Daily Colonist (1895-03-24) by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: British Columbia; Newspapers
Published: 1895-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

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THE "VELOS" "VVHECKED

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it wua so dark. Tho captain was in the whcelhouHO ; Mr. Adams, uf tor huving had u talk with him had gone into the galley, where he whb last) i-eon ; tho two ongineora were in tho engine room ; the cook was in cabin I think ; and tho duokhand, Duncan, and I were ouo. I wan juat coming forward from attending to I ho hawser, for tho tow waB giving us trouble, and atopped near the boats. When the sea struck us broadside lb pitched us hard over on the Bido. I stopped whore I waB on the houso and tried to clear tho boats, for the Pilot was ooming down on us like a steam engine, and I knew that if sho struck us bub would go clour through us. Luckily, in ouo way, she atruok a rock and that turned her out of hor course. Then I aaw it wua my only chanca and 1 grubbed tho huwaer and went up ib onto tho bargo, singing out to the otherB that they'd hotter follow.

"Duncan did undertake to come after, but he never reachod the bargo. Ho was washed off the line, I Bupposo, and swept away ut once. The engineer and tho cook started to swim for it, though thero was a torrible surf to look one fjr. They failod to make it. Tho captain and the second engineer stayed by the steamer until midnight, holding on to the tow bits. Then the ciptuin took bia chances in swimming and the second sou that came along landed him on a little rocky islet near the main island. His legs were pretty badly cut and hiB head too in the surf. Ho managed to hold on, though, until wo patched up the leaat injured of tho boats in the morning and brought him over to tho main island."

THE WOKK OF EESCDE.

How the SurTlvors Spent tho Terrible Night —Law's Body Recovered.

When the steamer was thus meeting hor fate, those aboard the barge were being toeBed hither and thither in terriblo suspense—nnablo to see what was transpiring, powerless to do anything for their own pro cection or for the assistance of thoso of the steamer's crew whose cries reached them amid tho nolBo of tho storm. After bumping first on ono ledge and then on another the " tow " was finally deposited stern on in a little cove breaking the rocky shore cf tho main island to the lett of the chinnel between the island and tho reef, none of the large party aboard having been lost in the storm.

After ChriBtensen reached them they were never olose to the lost steamer though for a time tho lino still connected them. They were near enough to hear the agonized cries for help of Law, and eBS»yed to aid him by launching tho only boat aboard tho barge. It was rendered useless almost us Boonao it touched the water, and after th»t ihey oonld only watch, and listen and wait.

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