The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-09-12

men who was drowned, had most re-
narkable escape from death. lube
had awakened to find little yellow
dog, which he always carried with
him, barking furiously and as he
i jumped from his berth in the fireman's
4 quarters he found that the apartment
was filled with water. He made an
effort to awaken Kodey and was par
TALLY successful. The little dog re-
manned with his master and lube be-
! gan cropping about in the darkness in
hopes of finding the door to the apart
ment which had been left open, but
he was unsuccessful. With the ami
NAL instinct the little dog found the
way out and led his master through
an open window. The other man
failed to follow the lead of the dog
and fell back in his berth overcome by
the flood of water. He was found
there ar hour later by the members
of the life saving crew.
buchanan and Ryder managed to
find their way from the vessel with
out the aid of the crew and they aided
materially in the recovery of the
bodies of the drowned men. Frank
Mauksch, the cook, had been all but
forgotten in the efforts to get out the
! other men, but finally the life savers
discovered that he was missing and
party was sent into the sunken boat
Ito search for him. He was found
clinging to his berth. He was ex-
hausted but revived shortly after he
was taken to the station.
After the living had been taken
from the wreck of the boat the life
savers returned to search for the
dead and the remains of, the two men
were found wedged in between the
windows of the apartments in which
they had been sleeping. The awful
appearance of the apartments showed
the struggle that the men had made
to save themselves from death but it
was avain struggle for the rooms were
filled with water and the men were
left without any way of escape.
1 Miller had finally foated into the
port hole from which the captain had
been rescued and the rush of the
water had so wedged in his dead
body that it was necessary to cut it
out with an ak. The remains of
Kodey were found near the spot where
the faithful dog of lube had pointed
the way to safety and it is Thought
that he made an effort to reach the
window when his strength giving out
he fell back into the muddy.water and
was strangled.
In an interview Captain Mooney
told the whole story of the disaster.
i He said:
eve had pulled into Kenosha at
six O'Clock Monday night to wait till
today to go to Milwaukee with
the cargo of sands and Miller and I
turned in about half past nine. Just
before we retired for the night we
syphoned out the boat and she was
as dry as it was possible to make her.
| was not sleeping and seemed to have
presenting that all was not we'll and
at midnight got up andsmade trip
about the boat, but all the men were
III lI1ClA OCQS csuO lICIC was no sign OF
) any thing out of the way. Along in
the early morning I was thrown from
my bed and it seemed as if TIE boat
J rolled over. | reached over and got
hold of Gus Miller, who was sleeping
) with me, and he was already awake
She must have sprung leak I
shouted to Miller, and with that both
of US started for the door of the room.
The boat had turned on her side and
instead of reaching the door I found
the port-hole,1 I managed to break i
open and stuck my head out and be-
gan to cry for help. turned round
TO encourage Miller and managed to
4 get him by the hand. Miller said:
Captain, J can't hold on any longer, ;
and I shouted back to him, hold on,
Gus, they are coming for as now I
felt the fellow slip away from me and
: reached down to get him and my
: head began to swim and ] did not
! know what happened until I was
J brought to the station. Kodey must
} have drowned like d rat in a trap for
there was little chance for him to have
escaped. That dog of zube's was the
hero of that end of the boat and had
5 it not been for the dog the men would
; have both shared the fate of Kodey.