Morris tribune., 1904-01-23
! The GRIP )
OF HONOR )
Cyrus OosvnSend Brady, ;
coey,gsI 1900. By ScRIBWER.S SONS (
Cyrus OosvnSend Brady,
1900. BY CHARLES scRIBwER.s SONS


going"
I 1t was unparalleled assurance, but i
! won. The two officers actually sue
ceeded in forcing the English prisoners
to man the pumps, where they worked
with a frantic energy born of their per
sistent daze of terror. This left the
regular crew of the ship free to fight
the fires and to do what they could
with the remaining guns. AS Jones
sprang back to the quarter deck, the
surgeon. covered with blood and APP
palled at the carnage, came running
toward him, crying:
''The ship is sinking, sir! The cock
pit is under water! l have no place
to stow the wounded. We must sur
renderv'
Strike! Strike" cried De Chamil-
lard, who was wounded. eve can do
DO moret'
what, gentlemen" cried Jones,
"would you have me strike to a drop
of water and bit of fire? Up. De
Chamillard! Here, doctor, help me get
this gun over
The surgeon hesitated, looked around
again, and, not liking the appearance
of things about him, turned and ran
below. Not to his station, for that
was under water. His mates had been
killed. He wandered up and down
was but little-for the wounded where
they lay Assisted by two or three of
the seamen. with his own hands Jones
dragged one of the 9 Founders from
the disengaged side of the deck across
to the starboard side to take the place
of a dismounted one; and, while the
heavy battery of the Scraps continued
it's unavailing fire below these three
small guns under his personal direc-
ton concentrated their fire upon the
mainmast of the Scraps. =.
The fortuito':S position Of the. Amer
leans in tie enemy's tops enabled them
to pour perfect rain of small arm fire
upon the spar deck Of the Serapis
with litt.. possibility of effective re
turn. Man after man was shot down
by the SIDE Of the intrepid Pearson.
who, wha.g"uT his other lack of quail
iica tons. showed that he possessed
ma gniicent personal courage. until he
remained practically alone upon the
deck-alone and as yet undaunted
1t is impossible to describe the scene.
1t is not within the power of words to
portray the situation. after over two
hours of the most frightful and deter
mined combat. No two ships were
ever in such condition. No battle that
was ever fought was like it. The
decks were covered with dead and dy-
ing. Bands of men in different direc-
tons were fighting the fires. The smoke
In lowering clouds hung heavily over
the ships, for the wind had died and
there was scarcely enough to blow it
away. The pale moonlight mingled
with the red glare from the flames
and threw an added touch of lurid
ghastliness trembling over the smoke
Wrapt sea. From below came the
steady roar of the Scraps guns, from
above the continuous cracking of the
Richards small arms. The noises
blended in hideous diapason of de-
struction which rose to an offended
hea ven in the horrd discOrd of an in
fernal region. The prisoners. still I'M
Ter the influence of their terror. toiled
ut the cIanking pumps. The water
gushed redly from the bleeding SOUP
Ders Order, tactics, discipline, had
oeen forgotten. Men glared with blood
shot eyes. set their teeth beneath foam
baked lips and fought where they stood
fought in frenzy against whatever
came to hand, whether it was the Eng
ish ship or the roaring flames or the
rushing waters. They rocked nothing
Of consequences. In their frantic bat
lie lust they beat upon the sides Of
the other ship with their bare hands
and bloody knuckles and knew not
what they did. Their breath came
quick and short The red of battle
vas before their vision. They had but
,ne thought-slay, KILL One would
nave said that the brute instinct was
lppermost in every heart. But in
est brute that wins, but the grea test
,oul and the one man who still pre-
,erved his caImness in this orgy Of
var was the man to win the battle
Jones. ~
The Alliance had repeated her pre-
7iouS performance, but the men had
,een worked to such a pitch that they T.,
never needed herr Many of them did
lot know of it. B0thA ships were
beaten. 1T was aIQuestionj
Is to which would realize it first. who
would first surrender. Nay, there was
,ut one possible finish = there was
10 question of jones' surrender under
my circumstances whatsoever. Pear
on would give up under some cOndi-
ions. and those had at last arrived
That was the essential difference be-4a
ween the two men. 1t was radical. ;faG
at'sltsF .-e, CONGRATULATIONS. r.. .tssc
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