Show II Imprisoned in n Shipwrecked Vessel One of tho most extraordinary escapes after i af-ter shipwreck was reported on May 11 at Hull On tho previous day a keel bound from Grimsby to Leeds was driven against a sand bankandcapsizcd and it was supposed that all on board tho master his wife and three children had perished On that morning about 10 oclock the captain cap-tain of a steam tug was passing the spot where tho accident happened and saw the keel floating bottom upward on the edge of the sand bank Ho got as near to it as he I could and presently heard sounds of knocking I knock-ing coming from the cabin end The crew concluded that some one was on board and energetic steps were taken to get the keel in such a position as to effect a rescue After several hours labor this was accomplished and a hole having been cut through tho bottom bot-tom of the vessel the captains wife Mrs Snowden and one of her children were rescued re-scued alive after an agonizing suspense of nearly seventeen hours The water had nearly filled the cabin where the woman and her children were sleeping but there was just space enough left for her to keep her head and those of her little ones above tho water which i ultimately reached to the mothers throat When they were aroused by the sinking of I the keel and the inrush of the water she contrived to get hold of the children who all held on by the hair of her head and in that I way for some time all of the little ones I were kept alive but during the day two of them died Just as the man who rescued them got into the cabin the water flowed in and reached to the womans mouth All the childien were still clinging to her hair I and she and the live child were in a terribly I i exhausted condition The mothers hands were raw with knocking at the side of the keelThe survivors were taken on board the tug II and carefully tended At tho moment of the ccel capsizing what is known as the horse I line twisted round the captain and carried him down among the rigging which appeared I ap-peared to have remained under water even when the keel was being rolled over I by the force of the tide London Standard |