The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-28

board, crawled forward. was watching
them from the bridge, and / saw an I'M
usually large wave rising ahead-a wall of
ghttering green water curling over into
foam at the summit. The captain waved
his hand to the men and they grasped the
rails. Next moment the bows disappeared
deep in the sea, and when the steamer
slowly lifted a streaming forecastle out
of the ocean only one remained clinging
halt-drowned to the rails; while as the
vessel rolled heavily down and the sea
poured out, saw his companion clutch at
the bulwarks, miss them and disappear
beyond all hope of rescue in a smother of
foam.
The other poor fellow lay washing about
the deck beneath with broken ribs; and,
as three or four seamen crept forward to
go to his aid, Mack came up with a long
face to say that more of the tubes in the
port boiler had burst, and that the water
was pouring out under the CRATES from a
leak in the back end. He said:
II haze scaulded bath hands an feet try
ing tae pit in the patent shoppers, but
there's that much steam an hot water fly
in round it Gamma be done"
There was a brief consultation, and 1t
was decided to draw the fires in one boiler
while the firemen did their best to raise
enough steam from the remaining one to
keep the ship head to sea.
Mind Mack, if she falls off in this sea
it's all up. Be quick" said the captain, to
which the chief answered briefly:
L hae been in a hot furnace afore, an
/ can gang again-there'l be no time lost"
So the rest of the day and all night we
lay to, every man at his post, while, with
ventilators torn up, hatch covers ripped
off, and water gurgling about deep in the
holds, the Corona swung to the heavy At
lantic sea in imminent peril
Next morning a steady clang and clat-
ter tloated up through the stoke-hold graf
| ings, and fireman, wiping the sweat from
his sooty face, came up to say that the
chief wanted me below TO see how repairs
were done at sea. The chief engineer
looked gaunter and grimmer than ever,
| was swathing himself in sacks opposite
the front of the port boiler, which, al
though the fires had been drawn, was still
almost at blue heat. His third was trying
to persuade him not to enter the fiue him
self, but the chief shook him off.
An acrid-smen of charring wood hoated
out of the three-feet hues, and, then, while
we held our breath, the chief slowly crawl.
| ed down the hot furnace and disappeared
into the dark boiler, while fireman fol-
lowed him along the wing fiue.
For some minutes there was a clatterine
of hammers, and then a nerve-trying 81.
lence. We listened with hearts in our
mouths, but only heard the hammering OF
Nlie runway enBlueS ana the vibrating OF
the plates as a heavy sea struck the ship
| Then a smothered cry came frO.l the flue
For Gods sake get me out! and, lean
ing forward, two firemen dragged the en-
gineer forth. blackened and burned, after
which he promptly collapsed into a dead
faint, while fireman went into the other
fluo at the risk of his life, and. making
fast a rope, his comrade was hauled out
Presently the chief gasped and sat up
holding out hand on which the flesh was
peeling from the bones IN rags II can
do nae mair," he said; "It's a boiler.
makers job. An we Gamma drive the
ither boiler at that rate any songer-it's
no safe the moo. She'll fall off in tho
trough of the sea when the engine slows
an roll over. Lord have mercy on usr
Just then a dilapidated greaser came In
from the engine room, and / recognized the
man who was working his passage. "You
should have sent for me before" he said
Give me the tools"
What dae We ken ABBOTT caking7" ask.
ed the chief, roughly.
II was the best boilermaker in Hartle.
pool before 1 took to drink" was the quiet
reply.
GIVE him the tools-it's neck or nothing
the noo." said the chief.
The stranger carefully wrapped his hands
IN the sacks, and then. with a hammer
slung round his neck, crawled into the