The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-05

gave d reap ana landed IN the BOAT,
which fell into the trough of the sea
and was out of sight for an instant.
The shouts were Silenced instantly and
the dread that the boat was lost came,
but the next wave lifted it and showed
the men still at their oars and making
for the mainmast. They reached the
mast on the cretst of a wave, and a
man dropped into the boat. The boat
was swept on a hundred yards this
time and down it went out of sight a
second time, but 1T rode the water like
gull. The next wave sowed it head
around and the crew straining for a
fourth go at the mast. They made it
with a dozen strokes and were again
on wave crest that carried them with
the speed of an express train by the
rigging, to which two men were still
clinging.. One dropped into the boat
as they went by. With a graceful
sweep the boat turned and made for
the mast. This time fourth man
dropped safely as the others had On
the next trip the fifth and last man
was saved, and the crowd on shore
shouted:
They've got them ALL"
This crowd by this time numbered
nearly a thousand persons. The sink
ing of the boat has been as far out
as Long Branch, and crowds had come
in stages and farm wagons and every
Seabright had come; the Highlands of
Navesink, Galilee, Monmouth. Beach,
north Long Branch, had all furnished
their share, and the newcomers were
more excited and more excitable than
the hotel folks. If the wreck of the
boat could be seen at Long Branch the
shouting of this crowd must have been
heard there
1t was wonderfully inspiring and it
ad fn dar al
to drown the roar of the ocean as the
lifeboat with the rescued mariners
was pulled away from the sunken
schooner. The crowd thought the
boat would land at the spot it started
from, and gathered there and waited
so close to the water that the incom-
ing surf dashed spray over it and
every extra large wave washed up
over shoes and stockings.
Times passes slowly at times like
this and the half hour it took for the
sturdy life-savers to bring their boat
in seemed to lengthen to hours, but
the crowd stood there needless Of
everything and still shouting. At last
the boat was inside the bar. Captain
West instead of heading for the crowd
headed up the shore quarter of
mile and there came scramble that
couldn't be equalled in a picnic at
theatre, men and women actually tum-
bled over each other and walked on
each other for the honor of getting
there first and having hand in haul
ing the boat ashore. The crowd got
to the landing spot before the boat
and as a roller caught the back of
the boat and showed it within fifteen
feet of the beach hundred men DASH
ed into the water, and, Selling it,
dragged 1t in. Soon it was well upon
the beach. Then they seized the
men and lifted them out of the boat
and held them up over their heads and
shouted and yelled and cheered until
they were ready to fall from exhaus-
ton.
1t was fifteen, may be twenty, min
utes before there was sufficient quiet
even to think. General Earle got his
thinker ready first, and he elb0wed his
way through the crowd and invited the
rescued and the rescuers to the Nor
mandie. He had right on the spot with
him three gallons of steaming hot grog,
and he poured it into the exhausted
men.
When the start was made for the no
eel everybody went along, but there was
room only for the guests and the life
savers and the shipwrecked men. All
hat the people thought of was the COM
Tort of the shipwrecked men. They were
headed to the dining room and there at
inc hotel were heaped before them.
The cooks worked now as hard as the
life savers had worked, and things were
piled up until it looked as if the table |
would break down.
Somebody suggested that something /
was needed to wash down the food, and |
The guests began to buy champagne. |
They bought enough to give all the sail
ors bath and there was nearly enough |
eft over to drown all the life saving
crew, but they took it like little men
and between the gulps of wine and the
nouthfuls of food they spun the yarn of
low they came to be wrecked.
Here is the last end of Mate Twif- |
lords yarn:
Eyes, the Cap he told us to go head |
n, an we headed, an he told us to bust |
our hvers at the pumps, an we busted |
out Dustin an ali, the water gained on |
is. When the cap he saw we couldn't |
make the shore an beach her, he says |
Well, 1 guess it's time to pray and 1 |
old him 1 didn't know any prayers. He
said he remembered little one he got |
'ut of an Episcopal hymn book. and he
began to say it, and we all took to the |
'igging. Then she lurched He kept |
light on. She lurched again and then |
The went down, an l says to him: We'll, |
zap, 1T seems like we've struck bottom.
guess You can stop prayin',' all he
;topped. By gum, skipper, this here ci-
Ter are great stuff, amt it?''
And he tipped a glass of champagne
md drank it, as the captain admitted |
hat it was
1t was late before that meal and the
vine were finished and the yarns had
oeen spun dozens of times. General
earle had been busy all the time. He
lad suggested subscription for both
escued and rescuers, and had started
ach with liberal contribution.
BY the time the meal was over he mad
268 for the rescuers and $50 for the
ailors. He presented it to them there
n the dining room, and some of the
men cried. The captain said he and
ONE OF his men wanted to go to New
York and they started on the Z o'clock
rain.
Say said Mate Twifford to General
earle before he left, dye know. by
'um, think that ere hard cider have
,one to my head?"
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