The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1908-06-12
report.
"Any water coming IMP"

| MT. Nalker said he thought not.
Perhaps IL doesn't matter. Try TO
| get the first lifeboat lowered. Let her
| carry as many extra hands as possible.
| We have lost two boats. But do not
scn2 any women in her. II all is well,
lei tIe:.. 20 in the next one. Take
charge o" her yourself"
oCld you mind tying this hand
! ;r"gEief tightly just here. sir?"
The sCcond officer held out his left
forearm.
Were you knitted, too?" asked Cour-
tenay.
at is not much, but am losing
good deal Of blood"
THE brutes - the unreasonable
brutes!" muttered the captain. AS he
knotted the linen into rough tourni-
quet the other asked
"Shall report to you when the first
boat gets away, sir?"
mo need. l shall see what happens.
When she is clear shall bring the la
dies to you"
Pride Of race helped these men to
talk as collectedly as If the ship were
laid alongside a Thames wharf. They
knew not the instant the Kansas might
lift again and turn turtle, yet they did
not dream of deviating hairs breadth
from their duties. The second officer
went aft to carry out the captains
instructions. Courtenay followed lit
tie way, passing to leeward Of the
chart house until he reached his own
quarters. There was no door on that
side, but light streamed through cou-
pie of large portfolios across which the
curtains had not been drawn. He
looked in. Elsie was leaning against
the table to balance herself on the slop-
ing deck. She held Joey in her arms.
She seemed to be talking to the dog,
who answered in his own way by try
ing to lick her face. The glass was so
blurred that Courtenay could not see
that she was crying.
Better wait" he muttered and turn
ed his gaze seward again. Yes, there
could be no doubt that the almost I'M
broken swell within half cables
length Of the ship promised a posi-.
bility of escape. There was no tell
ing what dangers lay beyond. To his
reckoning, the nearest land was twen-
ty miles distant, but the shoal water
might extend all the way, and, with a
falling wind, waves once disintegrat-
ed would not regain any considerable
size. 1t was throw of the dice for
life, but it must be taken. He indulg-
ed in a momentary thought as to his
own course. Would he leave the ship
in the last boat? Yes. if every wound
ed man on board were taken off first,
and how could he entertain even a
shred Of hope that his cowardly crew
would preserve such discipline to the
end as to permit of that being done?
The answer to his mute question
came sooner than he expected. He
had been standing there alone about
five minutes, intently watching the set
of the sea, Sc as to determine the best
time for lowering boat. when, amid
the sustained Shrek of the wind and
the lashing of the spray, he heard
sounds which told him that the for
ward port lifeboat was being swung
outward on the davits. The hurricane
deck was mass of confused figures.
The two boats to starboard, lifeboat
and the jolly boat, had been carried
across the deck in readiness to take the
places of the port lifeboats. A lands
man might think that medley reigned
supreme, but it was not So Sailor
like work was proceeding with the ut
most speed and system when an acct
dent happened. For some reason new !
err ascertained, though it was believed
that the men in the leading boat were
too anxious to clear the falls and fail |
ed to take the proper precautions, the |
heavy craft pitched sternforemost in
to the sea. She sank like a stone, and |
with her went a number of Chileans. |
Their despairing yells, coming up from
the churning froth,, seemed to be
signal for the demoniac passions latent |
in the crew to burst forth again, this
time in a consuming blaze that would |
not be stayed. Each man fought blind
ly for himself, needless now of all re-
strictions.
The knowledge of this latest disaster
opTeuu VIII ulIldLlllS Iuplullys W
from the salon came rush of stew
ards and others. Overborne in the pan
c stricken flight. Gray. Tolemache,
the French count and the
head steward, not knowing what new
threatened, brought Mr..
Somervile and the almost inanimate
with them. leaving to their
ate those who like Boyle. were una
lie to move. Some of the mob rushed
p the bridge companion; others made
or the after ladders used only by sail
rs; others again swung themselves to
he spar deck by the rails and awning
tandards. Even before Courtenay
ould reach the scene both the second
nd third officers were stabbed, this
lme MORALLY. He saw one Of the in
uriated mutineers heave the third Of
GERS body overboard. a final quit
lnce for some injury previously re-
eived.
He emptied his revolver into the
mass of men, but he was
wept aside by the fresh gang from
he salon and perhaps owed his
voopo froy,, Instant 1aof h hv fotIipn |