The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1907-12-27

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THE RESCUE OF ATWATER.
The Corinthian was ninety-four
ton gasolene schooner, carrying
crew of twelve men, including her
captain, L. E. Atwater, and hailing
from Eureka, Cal. The disaster
which involved the loss of two mem
oers of the crew occurred on June
IL, 1906, the schooner having strand
I'd at about p. m. of that day on the
western side of the peninsula sepa-
rating Humboldt Bay from the
ocean, two or three hundred yards
off shore and three miles northward
IF the Humboldt Bay life saving sta
lion.
Nine trips with the buoy brought
IN eight men without mishap, the
buoy having been hauled up empty
once through a misunderstanding of
signals. Only the captain now re-
NAMED on board. The darkness had
since the arrival of the station crew
become so great that objects on the
ship could not be made out from
The shore, and rescue operations had
to be carried on altogether by signals.
When the buoy came back empty
It was again quickly sent! out. but
while the. men on the beach stood
waiting for the word to haul in the
hawser parted and the whipline also
came in, parted and without the tail
block. Four men were despatched
for another shotline. whipline and
shots. While waiting for the extra
material those who had remained
abreast of the wreck cleared up the
tangle Of hawser, tackle and whip
line under the keepers directio
and made everything ready for send
ing out another line. The fourth
shot carried the line across the YES
sells springstay. After several at
tempts Captain Atwater got the tall
olock aboard and secured it, and the
breeches buoy was then hauled out
without the hawser and with the
traveller block detached. The CAP
tain got into the buoy and gave the
signal to pull away, but in crossing
the rail he was swept out and thrown
headlong into the surf. Luckily be-
fore the seas could wash him away
from the vessel he SWAIN around to
the schooner's bow and got hold OF
the bobstay, to which fortunate cir
cumstance he doubtless owed his life.
The keeper did not suspect tina.
anything had gone wrong with Cap
tain Atwater until the buoy had been
hauled in empty. AS he had distinct
ly heard the captains signal he
Judged that he had placed himself in
the buoy all right but that accident
had befallen him after leaving ship.
This meant that he was somewhere
overheard. The buoy was sent out
again, however, and Mclean and
Surfmen Hunt and Nickerson fol-
lowed it on the heels of an outgoing
wave. Mclean was first to the
schooner, and located Atwater by the
sound of his voice. Mclean quickly
caught up a blight of the whipline
that swept within reach and dexter
ously swung it to the man on the
bobstay. The latter fastened the line
around his arm and let go the bob
stay, and Mclean shouted to those on
| the beach to haul in. By this time
| the two surfmen had reached the
| spot where Mclean stood, and all
| three of the rescuers, knowing that
they could not retreat quick enough
| to escape an incoming sea, laid hold
/ of the line. They were none too soon.
| In another moment wall of water
| rushed upon them, bore them down,
| buried them and with relentless
force flung them shoreward. In the
course of their journey they We're
ruthlessly beaten against floating
| timbers and other wreckage which
| the sea had torn from the schooner
but through it all they clung despe,
rately to the line, Mclean and the
surfmen in a bunch and Captain At.
water a few feet further along be.
hind When the call came to haul
in the men on the beach bent to the
work with a will, and soon the foul
men were pulled out of the water
"like so many fish hooked through
the gills,'' as Keeper Hennig ex
presses in his report of the wreck
From the report of the United
States Life Saving Service.
HORRIBLE FIGHT TO A FINISH
Ten thousand persons recently wit
| messed the most cruel exhibition thai
has been presented to the border: hab
flutes Of the bull. rings for the pas
| seven years, at the arena at C1udaG
| Juarez, Mexico Seven years age
! there was battle between a lion an
| a bull in which the lion tore the bui
to shreds and roared victoriously al
the quivering bloody flesh of the van
duished beast.
To-day a buffalo from the plains ot
North Dakota battled with fierce
long horned bull from the TerraZa:
| ranch in Chihuahua and both are
| dead. 1t was the worst battle thai
| has ever been seen. The animal:
were evenly matched and they fought
until both dropped in their tracks.
Their bodies were practically
! ripped to pieces and Their entrail:
| were dragging in the dust OF the
| arena. 1t was battle that recalled
, the tales of the Coliseum at Rome IL
the time of the Caesars, and strong
men sickened at the sight. Men ac
customed, week after week, to SCI
mataders dispatch bull after bull, bu
unaccustomed to such sight as the.
saw this afternoon became as women
! They were many visiting womel
among the crowd to-day and the.
were taken from the ring in an un
conscious condition at the sight of th
awful conflict; men turned their face
away.
The animals were goaded to flgh
by. bull ring employees, who pricke'
and speared them until they wer
angry enough to fight anything
Then as each animal rushed at tn
other there was a yell from tn