The Press., 1894-08-30
I'd, where he staid till the bit

royal yard, where he sta1d till the bit ter cold drove him down.
 sAnd now comes the amazing part of this tale. I went on deck at midnight to take charge of the schooner. On walking to the side, as my custom was, and gazing steadily ahead-a corner of r1oon at this time hung ill the sky over the port quarter-I beheld dim faint ness right ahead, a delicate gleam like some mysterious reflection of light ill a looking glass ill darkened room. A man came along from the forecastle and sung out in quiet voice that there was ice ahead. I bade him rout out Dickens It was his watch below, but whenever ice was reported we had him up and stationed him on the forecas tie to keep lookout as the one and only man ill the vessel who would know the berg we were ill search of. l then ran to the companion hatch and called to the captain, who was lying upon a locker below, and he immediately ar rived.
 ''The wind was scanty and our speed through the water scarcely four knots, but hardly had day broken-the ice is lbIlu DoluS GuCu dDOuU LIlIc tllSUstAC- when Dickens, who had remained on the forecastle throughout the dark hours, shrieked out:
 " The iceberg, sirp
 ''It was fine morning, the sea quiet, the wind nipping air out of the south west The sun shone full upon the ice berg and flashed it into a great moon white floating heap, scared with ravines and gorges. The swell rushed ill thun- der into deep caverns. 1 saw many gothic archways, with birds flying in them The mass was like city of ala baster, the home of sea spirits, of ocean fowl of mighty pinion. The surf boiled in thunder on the windward points. observed a shelf of the dead white crys tai sloping very gently like beach into the wash of the water, and while I was gazing at it the captain, who was work ing away at the berg with a telescope, cried out fiercely. Then, growing mar ticulate, he put the glass into my hand, gaping at the ice and pointing to it.
 ''I leveled the glass and immediately distinguished structure, cOntrived, as I presently saw, of the galley of a ship and quantity of wreckage. It stood in great split ill the ice within musket shot of the beach, and while I looked smoke rose from it.
 ' There is life therep I cried out. ."We hauled i'll, and then with the naked eye clearly perceived several fig ures making signs to us. When we were as close as prudence permitted, the long boat was got over, and the captain and five men, one of them being Dickens, pulled away toward the berg. I stood off to improve my offing, and being full of the business of the schooner had lit tie opportunity to remark what passed on the ice island.
 By and by the boat returned. She looked to be full of people, When she was alongside, saw two women in her. One was locked i'll the arms of Captain Hudderstield. He had wrapped her ill his coat and held her to his heart. Both women were lifted over the side. Three of the men were also handed up. The others managed to crawl on deck unaided. There were seven men and two women. They after ward told us that 15 in all had gained the ice
 ''The wife of the captain of the Prairie Chief-he was among those who had perished--died before our arrival in Sydney. Mrs. Huddersfeld, strong CT woman, quickly recovered, and was walking the deck ill the sun leaning on her husbands arm within week of her rescue w. Clark Russell in Strand Magazine.