Arizona republican., 1898-05-16

Capt. Hollands first trip in his sub marine craft was attended with an ac- cident which proved very exciting for a few minutes to the people on board After her lines were cast off she was headed for Robbins Reef light house, about mile away. When about mid way between it and the Jersey shre Capt. Holland said: Hold fast! Pm going to dive down to the bottom" |" As he said this he opened the valves, allowing the water to enter her sub merging tanks, and properly deflected her stern fins or side rudders, so that they threw her stern up and her nose down.
 Down, down she went for a min ute or more," relates a man who was aboard her, land presently her nose stuck in the mud at the bottom and she came to full stop with a sudden ness which would have thrown us down had we net been holding fast to our supports. The instant Capt. Hol- land felt the vessel stop he said: Well, here we are.' Then he stopped the engine, and reversing it, prepared to back out. As he did this I threw over the rudder, first to port and then to starboard, just as I would if we were on the surface, in order to wiggle waggle her stern and help release her. This maneuver I kept up for probably two minutes, but the boat did not budge one inch. Then I remembered and so did Holland, that the mud bank in which we were fast was Of a par ticularly sticky, pasty, clayey and ad- hesive character. He stopped the pro- peller engine a minute and then set the pumps to work to expel the water from her tanks in order ta Tighten her up and make her as buoyant as possible.
 Tt took several minutes to empty the tanks, and then he reversed the engine and set the propeller going again, hoping that now she would back out of her slimy embrace with ease. She did not, however, but remained as nrmly fixed in the grasp of the mud as though she was clamped in an iron vice.
 The boat contained tanks of fresh air, but both myself and Capt. Hol- land knew that there was only suffi- clency of it to maintain our lives for a few hours.
 we had been fast in the mud prob, ably three minutes when Holland said: will try the pneumatic gun.' This gun formed the rear of a tube in the bow of the boat through which a torpedo could be discharged. He charged it as high as it would bear with compressed air and then touched 1t oil. In a second I knew that we were free, for the instant the boats nnCA ro1no ccd {I1 the sticky mud it became SO light through the fact that the water tanks in 1t were empty that it rose far above an even keel. We breathed freely in more than the literal sense
 Capt. Holland, now assured that we were rising to the surface, applied full force ahead to the propeller In less time than I can tell you we reached the surface of the water, and through the coming tower I saw that we had ygilv Latwa: CToff ofnsl- Gydz$pacfi come up very close to a man who was fishing from a skiff He evidently had not heard of the Holland submarine boat, and though we were an aqua eous monster of some fearful charac- ter, for, letting his line go, he sprang to his oars and pulled for the shore with a speed which would have excited the admiration of Ned Hanlan him. self
 q headed our boat for Bayonne, and in ten minutes we were again safe in our dock When the cap of the con- ming tower was removed I scrambled up on deck and then made the best of my way to the wharf AS I did I turned and looked at what had come so near being my iron coffin, and saw that it's nose had been thrust fully fifteen feet into the mud, and then I marvelled that was alive. e."-Phila- delphia Times