The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-01-12
HEROES SAVE
MANY LIVES
French Fishermen Rescue
Passengers and Crew.
TRY AGAIN ANDAGAIN
TO REACH WRECK
Brave Efforts Succeeded After
Many Hours.

Faraman. -Rhone, Jan. II.
After q night OF terrible suspense, all
of the passengers and crew of the
French steamer Russie. from Oran, Al
geria, which stranded near here during
a violent storm Monday, have been
safely landed.
AS the life line connected from the
shore with the steamer parted again
yesterday. when night set in no com
munication with the stranded steamer
was possible. The last signalled mes
sage read as follows:
We have not a scrap Of food LETT.
Consideration prevails on board
on receipt of this signal, the fisher
men made two more plucky launches
of their boat, but were beaten back,
and as the Russie disappeared in the
darkness those on board apparently
were trying to launch their only re
naming boat.
The storm ragged with renewed fury
during the night and only those who
We're compelled to stayed on the shore,
part of them huddled beneath a 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 10 reach the Russie were
fruitless.
Not Discouraged by Failure
In the early hours of the morning
torches We're 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 life
boat who belong to the fishing village
of Caro-, gathered round a bonfire
made of wreckage from the steamer,
drenched to the skin and with teeth
ChatUeTing from cold, but not discOuT-
aged. Their herOism finally vas reward
ed, as, with daybreak, the weather per-
ceptibly moderated, the sea, became
calmer and the wind, having shifted
from east to north, the CAIRO fisher
men at about $50 a. m. again put TO
sea. The spectators watched with fast
beating hearts as the boat disappeared
through the waves. More than once Ii
was thought she was engulted, but the
small craft rose In sight again on the
crest OF the waves, approaching grad
ually nearer to the RusSie.
Then a rope was thrown, which the
fishermen caught, and the lifeboat soon
afterwards was alongside. Then, above
the bowling wind, rose cries of JOY
from those on board the Russie, which
were re-echoed by the crowd ashore.
Another boat, manned by four men,
was then launched and succeeded in
reaching the wrecked vessel
Take OFF Women and Baby.
A few minutes later the Cairo BOAT
left the Russie's side, heavily laden As
she approached the shore, the OccU-
pants were seen TO be women and one
baby. The enthusiasm was deIirious.
The spectators plunged into the sea.
Some of them dragged the HfebOat
ashore and others lifted the women out
of the boat and carried them in their
arms through the waves to dry land.
One woman was cidSped in the arms
of her son, who had been waiting on
shore since Monday She swOOned and
mad TO be transported on a stretcher.
hastily constructed from wreckage and
covered with blankets. to the light
house. The other women collapsed
from fatigue. cold and hunger. Their
haggard faces and trembling limbs told
of the awful experiences they had gone
through.
All the nOurishment being kept at
the lighthouse, two miles distant, the
sufferers had to walk there, assisted
by their friends, before restoratives
could be administered TO them.
The fOur-Oared boat next arrived
with seven more passengers, and the
lifebOats then made repeated journeys
until all were saved and sheltered in
the lighthouse.