The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1898-01-08
SAVED BY DREAMS.
FISHERMAN FRAzIER'S THRILLING EN-
FERENCE ON THE OCEAN.

Fishing In q Dory Two shipmates
DsoAmed of His Fight and Went to
His Rescue
The life of Arthur Frazier, one of the
rev of the Eliza s. Foster the fisher
man recently in from the Grand Banks,
was saved by a dream.
One day when he was out in dory
there was strong northwest wind and
a heavy fog shut down and hid his
ship from view. He was making for the
vessel with load of fish whom
heavy sea boarded his dory, carrying
away one of his oars and nearly making
his boat trustworthy. This left him in
a helpless condition, and he was at the
mercy of the wind and waves He yell
ed at the top of his voice. The men on
board heard his cries, but could not see
him or understand what he said. They
could hear him as his voice grew weak
er and fainter till nothing could be
heard but the mournful wind whisrIing
through the rigging; then his voice died
away. He did not return that night and
the wind blew almost a gale
In the morning the wind was strong
and the fog hung low. No sign of Fra
zier could be seen. There was large,
feet of vessels from different parts of
the world-France, Portugal, Ireland
and America-and when Frazier failed
to return members of his crew went
among the nearby ones and reported
man lost Not one had heard from him.
AT about noon the sun came out and
pushed the clouds of fog away, but the
wind held to the same point.
The Foster hoisted the flag to half
mast to give notice to the feet of a
missing man. The custom is in such
cases that should the man be on any
other of the feet an answer of flag at
half mast is given. No answer came all
the afternoon, the flag still held that
position, and the wind kept up at al
most gale. That night passed, no Fra
zier appeared, and during the night the
wind shifted two points to southward
Next morning it was back to north
west again. Frazier was given up as
lost. 1t was supposed that the dory was
scapsized when his calls were heard, so
the men resumed work, with a feeling
of sorrow, for Frazier was the life of
the crew and kept them in constant
laughter
AT about 4 o'clock in the afternoon
as the cook was scanning the horizon
with glass, he noticed black speck
in the ocean. He.told the captain and
crew and asked them to look. They did
SO. One man said it was whale, an
other thought it was ship, and so on
The cook and John White, who were
the close friends of Frazier, believed it
mast be he, and proposed to lower a
boat and go to meet him.
Both men had had an odd dream the
might before. The cook dreamed that
Frazier had lost an oar and that the
wind had borne him away, and he said
he was called out of sound sleep by
Frazier, who said: Don't give me up.
I'm beating back" White said his
dream was that Frazier had broken his
right arm and could use only one oar;
that he was alive and hungry in mid.
ocean. Both men, on comparing notes,
found that they were awakened on the
same instant by Frazier calling them
and telling them, For heavens sake
take "a doTy and come to leeward. .
When they saw this speck on the
ocean, they lowered dory, in spite of
the jeers Of some others of the crew, and
put off. They rowed in the direction Of
the dot and soon were out of sight them
selves, for heavy fog had shut from
view the ship, but not the little tattered
sail ahead. At o'clock they reached
boat that was beating against the wind
and sure enough it was Frazier He
was in the stern, using the car as o
stiller. 1t was just as they had dreamed.
He had but one oar. and his arm was
disabled from blow received in fitting
the main boom.
He was in a frightful condition. He
sdidn'tappear to notice the boat till they
were within a few hundred yards of
him. Then White yelled to Frazier
and the latter tainted away with joy.
His boat began drifting, and the other
oar went over the rail. It was quite a
race, but the rescuers soon overlook the
dory and took the man to their own
boat, and letting the other dory go to
sea they made for the ship
That night there was intense excite.
ment aboard ship. There were three
I men missing now. Fog herns were
kblown and bells rung till late hour,
land then, as if the last hope for their
Sreturn had been given up, the noise all
kdied away. The trio In the boat, who
chad neared the ship. now could hear the
Stalking on board, but they could not
make themselves heard against the
Wind All night long did they beat their
Way against the wind, their only hope
icing Il hold tie same position till
lay break.
AS the day dawned they were sur
'ised to find that the fog had lifted,
at they had passed the ship and that
Ney were about three miles to wind
rd, but the feet was in sight. There
IS no difficulty in getting back to the
o, where they were taken aboard.
Ezier was nearly exhausted for want