The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-01-12
THEIR PLIGHT WAS AWFUL


Blake street and flows the entire length
Of Edgewood park. 1t is the part below
Parker's mill that is the especial cause
of complaint.
At the time West river was first used
supply the Parker paper mill retained
the right to use a million gollans per
day and were given the sum of $4,000
besides as compensation. This water
enters the sluceway of the mill in a
clear condition. but passes out impreg-
mated with sinking chlorides and grey
with slime from the rags This filthy
material is discharged into West river
and Is deposited along the bed of the
river through Edgewood park and its
side, until in the early morning, the
plates gave way and the stern Of the
vessel went to pieces. The utmost con-
sternation now prevailed among the
passengers, who fled to the forecastle
deck amidships, and the foredeok, cling
ing to the rails and stanchions. Again
we witnessed desperate efforts all day
long to rescue us.
when night fell without relief and
with the tempest still raging the scene
on board was frightful. The passengers
seemed heart broken, the women weep
ing convulsively.
Thursday morning the cruiser Cali
lee hove in sight. Hope revived as she
was seen approaching US with engines
reversed. The lamentations of the pas
sengers changed to rejoicings. The
women cried Bravo and Long live the
French sailors But suddenly the
Galilee stopped The water was too
shallow and the waves threatened to
engulf her. She made for the open sea
and the passengers were again plung-
ed into the deepest despair.
THE efforts on shore with lifeboats
and rockets were renewed, but without
success. A rain of small shot from the
rockets fell on the deck, endangering
the seamen. Finally the crew Of life
boat got alongside and gave us a line.
This we hauled in order to drag the
hawser attached to it, but the hawser
broke. Toward evening big sea
swept all the holds except the forehold.
"Our provisions now were almost ex-
hausted. We had only few biscuits
and tins of preserves, with wine and
some artichokes and oranges, a portion
of the cargo in the forehold. All our
solids were consumed at the last meal,
I Thursday evening.
1--WE passed an atrocious night, but
were rescued this morning. All the
cargo was lost and only part of the
mail and the passengers baggage was
saved. The accident was due to mis-
taking the Faraman light for the
Planter light, mistake which has
caused the loss and wreck of more
than twenty steamers and given to the
coast the name Of The Mariners
Graveyard -
Faraman, France, Jan. 11.-All of the
passengers and crew of the French
steamer Russie, which stranded Mon
day. have been landed. None was in
jured nor were any of them ill.
AS the lifeline from the shore to the
steamer parted again yesterday after
noon when night set in no communica-
ton with the stranded vessel was pos
sible. The last signaled message was:
I'VE was not a scrap of food left. Con-
sternation prevails on board
On receipt of this appeal the fisher
men made two more plucky launches of
their boat, but were beaten back, and
as the Russie disappeared in the dark
ness those on board were apparently |
trying to launch their only remaining |
boat.
The storm ragged with renewed fury !
during the night, and only those who |
were compelled to stay on the shore, |
part of them budding beneath tar |
paulin and others seeking refuge from |
the gale in the Faraman lighthouse.
AT midnight two floats, with lines at
tached to them were launched, but both |
attempts to reach the Russie were
fruitless.
In the early hour of the morning
torches were lighted at the bow of the
Russie and in response to the signal the
fishermen made another effort to reach
the wreck, but they were again tossed
ashore, and the crew of the lifeboat
who belong to the fishing village of
Caro-, gathered around the bonfire
made of wreckage from the steamer,
drenched to the skin and with their
teeth chattering from cold, but not dis
couraged.
Their herosm was finally rewarded,
however, as, with daybreak, the wealth.
er perceptibly moderated, the sea be-
came calmer, the wind having shifted
from east to north, and they again put
to sea. The spectators watched as the
boat disappeared through the waves.
More than once it was thought she was
engulfed, but the small craft rose in
sight again on the crest of the seas and
approached, gradually, nearer the Rus
sic. Then a rope was thrown, which |
the fishermen caught, and the lifeboat
soon afterward was alongside. Another
boat, manned by four men, was then
and succeeded in reaching
the wrecked vessel.
A few minutes later the Caro- boat
left the Russies side, heavily laden.
AS she approached the shore the occu
pants were seen to be women and one
baby The enthusiasm was delirious,
The spectators plunged into the sea.
Some Of them dragged the lifeboat
ashore and others lifted the women out
If the boat and carried them IN their 6
arms, through the waves to dry land.
One woman was clasoed in the arms !
If her son, who had been waiting on
shore since Monday. She swooned and
lad to be taken on a stretcher to the i
lighthouse. The other women collapsed c
With fatigue, cold and want of food, 1
Their haggard faces and trembling c
limbs told of the awful experiences thew !
lad gone through. O
The four oared boat next arrived with ! S
even more passengers, and the life G
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