Show SEVEN ME I IN THE RIGGINGS Herioic Attempts at Their Rescue Res-cue By the LifeSaving Crew SCENES WERE PITIFUL ng Sailors Try to Help Themselves 14 Them-selves in Vain Stronjr Brave 3Icn Every Sfriicclc Pulsing WMh n Desire to Aid nnd SaTe Munt Xecds Stand By and Sec Fellow Ileiiiprs Condemned to Certain Death Line After Line Sent Over Them Without Result TJorkncss Clothes Down and tile I Victims Are Left to Their Fate 1 t Torlc Feb 9The life saving crow from the Town Hill station on the Great South beach opposite East port L L Ti ere out at daybreak today and down the beach in the teeth of the storm to make one mote attempt to reach the men lashed and frozen in the rigging of the unknown schooner When the life savers left at daybreak seven men were still hanging in the riggings As the Icy winds did not abate and as the waves were washing over the grounded icelocked wreck the life savors felt that the men must surely lie dead Captain Baker fixed his glass upon > u the > Mcedraped rigging of the wreck Seven forms hung there not one haying hay-ing fallen during the night But three of Hte men v < ne hanging head down Evidently they had lashed their legs when they went up in the rigging to escape the fury of the deck During the night they had died and the lingers relaxing the bodies had fallen hangIng hang-Ing by the knees The life savers tried to launch the life boat but the shore ice made that effort in vain The life line was then fired into the rigging There it hung tvith a certainty of life to whoever could reach it and it was within a few feet of each of the five upright figures Soon the life savers saw one of the nipn stirring He painfully and slowly I disengaged himself from the lashings and started toward the line He took a few steps imused hesitated almost fell and climbed back to the surer support I sup-port he had left In a few moments another man began to svork himself loose and succeeding set out in a slow way that was painful to see He got a little farther down than the first man and then he too stopped He almost al-most lost his balance regained his hold remounted and wrapped himself j in the cords of the rigging in the place lie had left The life savers were in despair It nas clear that the men In the rigging were too weak too stiff too nearly frozen to do anything more than fasten a line if it fell across their bodies so thf > cannon was fired again and again I but without success The last line was fired about midday and from that I time until dark the Hfp savers sheltered shel-tered by the mounds of ice watched nnd tried to think of some way of reaching the schooner I Rfc life savers think they can reach t1 rck if she waits until high tide I |