The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-10

YOUNG REALIZES THAT He IS AFoUL.
side of the small boat, his weights were
put on over his shoulders, the cranks of
the air pumps began to revolye n with
the signal, "All right" given by two
pats on the top of his helmet, John
Young gently sank beneath the V
easing himself down his shot rope as he
went.
1t would appear. says the Cincinnati
Enquirer, that in Suda bay there must
have been a submarine current, probably
only very slight, but nevertheless sufii-
GENTLY strong when Young descended to
turn him gradually, but completely,
around, so that ere he touched the bot
tom he had nnknowingly already got his
life line and air pipe foul.
Utterly unaware of this and finding the
torpedo Immediately. Young gave the
signaEa pull on his life line-whieh had
already peer agreed upon, and which
meant that he was ready for the five inch
hawser to be lowered to him.
This was done, and, catching hold of
the eud of the hawser, he CROPPED his way
to the torpedo, wading through the heavy
bottom mud, which was nearly up to his
knees. Making the hawser fast to the
tail of the torpedo, he must have moved
completely around the submerged weapon
from left to right, thus making another
foul.
The haWser being made fast, Young
now started TO ascend up the shot rope,
quite unaware that he had made a hitch
around both it and the torpedo with both
his air pipe and breast line.
By this time Young must have come to
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had assembled a short distance and then
found he could not move. Therefore, like
a wise a he went down again and
tried to find out where the trouble was,
but owing to its being pitch dark where
he was it is not to be wondered at that
he failed to do SO.
Almost despairing of being able to free
himself and dreading to resort to the last
resource THAT of cutting himself clear
with his knife), lest he should get foul
again while going up, the unfortunate
man gave four pulls on his air pipe. This
is the most urgent signal that a diver can
send to his friends aboye 1t means Pull
me up at once by my life line"
At first the operators hesitated to act
on this, but ON the urgent repetition Of
the signal the order was given on the
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commencing to do this the operators
found it was impossible to bring up more
than a fathom of the line. Worse still,
the only result of this operation was to
turn Young completely upside down! The
very first pull on the line, e~ntangled as
it was around the torpedo, must have
done this.
Now. once a diver loses his perpendic-
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the legs of he's dress, up they go, and
then nothing that he can do will ever
bring them down again. He is a mere
helpless wind bag, quite incapable of re-
yersiug himself. This is precisely what
must have happened to Young. The loop
of his life line round the torpedo pulled
him On to his chest, the hapless mans
legs Immediately went I'D, buoyed with
air. and SO he remained, humping about
on his head in total darkness, IS feet at
fhe bottom of the sea. OF course those
above could not tell what had happened.
Unable to bring the diver up and getting
mo more signals from him, a so candle
power electric submarine lamp was low
cred down to him at 7:30 p. m. To this
was attached a slate and pencil. so that
the helpless man could write on the slate
and inform those above precisely what
his dilemma was
After his rescue Young said he remem-
bered seeing the light, but he never mad
any recollection Of the slate. All TINS
time he was floating at the bottom OF the
sea, heels uppermost, the monotony pc
ing varied By his occasional humping his
head into the mud. During the next
hour all other expedients to COMMUNICATE
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equally fruitless, and now another grave
danger entered upon the extraordinary
scene. The cylinders Of the air pump.
which had been working continuously for
some eight hours, showed signs of over
work aud were rapidly getting red hot.
ii this case they would have 70 be stop
ned altogether. However. luckily there
was a plentiful supply Of ICE on Doard
ne Hood. and. BIZ packing this continual