The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-01-19

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-, IL. ,.=..- Ll-rs have a. Str.,,-
,,I,,. !, ,l,rr 1f &, as i4cir fellows along
r. - s,l5r,f- .s4lya-L even they VIII
k.so .s wa,-1 along me wreck-strewn
III T~9-h oi LaHE Island and he
Tba 7lr1f,.. s.-..ertf-rra a.. po~er, of en-
,i.,--1,,~,. ~ ,le s.r guard, IN time ~;
r.,;I i wei illustrate b., the work Of
the OTTAWA Point saxon. Lake Huron.
on Noyernber --,t za- 18th. 1889.
FarIy an ,he att1r13ou II the a-,h
C,n,ain Z T. U-E- hard signals Of -
- srt s,rr 1850 sr-furn to iuy,--,i-
s,,.e af-r~ king ten miles alone,
ibe beach. In .l1 Ire oi binding
snou, AMI ,leet storm, they found t,y1
scLoonrrs driven on reef about three
brndred yarf- # ,hr-e. While one Of
,be e,,-f,Trr, rf,r.7 ref on the beach and
b,;,, ire o. 'ar ,Hr shipwrecked know
thar sI,er5r wa -5Hiing. the other stag
pered hack o. tie .tltion and notified
the crew Of the work ahead.
II was folly to 'has Of rowing down
TO the rctt 4 len OF horses was
hastily praru-ci fTem 4 farmer. the life
boat and beach annafatus loaded in a
wagon. but before the horses had gone
far they played o.t. Another team was
secured and -re-creW walking. the trin
was renewed The burden proved too
heavy Tor the fla~ arinals and the life
boat had to be lcit brhind
Finally. The s-arr II the wreck was
reached. and whls part Of the crew
hot a line t. the s-hooners. the rest
went back for the boat This was
brought up after one man had been res
cued in the breccbes buoy, and then,
the schoouers showing signs OF breaking
up. the crew decided to use the life
boat. Twenty ti'ugs the seas bafiied
them in their attempt to launch it. ruth
lessly hurling them back on the sands
At last they g1t off-and rescued every
soul aboard just 4 f=w minutes before
The schooner went 10 pieces.
1t was well on toward morning OF
the 18th. The lie savers set about
finding food for rhe sailors. Some milk
and a little bread were obtained from
an isolated farm house. 1t was not suf-
fcient u O. arosHt; the crew forced
every mou;hful OF il on the rescued
Then the life savers compelled the sail
ors to get in the wagon and, the guards
walking alongside the journey through
the storm to the station was begun. 1t
was not till the 1t Of the 18th that
the station was reached. After making
the rescued comfortable, the crew went
back for the beach apparatus and the
boat; and il was only when these had
been brought in that food passed the
mouths OF these heroes of the surf for
the first time since they had left their
station to 60 to the rescue.
At the Lake View Beach Station,
Lake Huron. Captain Plough and his
crew. in 1901 from two to six O'Clock
Of morning rescued thirty-eight per
sons from the wrecks Of seven steamers
and srhoouers anil then spent all that
day saving property On stormy pitch
black night. SuTiuan Fred Hatch, of the
Cleveland station. leaped from the
main boom OF a submerged wreck TO the
mizzen shrouds and saved two lives
Captain Greisscr, Of the Buffalo sta
ton. in 1901, swan with line five hun
dred feet in a gale to the rescue of
man clingng 10 q ailing. This is one
Of the greatest swimming feats of mod
ern times. The surfmcn of several of
the Lake Superior stations frequently
patrol on all fours, the water forming
an ice coating a, it is driven on the
beach, thus making walking impossible.
And to add to the usual dangers that
fall to tie lot OF the life saver, the crews
along parts Of Lake 1pcrior's shore
have wolves. made desperate by hunger,
+ watch out for. More than one surf
man, while on his lonely patrol, has
been charged by wolf. its inborn fear
of the sea conquered by the gnawing at
Is stomach.
1t is not exag~eration to say that
wherever Uncle Sans life guard is
found, there is hero. When two vol
inteers were wanted to go to wreck
Il the brcechcs buoy cn the North Caro-
ina coast, all of the twcnty-one surf
ncn present volunteered, and each con-
ended with a much heat that he should
'e one Of the- two chosen. Before day
)rcak, in hurricane on the same coast,
>urfman Midget rescued ten persons,
one by one, at great peril to his own
ifc. And thus the tales # The service
night be multiplied ad infnitum.
No one who knows @ught OF the life
'aving man will dispute the words of
he poet;
Hes an angel dressed in oilskins. he's
a saint in a sou'wester
He as plucl,y as they make, or ever
can,
Hes hero born ane bred, but it hasn't
sweled his head,
And he's just The L. S. Comments
hired man"