The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-09-19


over PERCEPTIONS cliff some two or
three hundred feet, and would not
have been alive to tell the tale.
Hyades to Load Sugar.
Tomorrow the Hyades will 90 to
the Matson wharf to take on sugar.
Belle Of ireland to Sail.
The Belle of Ireland will have COM
pleted discharging her cargo of coal
and will be in shape to sail tomorrow
at two o'clock for Newcastle, carrying
mail for the Colonies.
Crown of CASTLE.
The Crown of CASTLE will sail on
Thursday for San Pedro. Captain
Smith of the Crown says that the last
visit he made to this port was twenty
six years ago, and that times are not
what they used to be in the good old
days.
Navajo for Target Practice.
The U. S. Tug Navajo left at $40
this morning for the purpose of tow
! ing the targets for the target practice
off Diamond Head. Tomorrow after
noon she will perform the same duty.
W. J. Patterson OFF Marine Railway.
The schooner w. ]. Patterson left
the marine railway at an early hour
this morning and then underwent
fumigation, preparatory to sailing for
Port Ludlow. She will sail this after
noon for that port to load lumber for
Honolulu.
Seamens' Terrible Experience.
NEW YORK, August S1.-Aboard
the Clyde Line steamship Mohawk,
which arrived here this morning,
were ten seamen who had been
snatched from death in the gale that
recently battered the South Atlantic
coast. They were rescued Tuesday
morning from the crumbling hulk of
schooner Malcolm B. Seavey,
which the sea was pounding to pieces
on a reef off Georgetown, S. c.
One of the men had no memory Of
the happenings of the last few hours,
for after Captain Dodge, of the little
| coastwise vessel had ordered himself
dashed to the mast he was dragged
inertly through the seas to the deck
of the rescuing ship, oblivious to his
surroundings and thinking only of the
last appeal to his men that he be al
| lowed to go down with his ship.
AS the Mohawk fought her way out
Of Charleston Harbor her crew bat
tened down the matches and made
! ready for steady fight into the heart
Of the hurricane After a few miles
Of steaming she passed the Comanche,
also standing out to sea. Huge waves
| broke over both vessels, but they
we're staunch and had nothing to fear
from the blow. Soon the wireless on
the Comanche flashed the Mohawk
this terse message:
"Four-masted schooner on reef
seven miles off Georgetown. Needs
help badly"
Instantly the Mohawk's skipper
changed his course. Soon he reached
the reef and found a schooner over
which the surf was breaking. There
We're men in the rigging apparently,
and it seemed only a question of min
utes before the windjammer would go
to pieces. Captain Kemble, of che
Mohawk, worked his ship into within
300 yards, for he dared no go closer.
and made out through his glasses a
man dashed to the mainmast and 9TH
ers in the shrouds.
Two masts had been broken off
short, and it became apparent that
the work of rescue would have to be
done in hurry. The ship hung upon
the crest of the reef, swayed this way
and that by the big seas, and her bow
high in air, swung with the gale. It
was Captain Dodge, of the coaster.
who had been lsshed to the mast. He
had lost his reason, but the Mohawk's
crew did not know that at the mo-
ut.
Captain Kemble called for volun-
teers, and ordered away the small
boat. Cole, the first officer, worked
her to within fifty yards of the wreck.
and then saw that if he went in
closer he and his men would be in
Yolved in the destruction of the
schooner. Standing up in the stern
OF the plunging lifeboat, he called to,
the crew of the coaster to jump into,
the sea- Captain Dodge, by this time
dellrious' cried out that he would 20.
down with his ship, but his men, be,
fore they took the leap into the sea-,
made a lifeline fast To him and o,,4