The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-06-05

clutching che shronds and Delaying
pins.
rushed below and brought M
blanket and great coat to wrap him
IN and he was promptly swung over
into the boat, where Carlton received
and supported him.
Three bags Of bread, with a tarpaulin
TO cover them, two kegs of rurl. four
casks OF water, with cars, sails and
blankets, were thrown pell-mell into
the boat A Ratchet and a bundle of
spun-yard completed our stores.
The compasses we're considered now
TO be useless, or were omitted, l for
get which.
Inc wind still amounted to a gale,
though less violent, and It famed the
growing flames, so that the fated brig
burned fast. The lightning still fash
ed, but at the horizon, and the thun-
der was heard to grumble above the
hiss Of the sea; yet we needed tnem
not, though they added to the terror
and the grandeur of the scene; and,
most proyidentially for us, the fuE Of
the storm was past.
Tattooed Tom was the last man who
left the brig, and the moment he was
IN the boat he exclaimed, with a loud
voice, that rang above the roaring Of
the flames, which now gushed through
every hatchway and aperture, above
the bowling Of the wind and the break
Ing Of the frothy sea
Shove off!-out oars, there, to star
board-pull round her stern-pull with
will to windward-keep the boats
bow to the break of the seal"
We pulled silently and vigorously,
and soon got clear of the brig, through
the four stern windows of which four
lines Of light glared redly on the ocean.
All our strength was required to
achieve this, for the brig, being the
larger body, attracted the boat toward
her. However we got safely to wind
ward. which was absolutely necessary
for to leeward there fell Kissing into
the sea torrent of sparks and burn
ing brands from the rigging, which was
all in flames now.
Resting upon our oars, or only using
them to keep the boats head to the
break of the sea, and to prevent hel
being swamped-an operation during
which they were as often flourished il
the air as in the ocean, when we rost
on the crest of one vast, heaving wave
or sank into the dark vale of watel
between two-resting thus. we gazeC
in silence and with aching hearts a
the destruction of our home upon tn,
sea.
We could feel the heat Of the con
f1agration even to wIndward. In quar-
ter Of an hour she was enveloped from
stem to stern in a sheet of fire tina
rose skyward in the form of a pyra
mid. By this time every vestige o
her spars, sails and rigging had dis
appeared.
The entire deck had been consumed
the bulwarks and nodded plank-shee
rapidly followed, and through tn
flames that roared fiercely from tn
hollow of her hull we could see tn
black timberheads standing upwar
like row of fangs.
Rents appeared next in her sides a
the flames burst through the inner an
outer sheathing, and with hissin
sound as they met the waves of tn
briny sea- Then a salt steam ros
and it's strange odor, with that {
the burning wood, was waited at time
toward us.
At last she gave a sudden heel
starboard, and with a sound until
! anything ever heard before-a delus
, of water extinguishing a mighty fire
: the waves rushed unanimously in c
. all sides. She vanished from our sig
t in mist and obscurity, and heaN
: darkness suddenly replaced the gla
that for a time had lit up the heaviI
!, sea, dazzling our eyes and sickenir
!, our hearts.
!, ITO be continued)