The Green Forest tribune., 1912-06-07

 impossible After twenty minutes of grim effort it was finally gained only to find that the vessel had passed it and was drifting on
 Perhaps the best account of the remainder of the terrible march to its ultimate end is given in the report of the service of 1880, which says of it:
 From first to last the difficulties of the life savers and the perils which beset them never sackened a moment. The wheels of the cart, in coast phrase, sanded down so rapidly-that is sank so quickly in the infltrated so-that the conveyance had to be kept the move lest it should be lost. Often the cart had to be partial ly unloaded and portions of the apparatus car red by the crews to tighten 1t sufficiently to make progress possible, and at other times the men would have to fling themselves upon the wheels and hold them with all their strength to prevent the cart from being capsized by the inequalities of the submerged ground the overwhelming inburst of the rushing high over the axles
 "The escapes numerous It was with great difficulty that the men could keep their feet in this constant onslaught and pelting of drift wood. But not man fell away or finched from the work before him.
 Not the least difficult of their tasks that of keeping the lines, and especially the guns and powder, dry in the universal drench around them, and it is difficult to understand how they con- trived it; for, aside from the number of actual firings, wherever a momentary pause of the yes sel she grazed bottom, slowing of her
 
 dozen times, and probably more, the cart was hurriedly unloaded on the nearest eminence, the gun planted and the shot-line arranged for the effort when the wreck would suddenly roll away upon her course and the men would have to re- load the cart and toll again after her. In this way and with these interruptions, they worked down along the beach to station No. 12 and a quarter of a mile beyond it, when chance of fered for another shot; but the line parted. The crew again moved stubbornly on. It was now 4l,. 1,ay,e ing in the rigging fell into the and was gone. The still followed the vessel with unslack- ened activity Half an hour later they saw an- other drop lifeess from the ratlines.
 "Laboring forward now for the rescue of the re maining five, they suffered misfortune. In stag gering and foundering through one of the worst sluiceways with the cart the gun topped off into the flood and lost. desperate search was made at once, and finally it found in four or five feet of water. fshed up and wiped dry, and carried thenceforth by the stout keeper on his shoulder. dispatched back to No. 12 for a dry shot-line, while the crew. moved on to a point three-quarters of a mile below the sta tion, where they got another chance to fire 8 shot, which, however, fell short, the tide having forced the firing party farther and farther back the hills they advanced, and the line, too, being weighted with moisture.
 "The cart was again reloaded and the march resumed. mile below the station the man over took them with the dry shot-ine and, chance of fering, the last shot fired. This time it was a success The line flew between the foremast and the jib-stay, and, the cut sweeping the blight of the line in to the side of the vessel the sailors got hold of it and fastened 1t to the fore and main rigging.
 "As the schooner still continued to drift and roll nothing could yet be done, but while the greater part of the force loaded up the cart and trudged with it, three four kept fast hold of the shore end of the shot-line, and kept pace he in ha another quarter of mile the vessel suddenly struck the tide setting north stopped, swung head ofshore and worked back to her anchors under the comb of the breakers. The time had come at last; and the whip-ne, with its appurtenances was bent to the shot-ine, hauled aboard, and made fast by the tail of the block to the mainmast head.
 The wreck now slued around broadsde to the sea and rolled frightfully. The hawser followed the ,whip-line board, and the breeches-buoy rigged on but the vessel rolled so that it impossible to set the haWser up on shore in the usual manner, so it was rove through the bullseye in the sand-anchor, while several men held to the end to give and take with each roll of the vessel. The work of hauling the sailors from the wreck was now begun with electric en- ergy. After two men were landed, the vessel took the ground but the circumstances increased rather than diminished her rolling, and some con ception of this powerful motion may be derived from the fact that in one instance the brooches buoy with a man in it swung in the off-shore roll fully fifty feet in the air
 The strain and friction upon the hawser were so great that the lignum-vitae bull's-eye through which it ran at the sandanchor despite the hard ness. of the wood, worn fully half an inch deep during 30 minutes of Within those 30 minutes, however the five safely land ed, the last getting out of the buoy at half past two"
 And so closes the story of that which in the department at Washington is spoken of casually as "A nights work on the Jersey coast"