The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-11
STIRRING STORY OF
 HEROISM FROM THE SEA
LONE GREEK RISKS HIS LITE WHEN ALI OTHERS
 REFUSE.

Nm Fierce Northeast Gale Of MOntauk
 Point He Puts Away From the Tug
 Walter A. Luckenbach, in Small
 Boat, to the Sinking Barge Buena
 Ventura--Rescues Captain, Whom He
 Finds Frozen to TOpmast-ROws Him
 to the Tug and Then Returns and
 Saves Seaman Frozen to Floating
 Hatch-Three Others Drowned.
 Providence, R. L, Dec. IDA tale of heroism seldom surpassed was brought to this port to-day by the tug Walter IA. Luckenbach. When every other man on board the tug declined to risk his life in an effort to rescue two men on the laundering barge Buena Ventura, which was in tow of the Luckenbach, Mitchell B. Bruso, Greek seaman, stepped up to Captain John Daley, and said that he would make the trip alone In small boat, at the height of fierce northeast gale, Bruso rowed to the Owarsond, whom he found frozen to the topmast, and as soon as he had placed the helpless captain on board the tug, without moments rest, and covered with a coating of ice from head to foot, put out again on the heaving water, and released Seaman Charles Martin, who was frozen to floating hatch on which he had been carried away from the sinking barge. These two men of a crew of five were the only ones to es- cape death. The drowned were
 s. Peterson, engineer, address un- known; John Mallett, deck hand, ad- dress unknown; deck hand, known as Jack, home in Fall River, Mass
 The heroisin of Bruso was looked up on by his shipmates as no less remark little boat, which every moment seem ed likely to hs swamped by the mo- mentous seas.
 The barge from which three men met death was, before being converted forI the coal carrying trade, 8 Spanish tramp steamer She was the first prizeI of the United States navy immediately after the war with Spain brokeout, thel gunboat Nashville capturing her while she was bound for Cuban ports.
 The Buena Ventura, coal laden, was the last of tow of three barges which left Norfolk, Va, in tow of the Luck enbach. The other barges, similarly loaded were the Carrie Clark and thel Annie H. Smith After comparatively fair weather the tug and her tow met a storm off the New Jersey coast. On Thursday terrific gale with a vicious sea and a temperature which meant frost bites for the crews, had develop | ed, but Captain Daley had made steady | progress. He was off Montauk Point last Friday morning when he discovered that the Buena Ventura, which at times he had been unableto see, was wallow- ing in the sea, and in imminent danger of plunging beneath the waves. She was flying a distress signal. Immedi- ately the captain cut adrift the two foremost barges, and steamed at full speed toward the endangered vessel. Even as he raced back at top speed the captain saw huge wave board the barge, and a moment later she was sinking. Captain Owarsond rushed from the wheel house and climbed the fore mast, and lashed himself securely to the rigging in the crows nest. At al- most the same moment the watchers on board the tug saw a man go over board. Almost immediately he pulled himself on board floating hatch. As the tug neared the sunken barge only the topmast, to which the captain was fastened was out of the water. Wave after wave washed over the helpless man, and the crew of the tug was hor- rified to see a coating of ice form about the man and mast. The ice made the man a prisoner more effectively than did the ropes which bound him.
 Captan Daley assembled his crew and called for volunteers to man a boat and go to the assistance of their fellow sea- man. But one man responded to the call He was Mitchell B. Bruso, a Greek, and a deck hand on the tug,
 After thrilling battle with the great seas Bruso soon had his boat so close to the imprisoned captain that he drop ped his oars and caught the spar to which OWarsond was lashed. Twice Bruso nearly upset his boat in his at- tempts to free the captain. He at last succeeded in loosing him from the mast. Bruso put Captain Owarsond into the bottom of the boat, and started back for the tug as though his own life de- pended on the speed he made Con- sfdering the difficulties with which he had to contend the oarsman covered the distance in a remarkably short space of time. It was while Bruso was thus rowing at top speed that he dis covered Seaman Martin half clinging, half frozen to a hatch cover Shouting a word of encouragement to the man he continued on his way, and no sooner had Captain Owarsond been lifted on board than he pushed away again.
 Bruso's second rescue was even more difficult than his first. The hatch cover was tossing like a cork, as was the boat, and collison of the two would mean death for both men. But with the same skill which marked his first trip Bruso managed to get alongside. He leaned over the side of the boat and lifted Martin in, and after another bat tie against the waves placed him on board the tug.
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