The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-08

to work, but the water gained ana every minute the ship kept getting less buoyant and the big waves kept break ing over her. We started to put in at Longport withthe intention of bleaching her, but the water gained so rapidly that 1t was too late. She was already laboring and the two men at the wheel could do nothing with her. A couple more men went to worK with them and finally they brought her around and headed her towards land.
 Captain Gillies started the pumps, ordered the men to the fire buckets and we formed a line and began to bail, but it was no use. The water gained on the pumps and the buckets and soon the water forced us out.
 When it was found that the power had gone and that she could not move we knew we could not live in the trough of the fearful sea and the only hope left us was to run out the anchor and bring her head up to the sea and let her ride out the gale
 Every seaman realized the danger of attempting to do that in the face of hurricane, and when Captain Gillies, decided to do it he ordered the lashings l of the boat cut and told the men that they were forced to take one last chance for their lives.
 At the word the anchor dropped from the bow and the chain began to pay out, but the sea was too heavy and instead of the anchor catching with a firm grip and bringing the ships head up to the storm with a jerk, it went too slow and she simply tumbled into the trough of the sea, which broke over her in torrents.
 Tn an instant she was as helpless as log and she was tossed here and there | and taking every wave aboard. From port to starboard the great mountains of foaming water poured, rolling into | the hold and was added to the quantity | already weighing her down. The load l was too much and after a moment, when we all felt that we were lost, the | ship keeled over to starboard and went down stern first.
 What became of my mates I do not | know. l remember that the boats had | been loosened and that some of the men | were ready to take to them if the vessel 1 "Clll uOWIl, pll llO DOetI CUulu nave ilN l ed for minute in that terrible sea, and l if any of them did get in the boats it was simply to be swamped as soon as the first wave struck them.
 1 May be they did not leave the ship at all. I was near the spar when the stern of the vessel began to go under, 1 and I went for the rigging and went up as fast as I could. Another man went with me-the second mate-and I thank the Lord that he was with me, or | would have gone made during all the 1 long hours that I was up there hanging l on and trying to keep off the frightful cold that was killing us both.
 There was a rolling to and fro as the vessel struck the bottom and slow | ly righted to an even keel and then second later she rolled over to one side. I thought she was going all the way over, but she did not. She settled On bottom and though the waves rolled 1 her from port to starboard the spar re- maiued out of the water with my mate and myself clinging to it.
 "All this time the hail and sleet was coming down in cutting sheet and
 we were covered with ice in a few minutes, for though the top of the spar on which we were hanging was twenty-five feet above water, the big waves struck us and broke over us and the hail cut us like shot.
 T knew that 1t was about 3 o'clock when we went down and it seemed to me that daylight would never come
 For what seemed to be an age we hung on to the rigging, and we twisted our arms about the spar and let them freeze in position, for we would have fallen into the fearful sea. ,..
 "When daylight came we could not see sail anywhere near us and the sea was as bad as ever. There did not seem to be any chance of it going down. Hour after hour we waited there and then we saw the Mariposa coming. For a long time we did not know whether she would sight us and we watched her from the time she was a little smoky haze up the lake until
 we could see that she was a biz ves- sel.
 When she finally sighted us and we saw her head for us I tried to tell my mate, but I could not, and he looked at me with happy look in his face. It was a terrible time to us before she came up to us, and then I knew that we were not yet safe, for the sea was running mountains high and the big steel boat was rolling like a skiff Every wave sent her up in the air until we could see her white bottom under her water line. We knew at once that her captain would not attempt to low CT boat, for it would have been chew ed up. When the Mariposa got within a cable length of us man with a strong voice yelled to us to hang on
 Then the boat circled around us, com. ing as near as she could, but then she went off to starboard, rolling heavily when she got in the trough of the sea Then she came back again and again but missed us each time. On the third time around she ran right alongside oul spar, and as she went past a dozen mer reached for us. I do not know who got the mate, but MT. Smith, the engineer got hold of me and dragged me from the spar and over the rail of the Mari posa. An instant later we had passed the little stick on which I and the mate had been for almost day, although il seemed Q week"
 The second mate, LaForce, told z narrowing story. He said that in the rush of the men from the hold one oi fharo was ira an1n1p6 tf