The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-07-24


been caught in their little dories when
the storm broke. whittier went the
trawler or what became OF the crew
viii never be known. for when the
gale subsidized there was nothing TO tell
the tale. Undoubtedly the trawier. the
dories and the forty-three men suf-
fered a common fate-death.
Now and then a vessel reaches port
and reports having passed somewhere
on the banks the upturned hull Of
/ what was Enthusiastically Yankee
fishing schooner and not a trace Of
her crew. There is hardly a day but
what broken dories are sighted drift
| ing aimlessly upon the sea.
Now and then when the vessel
| passes close by a drifting dory human
| forms are seen crouching upon the
bottom. Not infrequently the unfor-
Inmates I'm the little boats are beyond
human aid, although there are nu-
| merQus instances in which the men
yet have within their breasts sparks
OF life that are famed back. and they
live to add to the many strange stories
| Of escaping the Grim Reaper.
That more Of these ddrymen DO not
perish is the wonder, for they. Of all
| others. dare far more. In pairs they
leave their schooner in their little
craft that are not more than sixteen
feet long. and. laden with their fish
ing gear. they scatter. forming a cir
Gle Of from two 70 three miles in cir
| conference.
When the indications are that the
weather will be good then every man
| that can be spared is sent out i'm the
dories. for a quick dash means quick
return and compensation in proper
| ton. Under such circumstances but
| two men. the captain and the cook. re-
| main on the schooner. Before the crew
! leaves the Schooner is put under short
| canvas. usually jib and riding sail.
and the skipper and the cook work
her slowly to and fro, Keeping as
close to the dories as they can without
/ interfering with the schools OF fish.
II often happens that. without more
| than a few minutes warning. a fog
enshrouds the ocean. cutting off all
| view of the dorymen. who. even at
| that moment are frantically rowing
I toward their vessel. having hastily
pulled I'm or abandoned their gear.
Should there be but little wind the
| dorymen experience scarcely any diff
ficulty in reaching their boat. for the
fog horn acts as a guide. Now and
then. however. the fog is accompanied
by hard blow. and then the schoon-
| err. despite the efforts of the two men
I on board. is driven away and the dOry-
men are left to get along as best
they can
When there is a large fleet upon the
banks and such a thing occurs the
dorymen make for the nearest schoon-
| er. regardless Of whether they belong
to her or not. Fish and everything
else are forgotten for the time being.
/ for human lives are at stake. When
| the gale subsidies and the widely scat
tered fleet again assemblies there is an
exchange OF crews. an exchange OF
! congratulations and sorrowful words
for those who are missing.
There are many strange stories Of
the experiences Of these dOrymcn. In
a hard gale and a fog two brothers
named Fleming were unable TO reach
/ a schooner. and they were adrift thfr-
teen days without food or water.
When they were picked up by the
crew Of a scotch bark they we're un-
conscious and badly frozen. yet they
lived TO be landed at Quebec. where
they were sent to a hospital and their
limbs were taken off below their
knees. The men are yet alive.
Another dOrymau and his mate.
after being adrift five days and suf-
fering unmentionable agonies from
hunger and thirst. were picked up by
a sailing vessel bound for Labrador.
Two weeks later the men were landed.
but they had to wait nearly a month
I
to Gloucester. In all. they were alb
sent nearly two months; in the mean
time their vessel had reported them
as lost and their relatives had gone
into mourning for them That the
relatives were surprised at seeing
them goes without saying.
A dOryman OF a Boston schooner
had even a greater absence from
home. He was only adrift two days
"a
ferred the sea to suffering, jumped
overheard. The next day the survivor
was picked up by a lunmber-laden
bark en- route for Buenos Ayres The
bark was four months making the
trip, and in all that time the fisher
man had no means OF communicating
with his people. Imagine their sur
prise when a cablcgram from South
America informed them that their
relative was alive and wei.
But when fogs obscure the water II
Is not alone the doryman who Is in
danger. The schooner itself is in the
gravest peril OF being run down by
some great steamer hurrying through
the mist. eager TO reach port and risk
ing collision with whatever might be
ia It's way The colliding Of this
French liner Ia Burgoyne and the
British sail ship Cromartyshire. i'm a
fog on the banks in July 4, 1898. was
one the greatest horrors Of that awful
place. Five hundred and sixty lives
was the cost Of that accident
But while such a catastrophe might
excite the world. the cutting down Of
a fishing smack by a great liner passes
almost unnoticed: indeed. a few years
ago such things were 50 common that
the RAINING down OF a fisherman was
regarded as a joke by a certain class
OF steamship masters. To has been de-
clared by the fishermen that there
! have been steamship captains that
have not only failed to stop after cut
ting down a smack. but have ordered