The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-03

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 points, sunk" to port with them.
 All fast!'
 | We passed the point and descended | When l arrived aft the man at the
 wheel shouted: I'm getting played
 out, MT. B-!''
 | Hand aft to the wheel"
 The man was relieved; he went for
 ward with the precipitation streaming
 down his face.
 l As soon as I had descended from
 aloft the old man had gone below--"to
 get my oil-coat," he said.
 The seas were combing higher and
 higher astern and as l started forward
 to sing out an order, heavy sea came
 aboard over the starboard quarter and
 carried everything before 1t as far for ward as the mainmast.
 The man at the wheel was flung ob-
 liquely across the deck and overheard to loo'ard; it smashed the cabin sky light and half-filled the cabin, the old man scrambling out in hurry.
 I made rush for the wheel and kept her off, but another sea like that was liable to come aboard any moment. As the old man scrambled up the compan- ion-way, I roared:
 "Helmsman overheard! We'd better bring her tor
 He came to loo'ard of the wheel and pped: ''Yes, we'll try it, we'll try it!' Relieve the wheel here!" I shouted,
 A man came aft and l dashed him to the wheelpost. Starting forward, I sung out, "WiI!"
 "Ay, ay, sir!" he answered.
 "Go below in the forespeal and get that storm trysail out!" "Ay, ay, sir!"
 The forecastle of the ship was below the deck, away forward. It was reached by ladder, the lower end of which rested on the deck of the foc'sle,
 the upper end being made fast to the combings of the forescuttle. In the center of the fo'c'slc floor was trap door which led into the forehold, spare sails, odds and ends of rigging, etc, be- ing stored therein.
 As soon as Will had closed the scut- tie behind him, I relieved the man at the wheel and prepared to bring her to.
 "Clew up both topsails!" I yelled. The sails slapped and banged in the wind, but were finally mastered.
 Lay aloft and roll em up!"
 The only sails on her now were the and foretopmast-stay- sail, but she was still tearing along like one possessed. Will came up with the stormtrysail, which was quickly bent and set.
 "Go below in the forepeak again, Will and get that big tarpaulin to put over thls broken skylisht!' roared.
 ,t.att I lxNIz closing the escuttle after him.
 A very high sea is generally followed by three or four comparatively smaller ones, so. waiting till the next heavy one had swept under us, I flung the wheel hard down and lashed it. Fore tcpmast -staysail" I roared, jumping into the main rigging to watch her.
 She swung around till the wind was abeam, when she staggered, rolled to wind'ard and stopped!
 My God! l made a rush for the halyards and let them go with a run. Before I could get back to the main rigging a tremendous sea came aboard square abeam.
 As went flying overheard to loo'ard clutched at coll of rope-part of the ltC utli OIl, ttdllIlS | half a ships length down the wind l But only for moment.
 The next heavy sea turned her com pletely over, part of the upper spars breaking away and driving to loo'ard. l made grab for the wreckage of the l 'gallantmast as 1t swept toward me, md after a desperate struggle, succeed d in flashing myself to the broken ,rosstrees.
 The last glimpse I had of the ship showed her keel uppermost and stern ,n It would take better pen than nine to describe the horror of that light, how I was buffeted and tossed, high on the summit of a 'omber and again half-smothered in he valleys below, my body plaything Or the element.
 But through it all I chung desperate y to the wreckage.
 Every incident of my life passed in eview before me. and l thought of ,oor Will being trapped in the fore 1eak. They're all gone, they're all ;one," I muttered to myself; I'm lext."
 knew I could hold out for at least hirty hours, providing I didn't lose my enses. And as I was right in the track f ships bound to and from the United 'tates seapcrts, l encouraged myself with the hope that I might be picked D. And, as is evidenced by my being ere to write this tale of horror, I was 'y daylight the wind had dropped con- iderable and the sea went down a bit. I think I must have been just drow- ing off into that sleep which is the recursor of death, when heard some ne shout:
 "Unship bow oars! Wen go to loo'- I'd of 1t! Easy now! Stick your boat ook under that backstayl Way | 
 Housing myself, looked to loo'ard nd there within a boats length was ,ngboat fully mannedl l caught sight a big ship lying about half mile eyond, and of course I guessed the est
 Why" some one shouted "he's alive II right"
 I waved my hand and then cast off le lashings. They soon had me in the pat stretched out on a grating. stow me" said the coxswain, 'T 1 new there was man dashed to that 1 reckage! I says to Bill Strop, says I, lem yer crosstrees.' BIT me- says ' i'll, says he, it looks like 'un.' So the Id man told us to lower boat an {