The Green Forest tribune., 1912-06-07

recognized by those on shore Surfman Pot ter leaped to his assistance, only to be himself unfooted and flung a floating mass of drift. AS he lay there struggling to get to his feet the lire suddenly tautened in the current and falling across his breast held him pinoned under water. For fully minute he lay there helpless in sight of his comrades and slowly drowning. At last, nearly dead, wave washed him free.
 Meantime of the two sailors torn from his hold on the rope and washed ashore scious. Surfman Ferguson went for the other and brought him in. Surfman Lockwood rescued the fourth man.
 And so, one by one, in grim hand-to-hand bat with the storm, the crew of the wrecked brig were rescued Hours later she was boarded in the surfboat. In the cabin, lying in his bunk, a pistol bullet through his head, they found the captain. He had been part owner of the vessel, and when he had seen that she lost, he had gone below, scrawled a note in Spanish saying he was ruined. and shot himself
 While the of Station No. battling at these two wrecks, those of Station No. rescuing seven men and the captains wife from the three-masted schooner Stephen Harding. While five miles off shore the Harding had been in collision with the schooner Kate Newman, which had gone down with all hands, save one man, who, the vessels together leaped the bulwarks of the Newman to the deck of the Harding.
 At the same time Stations Nos. il and F waging of the grimmest and gamest fights against masterful odds in the history of the service
 This struggle was at the wreck of the schooner George Taulane. The night before the big storm she off Navesnk running steadily in the growing wind An hour found the shutting thick the rim of the sea, and the gale in- creased to hurricane. It was two in the morn ing when the craft found herself in distress. At that hour the deck load of lumber, piled high, broke loose. The terrific roll of the schooner in the high sent huge timbers tumblng about her decks, making it almost impossible for the crew to stay above hatches Twenty minutes later fire was discovered on board. Flames shot aft from the forecastle, igniting the deck load,
 With her progress somewhat arrested toward shore by the dragging anchors, the Tauane be- gan drifting parallel to the shore, getting in close it very slowly. At this time she dscov- cred by the life savers of Station No. Il.
 This crew. leaving beach apparatus behind and knowing that lifeboat could live in the breakers, followed the craft as she drifted along the coast, calculating that she would ground near Station No. 12 and depending on that station for apparatus. Shortly afterward the wreck by Keeper Chadwick of Station 12, who ordered out his crew with beach cart and gun.
 At this time the vessel was about halfway be- tween the two stations. On one side the of Station Il were following her along the beach; the other the crew of No. 12 were coming in to meet her.
 It was between nine and ten o'clock when the two met. The horses that had started with the beach cart of the from Station 12 had refused to ford the sluices between the hills and had been left behind, the dragging the cart themselves. The helpless Taulane was then still holding off the bar by her dragging anchors, and still drifting along shore. The two lifesav- ing crews now joined forces in strange and ter ribe battle
 The vessel 400 yards off shore, her in her rigging, the seas breaking and tumbng white all over her hull But she was still moving, steadily, surely, alongshore her keel free of the sand.
 The life savers at once placed the surf gun and line which fired fell the Tau lane out of reach of her shipwrecked crew. Be fore another could be fired the vessel had drifted southward out of range.
 Loading the gun and apparatus into the beach cart, the two life-savng crews started after her alongshore. laborng manfully in the sand and flooded sluices to keep pace with the drift of the vessel to leeward. In order to do this they were obliged to proceed at what was almost run. After twenty minutes of breathess work they were again opposite her, the gun planted and another shot fred
 At this portion of the beach the sand dunes were low. and the only point of vantage from which the gun could be shot the top of the knolls. The knoll on which the effort made in indentation in the shore making it farther from the vessel and, the line being wet and heavy, it failed to reach the Taulane.
 Once more the crews of Stations II and 12 loaded the heavy beach cart and staggered on after the fast drifting schooner As the chase led to the south, the conditions on the beach became worse. The surf washed in higher the sluices became more numerous, and the dry sand dune tops further separated
 The next dry hill 400 yards farther on