AMAZING INCIDENT OF A SHIPWRECK.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 12, 30 August 1911, Page 8

AMAZING INCIDENT OF A SHIPWRECK.

The survivors of the liner Santa Rosa, which was wrecked on the California coast recently, have narrated tho amazing action of a man who, in a moment of danger, abandoned his wife to her fate in order to rescue a pet spaniel. It was while tho passengers were being lowered to a raft, according to the account furnished by Mr Spooner, of Los Angeles, that an unknown man literally thing himself over the heads of tho women who crowded the bow of the wrecked liner, and sprang on to tho raft. Before anyone could prevent it, he was followed a second later by a male passenger whose wife was clinging to him in pitiful distress. Ignoring the cries of his wife, the man violently broke away from her, and seizing a spaniel by tho neck, jumped with the animal on to the raft. The dog could easily have swum ashore, the survivors indignantly declared, but the man was so intent on saving the animal that ho forgot all else. His swooning wife was lowered by the sailors on to tho next raft, reaching the shore safely.