AN EXCITING SCENE IN MIGOCEAN.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8564, 5 June 1895, Page 2

AN EXCITING SCENE IN MIGOCEAN.

• Brave Besone of a, Ship's Crew. S Ihe British ship Aroo, of London, .with - ft cargo of grain, wiled from Weir York for Litarpool. When »he had been oat eight day* a moderate Rale towed her about and cawed . her cargo to thif 6 to port. She rolled arm on ke? beam* end*. The «o» • •wepfc orer her, washing away everything on the decks, battering the* hatches and ' flooding the oabin*. " "" The or»w r«hif ted part of the cargo, and ' finally the ship was righted. 'She stood - erenly on her keel for a few honn. Then ■_, the gale blew with the power of a harrioane/-' and rolled the ressel orer on her ittrboaud •ide. . The cargo «h now hopelessly listed. The oraft wae at the mercy of wind and '■ ware.* The crew olang to the bridge and for three nights and two dayi they held there awaiting the end." 23; cry few minutes - giant wares swept orer the deck*. One by < one the leren lifeboat* were smashed and washed away, until only two remained, and, these could not be reached. '. Thitfcy.one persons shiTered and hungered" therein despair,' Among them, were the , captain's wife, Hrslffewnhain and her little son. This woman, when strong men despaired and would hare thrown themselves, , v into the sea, nerer lost heart. She wrapped her baby closer and said «o 'trustingly that - she had no fear that the oaptain and orew? felt their waning strength and .oour*g«» return to them. They almost forgot that . they had not tasted food for days, that sleep had not come to them and that they could not escape frem the listed and wator-V logged craft. • ' ? ?•*-.- * ..- ADMttT JLTO HBDBMBB.'. l':^ t " The Arab was bow drifting irat»i*« the, i regular steamship lanes, and her brew began : " to feel that their case was growing bjoto, and more desperate. Below decks ths graiabroke'from the sacks, and mingled with <*£ - water was a rentable quicksand. It bloxgioT ■ the pumps. It flowed about' fionf tide fax ' side. ' ' ■ " ? Thfl Normannia. from ' New York oa March 28, sighted the Arno on April 1. The big liner bore down to her. Captain' , Barends, the steamer's commander, sig- "* nailed that Jie would stand by, as th» see,-* seemed then too rough for a Tx>at' to be launched. Captain. Sewnham signalled ft^ any delay slight meaathe'lose of ererrlif* 1 on board the ship, '"'- -, *■ ■ "t ' • ' • Captain- 'Barends then called for Tolun- ■' teen. A' terrific sea was on. Brentbe : solidly*built Normannia was being totsed • from side to side. One of Use hetry lifaboats was launohed. The Honnannia " lurched orer at the moment, and' Uwboat-' was carried against the resselY- side. •• (The ■■ catch hook broke and the oraft bumped; * sereral times Jnto the vessel's hulL --^.. ' - < Of the two men who were in the boat one ~ ftcrambled baok on board. Th» other went with the boat. He struck the rail with his right arm, and was almost riased by..tlu» ->- ptin. The, next moment % great wave lifted -] the boat np almost leTel with the deck of >, the Nonnaania. The man oangh't a f railing;, V of the steamer with his uninjured', bland* : ; and held on until he was assisted to tb* '] deck by the crew. '•" '• * 4 "" A DABIHS BESOTJH. , '.^ ~t f The boat with seren men, in oommand of \ Second Officer Eaner, was Snkilylaanohed.il The crew found that in the tnmendom sea*; *- ' which . were running Ghat the. boat „wo» .s,-' practically helpless, *o after a brief. battW with the wares tiey returnad. Bystb* :s order of Captain Barends a smaller boat >.<> was launched.. This was manned bySe»«-ojs men Weiger, Templin, Sinnhueker, and / Peters. The little craft .struggled through stormy seas for nearly an hour befdta it got oloie enough to get a line to the Arnq. A lifebnoy, with a double running line, was then thrown out from the ArnO, and the> work of resoue began. " ' ,">'>■ "*-' The carpenter was the first to lear* tb» Arno. Hext came the captain's wifet^ 'jln>' oumbered as she was with wet aiadheary ' t olothing she plnnged into the sea without giring a sign «f fear. One of the appreti. " tioe boys of the Arno, fearing she would ■••} lose hesrt, jumped in after htr.and without ' line or life-preserrer swam along withVher; - She was hauled on board th» boat in safety. • > 'a r The baby, fifteen months old, was then tied up in a oanvas bag and hauled through the seething waters to the boat. The ' mother, sitting in the -stern with clasped hand*» watched the .package being hauled slowly toward the boat, and when the boy was safe she fell on her knees there and thanked God. The ohild was taken -from „-- the bag as dry as he would hare bees in hi» crib. The lifs»sarers took off all these oa board the Arno in four trips. Two- of these trips were made after dark, and in a".;:ssa whioh was becoming more, angry-iiqur V by hour. It took eight hours to make the ' resoue. The reicued one were landed at ' SonthaniDton. The Arno was pioked up by th« staamat < Merrixeao, and towed to Hiarre. Toe der* , man Smperor sent ft mess&g* to Oaptaia Barends, of tbe;Normanma, baupltnMntiac him on tha gallant resoos. tl .j -i ** j