OVERBOARD IN A GALE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 11, 14 January 1915, Page 7

OVERBOARD IN A GALE.

REMARKABLE RESCUE. A remarkable experience befel two sailors of the American schooner Columbia- on the voyage from Sound to Sydney. It was on New Year's Eve that a violent g-\le burst on the vessel, and next drv the conditions became worse. lT.'avy seas swept the vessel fore and f,rt, and suddenly an unusually big s.a carried away the lashings of the dock cargo of lumber. All hands were c lied, and were engaged securing the cargo when another sea crashed on b.iird with all the force of an avalaiehe. The wave went clean through t': - lower sails that were set, and sent t'.ie crew flying in all directions. Two (.•: the men were swept clean overboard, and they were observed struggling ast' rn of the schooner. The vessel, luckily, was hove-to at the time, and detain Sprague acted promptly. Seizins.'- ' rope he threw it astern, and one of le men secured it. This seaman \va quickly hauled in, and then the liiu vas thrown out again. The other nM. just grabbed the rope as another v m-> swept over, and iie, too, was ] uihcl on bdard again. Both men were i in i to l)e little-the worse for their cci ; .ng experience. IBf A ogether the schooner was hove-to f 'i Jays in the gales, the seas nieanv li i "washing all over her; but she i 3 Jually emerged from the encounter ■ th nit serious damage. She was 88 i ys on the passage from the sound, j >d brings one million feet of lumber