The age-herald., 1898-11-09

"At in the afternoon the Merritt's wore ship just astern of the Teresa and came up under her lee just in time to take on the first boat load of rescued persons. The wreckers and volunteers from the naval vessels had succeeded in lowering one of the two surf boats hanging from davits on Teresas port side. Putting quickly clear of the ships side, the boats crew, compos- ed of the wreckmen, went about saving the people in systematic way.
 There was less than four hours Of day. light left in which to rescue 114~persons, including eighteen Cuban coal passengers, and such sea was running as would have daunted any lifeboat crew. To have at mp go near cnou.s n De great ships side to let her people climb down or drop into the boats meant certain de- struction to the rescuing party. So, while the boat was lowed by It's painter from the ships lee quarter and was kept clear by two men at the oars and by the steers man in the stern, another line was used to send down the men from the ship.
 Each man slung in the center of this rope was hauled through the water, in most cases to the boat, and then tumbled process, as the result proved. for by 5 o'clock every man, as far as we could see, was safe on board the Merritt.
 '"The force of the gale and height of the sea may be best understood by the fact that although only 230 fathoms of hawser
 
 watchers on the latter vessel, owing to the heavy seas, driving rain and spray, were only able to see the boats of the rescuing party at long intervals when they came out of the trough of the sea. The Merritt herself, although a splendid boat, was buried in the trough of the sea at times so that only the ends of her mastheads were visible.
 ''The first boat lowered made in all four round trips between the Teresa that held the hawser in case the three trips so that to rescue all hands the boats had to make the passage through those heavy combing seas fourteeen times, and right gallantly those brave fellows accomplished the work. Lucky indeed was it for the rescued that the, boats were manned by the past mas ters at the oar and helm.
 For two hours men with axes under the direction of the executive officer had been stationed aft ready to cut away at a mo- ments notice the lines that held the hawsers, in case the Teresa should foun- der during the transfer of her men. Every Vulcan man watched the great ship with an axious eye as she plunged 'forecastle under the head seas clear to the turret coming out again with the water streaming from her hawser pipes and showing the heel of her ram above the next big sea. Forty-four shipmates of theirs were aboard the doomed vessel and it was yet a question whether their rescue could be effected before dark.
 Heavy sea squalls beat the seas down little at this time. but the wind blew harder than ever. Struggling for a foot hold on the Teresa's rickety bridge, her single man, Crossett, wigwagged to the Vulcan at o'clock Don't cast off the tow line yet; two more boatloads will clear the ship. We replied. "All right; will hold on until the iast.'
 High upon the bridge, against the leaden sky and bracing himself against the fearful rolling of the Teresa as she wall