The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-16
GALLANT RESCUES
BY LIFE-SAVFRS

FALMOUTH, Oct. ia dispatch
from st. Keverine, a small town a little
to the eastward of the Manacles. said
eighteen bodies from the Mohegan have
been washed ashore there They have
been deposited in the parish church
A member of the Port Houstock life
boat crew, named James, gave a
graphic account of the wreck. He says
that as soon as the disaster was an
nOunced his crew was summoned to the
boat and proceeded to the Manacles.
They could see no lights, the night was
pitch dark, and no rocks were discern
ible, but they heard shouting and pull
ed toward the spot from which the
voices came. No steamer was visible.
but the lifeboat came across an over
turned lifeboat to which four or five
men We're clinging. They were taken on
board the lifeboat. Later the crew
heard shouting near the overturned
lifeboat, and with grapnells man
aged to right it. Inside the boat
they found a : oman and two or three
men alive. The woman was so tightly
damned in the wreckage that the life
boat men had to cut away the thwarts
of the small boat before they could ex-
tricate her.
James said the lifeboat passed sew
eral bodies of men and women and
picked up a couple CT men who were
floating on Wreckage.
The lifeboat then met a ships boat
having on board twenty-five passen-
gers and crew, all of whom would have
been speedily lost if not rescued at that
time, as the boat was Water-logged and
raDidly drifting toward the rocks The
occupants of this boat were taken into
the Hfeboat. While the latter was
u Il
Noble of Baltimore.
''She is the Quickest lady I ever saw
in my life" said James. She shouted,
Don't shove me an oar; give me a
rope The sea then swept her toward
US and we caught her hands and got
her safely on board in as good state as
could be expected. We then had forty
eight persons in the boat, including the
crew, and could hear shouting from the
steamer. We approached her and saw
Steward Gray clinging to the jigger-
mast. We then saw that all four masts
were still standing and the survivors
We're clinging to them. We backed in
right over the wreck and succeeded in
rescuing the boatswain, cook and 9TH
ers. Next we rescued an engineer who
was clinging to the steamers funnel.
All this occupied several hours. We
then made for the shore"
Further adV1ces from st. keVer1ne
say the panic on the Mohegan was ter
rible and the cries of despair were
heard on shore.
one passenger cut away the falls OF
a lifeboat with a razor and thus saved
several lives.
Miss Rondebush and her mother, Mrs
Grandin, entered a ships boat, which
was capsiZed and Mrs Grandin was
damned between this boat and a life
boat. One of the lifeboat's crew, al
great personal risk, jumped on board
the steamers boat after the latter had
righted and pulled Mrs. Grandin from
her dangerous position. But she was
landed in a dying condition, and all
the efforts to revive her were use
less. When Miss Rondebush landed
later she 7anxiously inquired for her
mother whose body was identified by
the Vicar of St KeVerine from the de-
scription of a ring furnished to him by
the daughter. One of Mrs Grandin's
feet was torn from the leg.