The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-07-13

1ect that he addressed another word d
me than that question.
Next forenoon, some time about eight
bells. the man was sufficiently recover.
ca TO come aft I stood beside Captain
Huddersield, sextant in hand, while he
talked to him. He said his name wa
James Dickens and that he had been "a
able seaman aboard the bark Prairie
Chief The ship was from London. bound
10 Sydney. South Of the cape they met
with very heavy weather from the north
ward, which hove them to and drove
them south. Il was 90 thick the captain
could not get an observation. In the
middle Of the day, when the smother
upon the sea was 90 thick that the n.y.
ing jibboofn end was ont Of sight from
the wheel q lOud and fearful cry of
Ice night aheadH rang from the fore
castle The wheel was revolved every
spoke with the fury Of despair, by the
helmsman. but the ship time was come.
and there was nothing In seamanship 70
maneuyer her clear Of her fate. She tel
escoped into the ice and went 20 pieces.
"A number of people, said the man,
got upon the Ice. Among them were
the captain, his wife and female pas
senger. Dickens particularly noticed
these people that Is. the commander
and the two women. He and three 9TH
era drifted away in o boat. The bark
went to pieces aloft when she struck.
He was sure that none others, saving
himself and the three men, escaped In
the boats It was in the middle OF the
day when the ship ran into the berg,
and the darkness happened 30 quickly
after the disaster that he was unable 10
tell much Of what followed. Two Of his
companions died while they were adrift,
and their bodies were dropped over
board.
while Dickens told his story |
watched the captain. His features were
knitted into an expression of consterna-
tion, jet he never once interrupted the
man. When the sailor had made an
end OF bis story, Hudderstield said In d
slow, level voice:
"'Was your commander Captain
Smalley?
Yes. sir.
WAS one of the female passengers
Mrs. HuddersReldy
% 'It was her name, sir.
''The captain turned his eyes upon
me and cried, with sudden wild toss
OF his hands that somehow gave an ex-
traordinary pathos TO his words and
looks, She ID my wifel'
- I had hoped. he said, speaking in
short breathings and broken sentences,
TO find her safe at Sydney ON my ar
rival there. She went home last year
ON visit to her mother. Il was ar
ranged that Captain Srnalley, an old
friend, should bring her out. Ten days
ago, ne muttered to himself, ten days
ago He covered his eyes with his
hand, then, looking vacantly at his sex
tant, went to the rail and seemed TO
stare ont TO sea into the south.
81 was about to question Dickens
afresh when the captain rounded upon
us in very hash Of white face and
wild, eager manner.
Try for her in 60l' he cried, look
ing at me Just as though he saw some
one beyond me
He went i'm b sort of run to the
wheel and brought the schooner's head
TO o due southerly course, while he
shouted in tones vibrating with the ex-
that seemed like mania In the
man then, with the workings of his face.
] say he shouted for sail to be trimmed
for the course he had brought the schoon-
er TO, and the seamen fed about the
decks TO my commands, alert and wiIl-
ing, but as astonished as Twas. When
sail had been trimmed, the ecaptain call
ed TO Mr.. Curzon to keep her steady as
she went and requested me to follow
him below.
Do you now guess the meaning Of
that dream which was three times
dreamed by me?'
'.StillI ! was at loss and made no
answers
= Try for her In EOi' he exclaimed
= Come iet'swork ont the latitude, I.
he saias sand we'lI fnd thnt icebergss
aituasioaal Ny hearts mira Oh, he
cried, but softly In d TINE that thrilled
through me, my wife ID dear TO me- 4
pray, / pray, we may not be too latei'
" sIt is as this season, said he, shat
the ice breaks away out Of the south
and comes In fleets Of bergs thickly
crowiing north. There's been heavy
weather. Wen not allow for larger
drift than o league o day. Try for her
in sol That's it That win put the berg
when the Prairie Chief struck il In
about 81.
II thought now ] began TO understand
him.
!" 'You mean 81 degrees Of south lati-
tude?'
OF course do, he answered
II measured the distance due south
from the place where our ship then
was and made 10 few hundred miles
I forget the figure
It's o short rum, said be, looking
aE the chart The boat did IL in 10
days. and that's not above three knots
m hour. : Twas silent Il shall strike
the parallel Of so degrees, he con-
tinued. after pause, then run away
east II Isight nothing, ! shail head