The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-02-16
ONLY TWO WE'RE SAVED
Their Companions Could Not Endare the
Terrible Exposure.

Terrible Exposure.
Two men who chung Tor forty hours e
the rigging OF their vessel off Fire ISLAND
beach were rescued at midnight by ths
crew OF the Lone Kill llfe-savlng station
The vessel proved TO be the schooner
Louis V. Place, Capt. Squlres, ceal-laden
from Baltimore to Now York. She left
Baltimore January 90 and was wrecked
during the height OF the gale. Nine
men took to the rigging when the
vessel went down, an eighth Of mile
off the shore and there. they chung, in
the raging blizzard with the spray freez-
ing as IL dashed over them, until one by
one seven of them slipped into the sea,
or hung lfeiess, bound TO the rigging by
a rope. Two only were able to endure
the terrible exposure. They are 5. j.
Nelson, whose home is In Providence,
r. l.. and VIM. Stevens. German, of
Rockland, Me- The rescued men are
badly frost bitten and it Is thought that
Nelson will lose both feet
The glory Of their rescue is attributed
TO the brave life-savers, who have the
past two days been making almost super
human efforts TO reach the wrecked
schooner. 1t was on Tuesday last that
the Place ran into the gale aud IL was
found that she was leaking badly The
coast of, Long island was then dead
ahead and after careful preparations the
vessel was allowed to d,ift straight at
the beach. Half an hour later she
touched her nose on the outer bank and
Il heavy wave lifted her high on the
sand bar. AS she settled on her side the
waves broke furiousiy over her and
chilled TO the bone the men who had
sought safety in the ropes. The life
savers sent out life lines, but not before
the seamen were almost frozen to death
and so stiff as 10 be unable to gel
TO them. They tried countless times
TO launch their poat, but OH each Oc-
casion the breakers drove it back with
renewed force to the shore,
Each hour of the day the same efforts
were made, while those on shore could
see, hour by hour, that their aid was OF
decreasing value. One OF the men in the
rigging gave way To the exposure and
when az midnight the life savers, under
command of Cap Baker. pushed their
boat into the surf and pulled like mad
to the wreck their were but two lives re-
naming OF the nine. During all that
time the men in the ropes had not tasted
food nor drink. Just a spark Of life
seemed TO remain and although the two
were able TO drop from the rigging into
the lileboat they were almost insensiblc.
One of them presented terrible appear
ance, His face. hands and feet were
frozen. He was uGable TO speak for
several hours. This was Nelson. His
legs were encased IN a pair oi long boots
and the water in them had frozea into a
solid cake.
Stevens had been more fortunate. He
had slipped his boots of and had wrapped
his feet in huge piece OF canvas. IL
was through his efforts that the other
survivor had been kept alive. Each
time that Nelson's head sank upon his
breast during the binding storm.
Stevens would reach over and pound him
into sensibility again. The latter was
able soon after his rescue 10 tell the story
of the wreck and the terrible experiences
OF the two men.