Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-15 | Page 16 | Use Breeches Body to Save Passengers

It BREECHES BUOY ! TO SAVE PASSENGERS j (Crews of Life-Saving Sta-! Sta-! tions Rescue Those on Board Stranded Steamer. liy International News Service. EAST HAMPTON, L, March 13. Traveling In a bi-e'-hes buuv over a high sea, soaked with salt spray, sixty passengers passen-gers of the htranded st.-amer Kirahaw of jthe Merchants and Miners line, which ; grounded heie late last night, were safely jiauded uii the flJ.. iaie tins afternoon, j Fi . e (,'. the -ssri"s t:n-w were rescued in a lifebuat which capsized just bet ore ! rea'-hin- t::e beach. iioais from scout j putnd No. "j;" 7. in the fenerai service, with I cia i s i dei a b 1 e dilucuUy transferred the re- ma in dei' of ihe lii.j passengers and the crew- ut forty, and they are now on the , patrol r.oat. Among these are two wo:n-1 wo:n-1 en and two chiid i en. j Tue ocean was comparatively calm when ihe Kiishaw was beached in a fog iai ti ht. It was at first beaeved that , she could be towed off without discharging discharg-ing her passengers, and a hurry call was made for a wrecking crew. But today, with the rising of the wind and sea. the shin started to pound as the tide flooded, and Ihe Kirsmuv sprang a leak. It was then decided that safety required the h'ndlng of the passengers. The crews of t wo life-saving stations shot a breeches-buoy line over the vessel ves-sel late this afternoon. The line was made fust and the iii:ging of the buoy followed. Trip after trip was made and the worlt of rescue proceeded steadily until dusk. The difficulty increased as the rising wind lashed :he sea into huge waves that smashed upon the beach after roiling the Kiishaw where she lay jOU feet from the shore. In the 'offing tonight are two torpedo-boat torpedo-boat destroyers, two patrol boats and two revenue cutters. They are waiting to render any additional assistance. The K irshaw's captain was said to have remained re-mained on the ship. ' The Ki rfdia w is 224 feet in length and has a displacement of 2t'uO tons. She was proceed ing from Huston to Philadelphia when she was beached.