The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-04-25

Humble Heroes Who DO Brave
Work Along Our Coast.
DARING DEEDS IN THE SURF.

Battle With the Giant combars and
Icy Seas When . Storm Wrecked
Vessel Offers the Fearless Guards q
Chance to Rescue Human Being.
Through u bleak February night d
storm was raging up the Atlantic sea-
board. All along the coast the life
guards were out. launching into the
gale. patrolling the beaches, alert for
signs Of disaster. Just before mid
night one of them east Of Bellport sta
ton. on Long Island, saw schooner
fioundering In the gray spindrift on
shore. 1t was the BENJAMIN Cromwell,
and as the alarm swept down the
beach the crews Of three stations hur-
ried to the scene Their work was to
take seven men from the rigging Of
the wrecked vessel.
All efforts through the night and the
forenoon following failed. The wind
was too high Then at noon the
schooner's masts, except the foremost,
on which sill OF the crew save one had
taken refuge. crashed overheard. This
man went down In welter Of wreck
age. and to those on shore it seemed
as IL he must surely be battered to
death, but as the breakers raced in
they saw him clinging to plank that
had been swept away with him.
A furious surf was running, and tim
Der with which the Cromwell had been
laden was pitched up on the beach.
TO add to the danger thick ice cakes,
heaved by the breakers, lifted their
jagged ends high in the air and crashed
down, splintering one upon the other,
and always the awful drive Of snow
and sleet, ripping the 0nrushing waves
Into tatters Of foam and spfndrift
Surely no man could live In that.
Instinctively the life savers moved
nearer the edge Of the surf and peered
ahead for some sign Of life. The beach
was fringed with skim ice, sharp and
pointed. that cut through rubber boots
and clothing as il through parchment.
Helpless to aid the man whom they
knew must be plunging somewhere out
in that angry water, they huddled to-
gether as men will when a nfeless
body is about to be cast up before
them. They heard Ice and wreckage
grind harshly; scattered debris washed
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