SAVED BY A DOG.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 114, 9 November 1895, Page 1 (Supplement)

SAVED BY A DOG.

The large tank steamer Baku Standard has returned to the Tyne, after an absence of several months While the third officer was on the bridge on the Becond trip to America fogs were experienced. During this thick weather two French fishermen were found who had lost sight of their vessel, and were drifting about hopelessly in a frail craft. The ship's dog on board the Baku Standard, a sagacious animal, had seen the fishermen drifting paßt the steamer, and commenced to bark, and but for this the men would have been passed. The dog first gave a loud bark and ran furiously along the deok in the direction of the officer on duty. The poor fellows in the boat had shouted for help, and the voices of the distressed men had attracted the dog's attention, and it in turn gave the alarm to the officer. The men were somewhat exhausted when got on board the steamer, having been upwards of 42 hours in the open boat. They had, while fishing on the banks, lost sight of their vessel and afterwards drifted helplessly about. They were kindly looked after, and afterwards landed at Philadelphia.