The herald., 1897-01-06
LONG BEACH
The Sailor Quartette Still Talking of
Their Rough Experience


LONG BEACH. Jan. 5.-The escape of
the two men and the two boys on board
the sail boat Nellie last Thursday seems
wonderful. The men had not been five
minutes on board the Nellie when they
realized that they could not get her
back to her moorings. There was no
one on board who had any practical
experience in sailing. Mr.. Talbot the
owner of the yacht, was without his
coat, going aboard in his shirt sleeves,
ana frank Hodges, the youngest of the
boys, had been playing on the beach in
his bare feet and went aboard without
his shoes, and the other boy was not
purdened with any too much clothing.
About dark they were convinced that
they could not get the Nellie back to her
moorings. So, filling a sack with rock
Wnlch was on the boat, as ballast, they
threw 1t over as an anchor, the boat
peing then. they said, about six miles
southeast from the wharf at Long
Beach. The rock found bottom at a
depth of thirty feet, the quartette get
ting into the skiff and making a desper-
ate but Intellectual attempt to reach
Long Beach, the lights of which were
plainly visible. After several hours of
bard work the attempt to make Long
beach was given up and the skiff headed
Tor Newport. Upon reaching Newport
the wind was SO strong and the break
ers so rough, landing there was out of
the question, and their weary trip was
resumed down the coast, waiting for the
wlnd and sea to abate and keeping a
sharp lookout for a place at which a
landing might be effected Guided by
providence, they got into a little cove
about six miles below Newport after
dark, there being no possibility of their
seeing. 1t was the only place on the
coast for miles that 1t was at all nos
StDle FOR them tn land hav
formed by the people at Newport, which
place they reached on Saturday They
did not feel the cold so much, they said.
as they did hunger, but as the men re-
peatedly fell down after landing, in
their walk toward Newport, there can
be no question but that the cold wind
which they had been subjected to for
almost two days had penetrated and
benumbed them. They had been given
UP as lost and the news of their safety
seemed almost too good to be true. and
when the first dispatch which was re-
cefved at about a. m on Saturday,
announcing their arrival at Newport,
was confirmed by one received two or
three hours later. the long, pent-up
agony of suspense found relief in the
most heartfelt expressions of joy and
gratitude. Richard Schoenberger was
brought home by his brother. Robert.
who had driven over to Newport the
udy peloTe III HOpeS OF nearing or learn
ing something about the Nellie. about
three hours before the other three, who
came in on the Southern Pacific which
got here that night at $40. They were
all pretty we'll used up by their perilous
trip.
The motor yacht Clemente, Capt
Remington, which went in search Of the
Nellie. had an exceedingly rough time of
it and suffered material damage. both
to her engine and sails, she having en-
oountered some very heavy, choppy
seas at the distance from shore she was
prosecuting her search for the missing
boat. The Nellie has not been seen or
heard from since the night she was
abandoned
EX-Postmaster Van Duzen and wife of
Los Angeles were the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. p. l.. on Sunday.
Miss Mabel Morrin of Rumsey, Yolo
county, pupil in the Cumnock School of
Oratory. Los Angeles, spent the holidays
at this place with her aunt, Mrs c. W.
Campbell.