a rocky coast The passengers, pale
with dread of the coming catastrophe,
lashed themselves to the deck or clung
to the rigging. Captain Scuddas shouted
the warning OF the doom Of the Warrior
above the sonnd Of the sea.
Nothing under heaven can change
her course!F
Yet he and bis crew strove neverthe-
less to the last. Every one on board
knew that the vessel was drifting rapid
", that soon she must strike and be
dashed to pieces.
The sea swept her deck aad broke
over her masts. Seven men hung to the
rigging for life They looked ashore
Only $50 yards away stood group of
islanders. as helpless to succor those in
peril as the latter We're to save them
selves.
Now the position of the vessel was
this: Where Sandy point drops beneath
the sea it does no. end. but it is pro-
longed under the water, making thus a
perilous sandbar. Out upon this bar
was the Warrior. The island tide from
the east and from the west meet here.
There is no more terrible place IN Il g&le
than that where two seas collide.
The storm grew. Such was the work
Of wind and sea that times were when
the sandbar from the shore to the vessel
was swept naked. But its nudity was
speedily buried under heavier seas.
Passengers and crew. fatigued with
labor and loss Of sleep, assailed by a
biting wind, at last succumbed to chill
and numbness, and made no more effort.
Then arose one of their number a
tall, gaunt fellow, whom the captain
had called coward in harbor, and he
proceeded to belabor them and to keep
them active, that they might not perish
from the cold.
There's hope yet!'' he cried. Keep
alive. men,
And one after another did he awaken
by rude shaking and warm by his
rough chafngs.
Some caught his spirit, and by the
labors of their weary muscles they set
| their frozen blood in quicker motion.
But what use:' cried one. THE end
must come
"Aye, but there's one chance" shouted
| the coward, who now loolned up large
and resolute. Look. the sea has rolled
back and left the bar uncovered A
man could run ashore on that, maybe.
while the sea held back"
Two men laughed madly.
"Aye. maybe! Look now" said one,
with savage sarcasm.
| The coward looked The sea had
swelled up and hidden the bar far be-
meath its foaming waters.
''Yet one may try cried tire coward.
"Try you Them shouted the other.
Now it is hard to meet death half way.
1t is against mans nature to walk to
destruction. Even though he knows it
be coming he has the hope or the cow
ardice to shrink from it to the last.
Therefore no sailor of them would leap
into that sea or dare the deed suggested
by the coward.
''If succeed, will you follow at the
next fall of the sea-" he asked
What one man can do another can
was the reply.
The coward looked ashore. Sullenly
the waters rolled apart. The sand ban
was naked. The man jumped from the
gunwale and ran.
The people ON the vessel watched him
with waking hope and cessation OF
breath. The hundreds Of islanders on
shore stood silent, thrilled, eager. Nc
word was said; only the sea spoke.
The man ran shoreward, with shoul
ders and head bent forward and eyes
set. The sea rose on both sides of him
The huge waves walled his roadway.
The roadway began to narrow. A
turbulent high sea moved in pursuit OF
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