The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-01-15
WE'RE sATnp M ETHER.

From the Boston Gobel
They We're all old sailors, and had
weathered many tough gale, but they
listened with hated breath one day last
week as, seated closely about Captain
Cummings of the Inflated schooner
Alma Cummings, q little group in a
Boston shipping office heard him tell of
his awful experience in the big gale of
February last, which swept to destrue-
ton many a stout craft and caused the
| loss of many hardy sailors.
1--WE We're bound to Boston from the
south with a load of hard pine" he
commenced, land had q big deck load.
The gale struck us butt end first, and
the ssa soon got so high that it made
clean breach over the vessel.
AT length came big chap that
swamped us completely, and there we
were, fairly watellogged. The deck
load was a,mass of ice, and we could
not bulge ii, SO l cut away everything
even the iibboom.
"There We lay, the water freezing
wherever it struck, while we We're abb
solutely unable to help ourselves. We
had but one place Of refuge, and that
"e'' 't4N NNoAN' "1ie0 !"
slesp 10y warmth
Inc mass OF Water peloW .ilre'tsnep
every moment TO burst tue iiooD I'm
unoer our leet' put we couiu ito' iiNV
long in the cold air above. and man
aged to remain below the first night.
eve put q quantity of provisions in
our boat, and dashed her securely in
ease ul ileeo' then we .isu oo'i o'oeiiea -
punulss, ana seculeu t'ieih oii eie w
On lle mousse tosepiler wisli iiloie ~ ~ :
sions.
III ths iiliuuie OIL the sseolio n,s ~ :,
tremendous sea swept Oh ti,e ueoA 20,
forward ana TINS llghtenso .he vesssi
SO thal the water peiow eaiiie iusiiiiis
az,
VIII louu cidsh Tue ifooi nv ~
ana we scrampleu LOT oul "
| craWleu phrougn Wihuuw 70 .ile eeeN
wllile the rest nlaue ioi piie e'pii. s'e I,ss
put tne acy water .iieiictieN 10 ~ ~
shsn ana mice our poots.
our oiiy place ~" Was lle W y
the capln, Where We tsuilelsu noriol 7
uhtll oay4lght came oie niam ltai,.s
We're frozen, ana We We're an nearly
deau' from exposure.
Alter aWhlle olseoVereu tliell fhe
iazarette was coihparatlVe4y Tree iloi ron
water, aiiu W. a. = a"i0u uoN :
Vhrough the ilttle hachWag aiiu ~
upon tiie Wet sans WIFI "iiion
p1ace was ABOUT hall nlleu.
we had no 1000, put II was sFeas
reilet 10 get out OF Inc piercing "lho
Whlch cnliisd the very oioou N our
INelnS, w G H4Q nOL u uIy tag upon us,
ana death seemed only matter VI
| ulile,
Then remembered that IN the CAP
IN had q gun, feYolVer ana some cart
ridges. IL was posslpie 70 gsl ilfe
with THESE II we had anythllg 70 pnril.
with our knives we whlttled away tne
wet surface OF the Geek Deans ABOVE
/ our heads, ana lnade some sIaVlngs u
| the wood beneath, An empty pains
pot was scrapea cteaT 'lor stpVe, anu anu
extracted some powder from the cart
aadges ana began operations.
i "Cartrldge AFTER carthage was ussa
| UP, plrt the shavlngs Wonid not Durn-
Al last remembered that IN the Iheol-
cine chest was a nttle pottie OF sulphu-
rlc ethef, 'Whlcn hAu ussa Iol tne
headache. On the bottle II sald tne II
4 qrid was h1ghly explosive, ana dstef-
mined 70 MAKE announcer attempt 70 get
a nre.
got one TINS time, hnt Inc moment
II fired into the pot a stream OF name
shot up Which nearly phndeu me. W
we're Just congratulating ourselves
upon the change In temperature When
a Dig sea broke over the Vessei, ana nos
only extinguished our IRE, put wet us
all to the skin again, and haf drowned
us.
1T seemed as X our last nope was
gone, but men fight hard Tor life. Al
ter the wafer had soaked away hao
the mate rig a canvas TO prevent SIM
4 liar occurrence, ana with what was
4 left OF the precious ether made anoth-
er ire.
I'VE once more began 70 ger warm
but, In our eagerness, we mate such 9
blaze that the flames shot up TO tht
hatchway, and the air became SO no
that We were suffocating. we eouia
not get out of the hatch, with the
flames pouring up, SO we were FORCED Z
scoop up water IN our hands and pu
the fire out.
"There was no more ether, ana th'
cartridges We're about gone, put fount
that little space on my shirt was dry
and we set to work to make some TIN
der. The last cartridge ieft Htti'
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