CUT OFF BY THE TIDE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 14 November 1913, Page 7

CUT OFF BY THE TIDE.

More than thirty children, whose ages ranged from five to ten years, were trapped by the tide when playing on some rocks at New Brighton, Lancashire, and narrowly ■,•■•■;■:•. y drowning. They were rescued with considerable difficulty by men who were at one time up to their shoulders in water, „-» The children were nrembers of a party of little shim-dwellers from Liverpool, were enjoying a day at the seaside.

They failed to notice the incoming tide. They were quickly surrounded by the sea,'and their position was one or peril. Some of them succeeded in reaching the shore without assistance, but the majority were panicstricken, and their screams attracted a large crowd of people; , -■ • M ■Vour shove hotrsemen arid Mi; W. H. S. Oultott, revising barrister for Liverpool, phickily went to the ie'scue,. and brought the children to the shore, in'osurs,' .... , ';■■,.', , ; ~. : •'''■ The work was rendered exception; ally difficutl in consequence of the treacherous nature of the rocks which were covered wiih slippery moss. Several times they slipped and grazed their legs, but the children escaped injury. . # . . One of the rescuers missed his toot-, ' and fell into a deep hole, but was 'W ' out by another man. pullpo » '- of the rescue lasted half ftw woTW ' - the time the last an hour, ai'i7r N \> t . • brought ashore of the children 99» shoulders of I>he water was up to v £f?'--. /bove the the auen, and a foot or ffl** **"

rocks. < . \,, Mr Ouiton, who reamed mo7 e fifteen children, stated in an ii. view that tho children" repeated* .shotted, "Shall, wo be saved?" "I fell several times," he said, "hut saved tho children' I was carrying from injury." One of tho horsemen, George Clarke, who brought twelve children ashore, said he never- thought it possible that all could bef rescued hefore. the tide washed them of/ the rocks.