AN EXCITING SCENE AT YARMOUTH BEACH.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 9302, 5 September 1898, Page 3

AN EXCITING SCENE AT YARMOUTH BEACH.

Ho! id ay- makers at Yarmouth hud lately a glimpse of the grimmer sido of new- faring life. Tho yawl Oddfellows, m 'in nod by a crew of six seasoned beaoh» mt'D, pub off early ono morning to a fitoiunor In difficulties, and subsnquently landing at tho jotty, wonb ashore to refresh themselves. Thoy loft tho jetty later for tho harbor s moath, bub had only got a short distance wlion ft cquall of wind ciughb their sail, and the boa% thrown on its side, quickly filled* Tho pooplo crowding tho boaoh Haw tho acoidont and watohod tho men battling for lifo in tho whvos not a 100 yards from them. Boats were launched, bub ono man, named Adamp, sank boforo help could roaoh him, Fivo othore, niunod Laddio Wood", who is coxswain of tho lifeboat, Samuel Gooob, Isaac Good), Isaac Leggott, and George Fleming woro brought ashore more dead than alive. Doctors doalb with them on the boaoh, and woro tmccossful in restoring animation in ovory instance except) that of Fleming, who was treated by the Sylveator method for over four hours without showing the faintest; bigu of life. Ho was a single matt, and a membor of tho lii-oboab crow. VVoods bohaved with groat gallantry. Tho boats reaohecUiim first, but ho pointed out his companions, who woro in greater danger than himself, and was tho last to bo landed. VVlion restored ho broke down an<J cried liko a child, and was completely unnerved, yet in the Hfoboab ho has battled with the fiercest gales and savud scores of lives.