The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-05-27
IN THE GREAT STORM \

The great storm of February 18th
last, had many tragic incidents, but
few more thrilling than one that be-
fell two boys and a man Of East
Marion, Long, Island. These were
Edwin Tuthill and Daniel Brown, sons
OF residents of East Marion, and Her
man Kuehne, gardener at the place Of
a Brooklyn gentleman near East
Marion. They went out on the 18th to
shoot ducks, which gather in great
numbers along the shore of Long Is
land Sound, and having killed some.
they put off after them in two small
boats, of the kind locally known as
"sharpies."
While they were out the ice closed
around them, and prevented them
from getting back to the shore. Night
came on. 1t was cold, but the three
were warmly clothed, and kept hard
at work, trying to row the boats to
shore. Toward midnight they saw
that this would be impossible. They
were floating down the bay, and great
ice foes were about them. They heard
shouts from the shore, but in the
storm they could not make their own
voices heard.
By and by they saw that they could
no longer maintain themselves In the
boats, and therefore they crawled out
on n of the largest Of the ice-floes,
and dragged the boats out after them.
They cleared the snow from the center
of the ice cake, and piled it so as to
make a cradle for one of the boats.
The other they turned bottom up and
placed on top of the first. Snow was
piled or the windward side of the
shelter thus provided. The three
crawled in between the two boats and
huddled together to keep warm, or as
warm as they could.
Soon the wind changed, and they
were aware that their ice raft was be-
ing blown along rapidly, and they cor
rectly surmised hat they we're moving
out to sea.
Long hours they passed thus in the
darkness, with the wind blowing a
gale n the snow driving fercely
through the crevices of their rude
shelter. The rising sea heaved their
raft high on the water, and every mo-
ment they expected that it would &c
to pieces and leave them in the icy
water to perish. They were hungry,
and as they had some of the ducks
they had shot, they ate portions OF
them raw.
Daylight of the 14th showed that
they were off Montauk Point and drift
ing seward. There was open water
, about them, and they resolved to leave
the raft. They launched the boats and
tried to row to the nearest shore, but
the thick masses of drifting ice pre-.
} vented them from doing SO. Giving
up hope in this direction, they turned
northward and rowed toward Fishers
Island, and arrived there in mid-after.
noon OF the 18th. They tried for miles
l to effect a landing, but could not.
Meantime two steamers had gone on
in search of them. They had beer
t seen to take refuge on the ice-fLoe, ant
their parents and friends knew tina
they were thus adrift. The fathers O
the two boys steamed along the shor,
as far as Montauk Point, but missed
them. An ocean-going tug from New
3 London coasted around Fishers Island
but also missed them. When darkness
/ fell the steamers went back to Green
Q port, feeling sure that the boys hat
9 drifted out to sea and were lost.
About nightfall Of the 14th the boy
z succeeded in rowing to Gardeners Is
r land, which is occupied only by a few
i United States soldiers and employe
4 who are engaged in constructing de
lenses. The castaways were almos
dead with cold and exhaustion, but tn
soldiers at once gave them shelter
o and warmth. At noon on the 18th
after they had been forty-eight hour
absent from home, the tug from Ney
y London came to GARDENERS Island t.
make inquiries, and found them. The
s were restored 500 afterward to thei
a parents and friends. Tuthill an
= Kuehne were little the worse for tn
Q experience, but young Browns fac
q was badly frost-bitten.
q Little Girls Ruse to Meet Schley.