Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-11
ALL RESCUED
THRILLING STORY OF WRECK
AND PR1vATIONS-BRA
LIFE SAVING CREW.

Faraman. Bouches du Rhone, Jan. II.
After a night of terrible suspense. all
OF the passengers and crew of the
French steamer Russie from Oran, Al
geria, which stranded near here during
violent storm, Monday heve been safe
ly landed.
AS the life line connected from the
shore with the steamer parted again e9-
terday when night set in, no comlnunita-
ton with the stranded steamer was pos
sible. The last s!gnalled message read
as follows: ..r
I'VE have not a scrap of food left.
CONSERVATION prevails on board
On receipt Of this signal, the fishermen
made two more plucky launches of .heir
boat but were beaten back and as the
Russie disappeared in the darkness those
on board apparently were trying to
launch their only remaining boat.
The storm ragged with renewed fury
during the night and only those who
We're compelled to do so stayed OIL the
shore, part of them huddled beneath
a tarpaulin and others seeking refuge
from the gale in the Faramen lighthouse.
At midnight two boats with lines at
tached to them were launched, but both
attempts to reach the Russie were fruit
less
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 10 reach
the wreck. But they We're again tossed
ashore and the crew of the life boat
who belong to the fishing village of
Caro-, gathered around a bonfire made
OF wreckage from the steamer, drenched
to the skin and with teeth chattering
from cold, but not discoura Eed. their
heroism finally was rewarded, as with
daybreak, the weather percap+ibly
moderated, the sea becoming calmer,
and the wind having shifted from east to
north, the Caro- fishermen at about $3.50
a. m. again put to sea. The spectators
watched with fast beating hearts as the
doat disappeared through the waves.
More than once it was thought she was
engulfed, but the small craft arose in
sight again on the crest Of the waves,
approaching gradually nearer to the
Russie.
Then rope was thrown which the
| firshemen caught and the life boat soon
! afterwards was along side. 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 tnen
launched and succeeded in reaching the
wrecked vessel. A few minutes later
the Caro- boat left the Russie's side,
heavily laden. AS she approached the
shore, the occupants We're seen to be WO-
men and one baby. The enthusiasm was
! delirious The spectators plunged into
the sea. Some of them dragged the life
boat ashore and others liftel the women
out of the boat and carried them in
their arms through the waves to dry
! land. One woman was clasped in the
arms of her son who had been waiting
on the shore since Monday. She swooned
and had to be transported on a stretch
err. hastily constructed from wrec;age
and covered with blankets, to the light
house. The other women collapse from
fatigue, cold and hunger. Their hag-
! gard faces and trembling limbs told
of the awful experiences they had gone
through.
1t was unfortunate that want of fore
sight resulted in all the nourishment be-
| ing kept at the light house, two miles
distant, for the sufferers had to kalk
there, assisted by their friends, before
restoratives could be administered TO
them.
The four cared boat next arrived with
seven more passengers and the life boats
then made repeated journeys, until all
were saved and sheltered in the light