Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-29

wo Dchci0 tho treacherous rookG
straight ahead Of us. AS | saw the
white waves-whiter because of thu
darkness which surrounded us--dash-
Ing against them, had no shadow y
doubt that we were lost. Pitch dark y
1t was, but sailor can see rocks with'
out a light to guide him-for the matter
Of that, believe he can smell them
and 1t does not need sailors eye Il
see the white foam from a raging &C.,
dashed from an iron bound shore back
into the black waters. Many's the time
| have seen the spotless spray leaplnG
up the sides of the rocks that line thu
foreign shores, and, curling back aGaia
in beautiful showers, laughing In shA
sun-sparkles that filled them With A6nt
and made them look like miluEus o.
living silver stars; but then tAe dayT
were fine, and the sun was shining. Il
was different now. There was no sun
and no moon, and the swell Of the sea
toward the shore came to my ears like
LiS oOuHu VI IuuIueu uTumS,
The task we had before us now waI
to prevent The Rising Sun from set
ting bodily toward the land; but the
task was too much for us, and though
we worked with will we could not
avoid our fate. The vessel hardly had
steerage way, and the heavy southwest
swell was driving her nearer and near
er to the black rocks. BY midnight
she had become perfectly unmanage-
able; and all the passengers, being now
alarmed and aware of their peril were
on deck, keeping their feet as we'll az
they could. l looked out on the lee
beam, and saw the land, like q fog
bank, creeping nearer and nearer to US,
In the midst Of my duties had striven
hard, but without success, to discover
Bob and Pearl, and 1t was while l was
thinking of the land with a feeling oil
agony that womans voice, falling on
my ear, sent shock through me which
curdled my blood.
Hush, my child-hushw were the
spoken words; and it was my wife who !,
uttered them to my boy.
Dumb with fearful Joy and amaze
ment l turned toward the voice, when
The Rising Sun came crash
against sharp, jutting rock,
and, If you will believe 1t.
carried part of it away. In the midst
of the cries of despair that accompanied
the crash, myself called out: ma.
bel! Mabel! give me my boy" But my
voice only added to the general terror
and confusion, and before we had time
to recover ourselves, the ship lurched
on to another point of rock, which |
carried away her spanker-boom and
rudder, And now, dark as 1t was BE-
fore, 1t grew darker. Ay, 1t wes Nke
the Egyptian darkness, for 1t could al. |
most be felt, and The Rising Sun |
seemed to be slowly cutting her way
through it, as If 1t were a substance
The two points Of rock which the YES,
sci had struck formed the entrance Il !
a huge water cave, and into this cave
we were now fatally working our way
This accounted for the increasing dark
ness, for above us and before us were
savage rocks, from the walls of which |
the thick slime was crawling down tt
the sea. This much l know, and thiS |
much l saw, but l was mercifully I
spared from the conscious knowledge
Of a great deal of the agony and terror
of that awful night The mizzen-top-
gallant mast coming down with tire.
mendous force, l was struck prone tC
the deck by it, and for a time l partial.
ly lost my senses.
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