The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1914-02-07
THREE BOYS MAKE
THRILLING FLIGHT FROM
STEAMSHIP ASHORE
tceutinusd from First Pas&)

was the dickens to pay. The old man
thought we'd hit Sandy HOOK OF
Consy Island or enc Of them places.
We biased away with the signal gun
and blew the whistle ell the quarter.
master got tired tuggins the cord.
About daylight the fog shifted . BIT
and We saw the coast guards ashore
but there was sueh . bloemins sss
running that they couldn't get their
boats OF and 20 they fred the Lyle
gun. The old man told me- and the
other kids 70 dust along shore ~ soon
a. the bresehss buoy was rigssd aaA.
believe me. matsy. that Wa ssms
cruise.
"The old man told me % call up
the agents and cable the cWnsrs
rye done that and now we'll ~ tight
here till We sec II the old hooker'l
going to break up or II they'll 81 hss
off,"
The revenue cutter 0snseA ID
standing by. waiting for high water
this evening. whom IN effort viii b
made to haul the Queen Leuiss %
the sands. Il 10 not bellevue che car
do %.
Row said that the Skipper Of the
Queen Louise had tried to ct his poA-
ton by soundings. In this way they
lost overheard I'VE leads and tines. the
complete sounding eutft the ship car
ried. This was Some hours beforo she
struck.
The first inumation OF the ships
plight came to the life savers Of
AanAsquaA. Spring Lake, and the
rest Of the chain Of coast guard posta
whom the booming Of the ships strSr
and the firing Of her signal gun came
through the thiok smothse that ever.
hung the Atlantic shore In that viotn.
ity during the early hours.
CRAFT HAD NO WlRgLgsS 70
SgNO APPGALo ron AID.
The craft has NO wirelesA and
therefore was unable 70 signal Of hss
plight in any other way than By hsl
whistle and gun. 4 hsavy swell va
running. breaking In mountains oi
surf that made II impossible for tn
life savers 10 launch their boats. Il
TACT It was not for IN hour. whss
. rising sasterly wind blew the to-
wreAths away. that The enact sltuA-
ton Of the stranded ship was dis.
covered.
Capt. Andrew Ionesersst Of ths
ManasquAn life saving station ana hia
men tried again and again 70 launoh
their boats through the binding surf
Every time they were beaten back
and 1t last, when the weather cleared
sufacisntiy. the Lyle gun was put into
play, Three times the life saving %.
vics was fred before the hne manills
line attached TO the guns pro5sotils
fell across the stranded sAip's hull
which lies 800 feet OF shore.
When . line had bssn fisysd q
brsschss buoy was ssnt through the
mounting waves and . huge IRE bull
on the beach to afford . glare Of high
for the Mfs-savers' operations. Capt
kaeDonaid elected to ssnd ashore only
three apprentice boys. who broush
word that the steam steering ga
went ont Of commission yesterday
and that the ship wee out Of 10
reckoning whom che strteie
STEAM KEPT UP IN gFPoNT rc
FLOAT oNtP.
The apprentice laAs stated that Z
full head Of steam va being hep
up In the nroroom Of the steamer b
the hope that at ths nett high ~
she will b able 70 st ~ uneer be-
own power.
The life savers cay. h0wevee. tAa
owing 70 the position OF ths srounds(
ship Il 70 likely that shA WIN Ieav'
her bones on the oquaa Shoals, whiol
have . sinister rsputataoa - . ma
rins graveyard. ohs drovs ashore b
tween the inner ana outer ban unds
q speed not exceeding six knots b
ling SLOWED down because Of The hind
in1 for. 90 fne a. can b made 0ul