The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-03

WeSter, he runs ana hlOeS Denlnd the
tsove But if there's a wreck, and he
sees us taking out the beach apparatus.
no matter If it's blowing a gale and the
rain cuts like a knife, Nipsy follows and
works with me.
"Nipsy has done a good many bright
things but the best thing he ever did
was to save a life two years ago last
August, when a coal soller, bound for
down east from the Delaware capes, foun-
dered several hundred yards off shore.
We launched the surf boat and made for
her as soon as we saw her and just be-
fore she went under, a big wave broke
over the ship and washed the crew Of four
overheard.
1T was stiff work, but somehow We
managed to pull three men from the sea
before they'd shipped enough water to
drown EN- The fourth was nowhere
to be seen, and, after looking around for
a while, We gave him up for lost and
headed for the shore.
when we landed Nipsy was running
up and down the beach, where he knew
we'd come ashore barking like all pos
sessed. He jumped all around me- near
~ knocking me over, and between jumps
he'd run eastward on the beach. as II
he wanted me to go Will him Finally,
/ said to myself, 'Nipsy's found some
thing; and maybe it's the missing sail
or 1 said, just fer something to say.
Well. anyway, I humored the dog ana
followed him, and he ran about five hum
bred yards down the beach and stood still
and barked. Pretty soon l came up to
him, and-what do you think l saw lying
there in the sands? My nephew.
''Nipsy took me TO join him just in
time so We saved his life. He was the
missing man from the sollier, and he
had been tossed ashore by the break
ers''
PATROL DUTY IN A BLIZZARD.
Carter looked at the clock
Almost O'clock" he said. 'Rudd.
well be on patrol in a few minutes and
won't be back before midnight. so speak
up before we go.
"Yes-yes" John W. Rudd. No. ?, draw
ingly responded in Long Island verAacu-
lar. and then continued:
Il started out for patrol duty on the
first night Of the SIS blizzard. 1t is only
a matter of fifty or sixty yards to the
beach from the station house. but the
snow was so binding and the wind so
high that it took me fifteen minutes
to reach the beach. Then headed for the
patrol house about mile TO the west
ward My idea was TO get there and
stay there Because that's allowable in
such weather.
Il thought I'd never reach that house.
] fought against the wind until | was
almost ready to drop, and the only thing
that kept me up at the end was the
thought that I'd freeze If j didn't hold
out. The snow kept me from seeing
ahead couldn't have seen the captain
# he'G been walking alongside of me.
/ feared all the time that I'd go past
the box because l knew the lamp light
wouldn't be visible. So. when ] thought
I'd almost reached it. | stuck my arms
out in the front as far as l could and
walked that way until they ached so
thought l couldn't keep them up any
longer And then kerplunk, went a fist
against the patrol box.
Guess how long I'd been covering the
mile?" Rudd was fastening his SOU
wester under his chin. Just two hours.
he said. as he slung coston signal over
his shoulder and opened the door. Yes
yes"
THE TALE OF AN ENGLISH FRIGATE
James c. Smith. No. 5. TO whose lot
fell the replenishing of the wood fire.
smoke up as he clattrered the stove lid
back into place:
Don't know why. but I'm reminded Of
a yarn that I heard at a Cape Cod sta
ton a few years back.
Seems that an English Frigate was
wrecked of the beach, where the station
Is 200 years ago. One day four or five
years ago the hull Of vessel all at
once stuck itself above the water in full
sight of the station. and musket and pis-
tol butts. like those used before the Revo-
luton. and old style woodkord was
thrown up on shore.
It's the hull of the English frigate
7 thrown up out Of the quicksands the
life savers said; and then they sent word
to the people in the village.
They came trooping down to the beach
and began putting out TO the wreck. in
hopes of securing the treasure that is
said to have gone down with the frigate.
But before the first boat was fairly un-
der way. and just as suddenly and ST.
lently as it had appeared. the hull sank
back into the qucksands. And it hasn't
been seen since.
HOW - LIFE SAVING CREW WAS
DROWNED.
"Yes-yes: and the crew OF that same
station-its the one closest 10 Highland
Light. lost their lives about fifteen years
ago spoke up George j Caffrey. surf
man No !. 1t happener in this way:
An Italian bark was blown over one
Of the bars and on TO the other The
crew shot out the line and few signals
and all that. but the Italians it turned
out. didn't know the first thing about
how to answer the signals and diIsn't
make fast the rope
when the captain saw that the ltal-
ians didn't know what 70 do. he and his
men launched the surf boat and pulled
out for the bark They reached her bow
and were Just making ready TO take OF
some Of the sailors when the boat got
caught in the terrible undeVtow that eN-
lists around the bar and was sucked IN
der Every mothers son OF them was
drowned like rats, And they went under
so SUDDENLY they didn't have time 10 make
q single shout for help
Two hours later the storm died down
enough to allow all the Italians 10 get
ashore with almost dry skins
Captain Penny. who has been at tho
Shinnecsek station fer seventeen Years.