CHARLESTON HURRICANE.
WIRELESS OPERATOR'S HEROISM. By Telegraph—Press Association— New York, August 30. During the progress of the great storm in South Carolina, when heavy damage was done afloat and ashore, the liner Lexington got carried into the quicksand on Hunting Island, Charleston. The wireless operator, Sheesley, aged sixty, stuck to his post, and when twelve passengers, terror-stricken, sought to abandon the vessel, he ran amongst them and urged them to remain. Later, when the waves washed over the ship, Sheesley climbed into tho rigging, and, having fixed the wireless apparatus, continued to sond out calls for aid. Ultimately these were answered by a revenuo cutter, whicli saved tho passengers. Tho crew refused to abandon tho ship, but it is believed the latter will become a total loss. Two firemen are reported to have been burned to death when the ship struck.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1221, 1 September 1911, Page 5
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