The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-08-19
AT NEWPORT.

AT NEWPORT.
Four Casualties in one day-How Inn
perilled Bathers Escaped from the
Undertow.
Newport, Aug. 15.-It was Black
Friday here yesterday. Of casual
tiles there were no less than four,
but happily none were character
lied by fatal results. The most i'm
portant was that of a Baptist cler-
pyman from McMinnville. Along
with hundred other seasiders, he
was in bathing. He was well out
to sea and it was near the turn OF
the tide. The undertow had set in
strong from the shore, and by and
by it dawned forcibly on the minis
ter that it was carrying him to sea.
He turned his course and strove
hard as he could against it, but
learned with horror that in spite
of his best efforts he was getting
farther and farther away from land.
His cry for help was heard along
the beach, and Salem bather. him
self well out to sea fastened to his
aid But the tow soon had the res
cuer in its embrace as well as the
rescued. Their struggles to regain
the shore only carried them further
away.
Panic seized the bathers and all
hands sought to mitigate the dam
ger. The rope from the halyards
M flag pole was pulled down by
strong hands. No other rope was
available. Life preservers were
brought, and men carried one end
of the rope out to the imperllled
bathers, and both were hauled a
shore. The minister was a suffer
er from exhaustion and nervous ex-
citement long after the incident
closed.
A man and his wife were enroute
via the Richardson barge to New
port. The wife missed her footing
as she attempted to pass from boat
to wharf. and fell into the deep wa
ter. The husband leaped in after
her, and there was prospect that
both would be lost. Then another
man jumped in, only to be followed
by still another. In brief time, all
had hold of each other, that one
nearest the boat was hauled in by
willing hands. The woman was
last to appear, but beyond the wet
ting and floods of salt water swal-
lowed, the incident was dangerless.
A.lady of $50 pounds avoirdupois
sat contemplative1y on the big rock
that makes into the sea near Jump
Off Joe. The tide was coming in
while she mused. and as is SO often
the case was well up on the rock
before she noticed it. The custo-
mary big wave came along just
then, and in her frightened effort to
avoid it, she slid from her perch in
to the frigid wave. She was rescu-
ed however in time to cheat the
undertaken.
Saddest however, of all the hap
penings on this blackest of black
Fridays was the accident to Gotta
ger. It is his custom to drink a
bowl of milk each eve before retir-
ing. It was dark when he felt
about in the pantry for his usual
draught. In about the same place
as usual, his hand found bowl.
stOf course it is the bowl of milk''
he thought, and he put it to his lips
and began to gulp down the con-
tents. It is a philosophical fact
that in drinking. the tasting appa-
ratus doesn't work until there has
been swallowing. It worked slow
eI than usual this time, and nearly
all the contents was down before
the brackish, sourish taste hit the
drinkers palate. What he had
swallowed was his wife hop yeast.
Made active by the heatof his stom-
ach, the yeast was rising, when the
wires went down, and the result OF
the incident is not known.
Notice to Contractors.