New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-25

her carrying him over on its crest AS he came
10 the surface the schooner was knocked her
beam ends and the crosstrees Of the foremost were
within reach. He seized them and was saved
He found the clinging to the weather
shrouds. but he got them the slanttng deck
and worked the pump until she rishted-
From another schooner OF the fishing feet. it Is
asserted. three OF the crew swept overheard
by one wave and back to the deck with return
mountain Of water This has happened time and
again. and is one OF the most persistent miracles
OF the sea
The third story is that OF Captain Robert J.
Walton. IT. OF the co1sttng schooner De Mory
Gray. and his bride. the daughter Of a Jersey
farmer who had hardly seen the before she
embarked on this exciting voyage 10 Philadelphia
The storm struck the coaster while she was on
Winter Quarter ShOaI carried away her Hfeboats
and tore her headsails to ribbons The crew
dashed themselves to the rigging The cook and
the captain took Mrs. Walton into the mizzcn
crosStrees. and there for hour they held her
fast though uncounted combers smashed against
them Their bodies bruised and hands cut
The masts Of the Gray were parallel with the
seas which roared and looked SO much Ike break
ers that the captain thought he had struck the
coast Suddenly the gale shifted to an ofshors
quarter and the schooner scudded toward Long
Island under bare poles.
From the earliest times mariners have written
about their experiences tr storms at sea and told
OF wonderful deIiverances. Here is a quaint tale
OF the Duke Of Cumberland's cruise TO Porto Rico
in the scOurge OF Malice. IN the year 1851:
This wtnde was taken for the beginning Of the
StOrrne, and the SLOrme tt3eie was looked fors
which came indeed about the shutting IN OF ths
day, with such fIrts and rage, as none could say
doubt that never heard any Winde 50 high II the
shippe had not been SC sxeeediHg s{C 1 sIaSd
for oftentiTnes the sea would snip IN Wavss inIo
shippe being leakie within bOardl falling often.
much both the pumps were aoe % S-tss
and TN Noone the next day were never thorough
ly suckt- &. en-. u,,,sr,,- ,,.l1
furied and Yet the Storne had caught it. and with
such violence and fury rent y, ul4S VII n~ ~
adoe the Missen-Yard was hailed 90N T anu a 20
the Quarter Decke and Poope saved rom danseE
cesse OF violence I'LL Micnga., sl- 49, 81 ~
her somewhat; but then began me eHsct o. 8 LtS
10 worl1e and swell fare higher than before His
Lordship's Shippe Is very E9cdLy on, 1ilo 49, 49,
vast Mountaines Of water; so that Man an, might
leave the Jest OF the verse su ss ybIcb
was over heads our ProsPect any OIner ~
1890 hiSher than our Nayne Top; and that
which is strangest round e6out US, Lor me , Se.
tba moore shppe nor they that directed and
cunued her could not tel nov % CoI -. -. mon
sre from the breaking OF these VAst waves uPO"
her.
Could anything seem more lInpronaoie nan nan
the experience and miraculous escape IrOiu 80
Of Captain EngeIIandt OF the German I.on 7A-----9
sbfn Erndte? Yet there IS no doubt OF It's soso-
lutte truth -,
The Erndte left Mcneil On April 10 As' Win
cargo Of timber and straigatway ran into stor'n
which kent her crew OF four men busy night anu
dav On An-u IS the captain. worn cut with
,D, watch retired 10 the cabin. shutting the tooT
gotIv behind him. Almost without warning me
vss.sI was struck By huge sea and turned
.,,-+1a The crew were swept away and drowned
I'D m. CAPTAIN left imprisoned in the shlPs hu-I'
,na Patches having been tightly closed oy she
PRESSURE CO the water 49,,
rbA strange wreck drffted keel upDer:=-Sst until
.s1 N xrhAn II was sigated by the Norwegian
+aar,sbfn Aurora OF the fishing village OF XIX
80, The steamship proceeded 20 secure the
$40 ard while thus engaged the crew heard re-
s,e5 knocks from the inside against the iron
ho.+oro Their. was a nOiEe, too. which resemoled
= ,,,,47ad human voice crying fer help.
. hole was drilled IN the iron plates ard Cap
- r,rqsllandt struck out his finger
.lr,-s baer, doing very well In here. he announced
o. tbe wondering sailors. but I'm out Of fresh
,r.,a- FOR twsnty-fOur hours. For heavens sake
uour me q drink
They poured water through the hoie and asked
= he needed food Cor T. imDcssibie Tor tne
Nccr,yegtan's artincers 70 make hole IL The IRON
bottom large enough TO permit the mans liberia
ton He needed nothing but watsr, SO they started