The evening times., 1896-10-19
SAVED HER FATHERS. LIFE
Fisherman's Daughter Braved
an Angry Sea.
In THE TEETH OF A GALE
To Secure His Lobster Pots the Old
Man and His Sons Had Gone Out in
Boat, Which Was Blown Away.
Then the Girl Sailed Across the
Bay and Brought Assistance.

Saybrook, Conn, Oct I9.-In the howl
ing northeaster that swept over Long
island Sound ON Monday, Maggie Daniels
or Oatfield Point, some six miles to the
eastward of this village, performed an act
of splendid eroism.
! Maggie, her two brothers, and her father
Sam Daniels. live in a tumble-dow house M
The extremity of the Point. The whole
family make their living by fishing. clam.
ming and lobstering.
When the storm came I'D on Sunday
twenty lobster pots belonging to the Dan.
ieis were on ledge of rocks mile off the
Point When Mr.. Daniels looked out ana
| sa" the heavy sea pounding in the Sound,
| he called his two boys, and told them that
ne was going 10 make an attempt to save
mis- lobster traps. They represented 10 him
almost MS entire capital. when the eb5
tide Makes" he said, "thosc pots will
surely be swept out through the Race,
SAW HER FATHERS PERIL.
With the assistance OF his boys, he
iaunched their surf boat There was n
tremendous sea running, and h alf the
Time the little craft was hidden by the
crested rollers from the anxious eyes of
Maggie, who watched from the shore. They
reached the first line OF traps, and began
hauling them into the boat. ......... &C.,,
Suddenly through her glass Maggie saw
an enormous wave lift up and wbirl the
boat broadside to the sea, and at the same.
time twist an oar out OF one OF her
brother's bands. She quickly realized tile
perilous position OF the occupants of the
little craft.
In the little creek near the house fay her
fathers sharpie, boat too heavy to row
She knew she could run out to the drifting
boat under sail, but they e.. could never
beat back in the teeth OF the raging gale
six miles away was the mouth OF the
Connecticut, where she knew several tug
boats were lying. If she could get word
to one of them the chances were that
the boat containing her father and brothers
Gould be picked up before it struck the
breakers ON Fishers Island. as....t.'.-' 70
Miss Daniels Is an excellent sailor. She
ran the boat out OF the creek. hoisted the
sail, and headed for the Connecticut 1t
was one long, close-hauled tack, and it
required all her skill and Judgment to
keep the boat up close to the wind. Half
Of the distance was across an open bay,
where the wind had free sweep and where
tariiy Threatened To swamp the sharpie
REACHED THE LIGHT HOUSE.
Several times, as the boat careened, the
water came fcanIing over the sides, and
when at last, tired and exhausted, the
girl rounded the boat to under the lee of
the lighthouse on the outer breakw ater
the cockpit was half full Of seawater The
girl was drenched, and had Just strength
enough to drag herself up the iron LADDER
that leads to the lighthouse keepers quar-
ters.
Keeper skipworth had seen her Sine told
and, after calling his wife and carrying
Maggie inside, the keeper Jumped into the
boat and rowed ashore, through the COM
parGtGvely smooth water on the lee of the
breakwater. The tug Marian was at the
steamboat wharf, withsteanI up, and as soon
as Capt. Mercer heard Keeper Skipworth's
story, he at once east off his lines and the
boat went blowing out into the sound
The captain crowded on all steam, and,
after an hours run, picked UP the boat con-
tanning the Daniels within Il half mile OF
the Fishers Island shore. Miss Daniels
was taken to her home the next morning,
and has not been able to leave her bed vet.
Her right arm is strained from her ire
mendous exertions at the tiller, in holding
the heavy boat on its course. Old pilots say
that not all the money of the local bank
could have tempted them to have made the
trip that Maggie Daniels did.