The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1912-08-09

grasp on the ,unwaIo several tines disappeared
IN the mncstrom Of water. That left EMS anu
Rogers. blk and very strong man.
IN this desperate moment Rogers threw hla
arms around the othor SURNAME neck In dcnth'
grip. For moments. while the sea battered anu
tho fonm stranglcd them. they fought the lhht
grim fight Tor lifo Ellis TO break the grip OF nus
frcnted comrndc. Rogers to retain t. Suddenly.
when II seemed that both must drown. Rogers
strength left him. His arms relaxed. HIS eyes
glazed. I'm gongi" he gasped aud sank.
A moment later the boat drincd inHhorc OF tho
outer breakers and for brief space was In
smoother water Ellis once more crhwled out on
the bottom and succeeded In pulling tho center
board out 20 that he could hold on to II and bet
ter maintain his position.
Now, you will remember that at the time OF
tho atrandng Of the wadena the John G. FltL'
patrick. her sister barge had also gone aground.
she had Eone over the outer bar and was lying
between II and the inner breakers. on board her
was Capt Elmer y. Mayo. OF Chatham. who was
In charge OF tightening her. Tho Fitzpatrick was
80 far away from the Wadena that Captain Mayo.
and two other men who were with him, did not
see the liicSaying boat 40 out. nor did thoy have
any knowledge OF the grim tragedy that was being
enacted, until. glancing over tho rail. Captain
Mayo saw an overturned llfoboat with single
man cuglng to H.
The capsilcd boat was some distance from tho
barge. but Mayo did not hesitate. III get that
fellow" he announced coolly.
on the deck of the Fitzpatrick lay small
twcycfoo dory, the only boat aboard, totally
unit craft for the furious that was laundering
across the shoals, Kicking on his boots Mayo
and the other men. who begged him not 20 go aa
II would be- certain death, ran tho dory oversize
How the captain ~ the wreckng crew kept his
fragile craft anont those who watched him from
the Fitzpatrick could mover understand hut he
did keep her aHoat, and the set Of he tide and
the gale carried him down toward the capszcd
lfc-boat TO which Ellis chung now with the last
Of his chhiug strength
The utcsaycr faid aftcrward that he saw
dOry thrown over the side ot the Fitzpatrick ~
he driitcd near her, but that a moment later the
scud and the spindrlit were driven 80 thick and
ceasclossy before his eyes that he taw nothing,
until suddenly out OF the mist q tiny, hobhlng
boat doomed dozen feet away Then tho occu.
pant OF this boat shot her sklully alongside the
swampod life boat and the exhausted surtman top
Piled into her.
Mayo. with tho haltconscous Ifesayer lying
limp In the bottom ot the dory, had kept his word
TO his mates on the Fitzpatrick
Necessarily the most thrilling stories of the
coast watchera are those In which loss of HE Ia
entailed and therefore, In measure they are
accounts ~ the failures " the men OF tho sery.
ice hut they are stories ~ noble failures and
behind some of them lie tragedies other than
those " death
Perhaps ono Of tho greatest of these IA woven
about the career OF Captain David II Atkins. mn.
al November 30, 1850. keeper 81 the Peaked nm
Bar station, Cape Cod
This man had followed the sea from hoy hood
vhaliuf fishing ana coasting In 1879 he became
keeper OF the Peaked INN nar station
Then came Wild day In April 1879 and as
II appears In the chronicles " the department
at Washington, "a blot zen across the record OF
Keeper Atkins"
on this Ap,il day the Schooner Sarah J Fort
stranded near Peaked tam bar terrific sea
coupled with an onshorc hurricane and q tcmrora
ture very low for tho time ~ the year faced A.
kins and his crew as they discovered the schooner
and took their apparatus 10 the beach
without hesitation the keeper orIorcl the surf
boat launched, but the sea was 30 heavy that il
WAS thrown back on the beach Time and again
In the twenty hours Of watching and battling with
the storm that followed the keeper led his mon
into the breakers with the boat but each lime
they we're beaten back drcnehed with tho wInter