Show C J 7 J S 5 S A It TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE Captain and Crew Cooped Up Ui In I a n 1 Capsized Vessel Ho No lb seaman over ever knew a more ter ter- and unique experience than that thai which fell to the lot of Captain James Jamos S Morse of an experience experienc S that thrilled the going world a at t that time Captain Morse Moise had be been beez n I overtaken oy y a terrible gale and while S lying to t one of the tremendous S waves which plunged along mast high higl tripped the vessel and she was in instantly in- in I. I turned bottom up says saya the theLe e Le Lewiston Journal Captain Morse and a companion a were in the cabin at the time and a as S tho deck was several feet below th the S surface of the sea they were imprisoned imprison imprison- I. I ed there They were In in absolute dark k b ne nes ne's s standing in water up to their r waists seemingly helpless and doomed L. L Hut But Captain Morse and his companion com COST I. I panion were not the kind of men t to tu 0 surrender to tho the seemingly inevitable ine le until forced to do so Groping about abou b they found a hatchet and antI decided t tI to U saw their way to the upper air air Knowing Know Knowing I ing that as soon a as alt ail au opening we wa waS made tho the air which was then slit shut it in by tho tile arch of the tile invented hull hul would it place they were obliged to work the tho greatest caution least they make mak I a fatal leak before there WitS was a a. hole ho e large enough to permit of their escape I and so be drowned like rats rata imprison imprisoned I ed there S For days they worked cutting awu the ceIling and planks until they could a I catch the gleam of light through th the tho 0 thin wood in one place then cuttin cutting I again until another part was similarly similar similar- ly cleared and so on until the light ugh passing through the slight surf surface ac I marked the tho lines of a square place e I large enough to admit tho the free fres pas pas- I. I sage sago of a a. mans man's body Then when pasa a every every- possible preparation had been ii made and there seemed to be not nothing noth noth- 1 ing log more mort that they could do o to in insure 6 the success of the final move the they y knocked out the tho square squat e and antI crawled into the daylight as the te water lr ed from the oppression of f the compressed air followed them then I and the vessel sank lower into the IC water until the natural buoyancy of f the timber checked her There they were perched o on the ti a curved surface of f a capsized wreck C drifting at the mercies of the seas sea 0 But Dut th they y had no idea of surrender r. r Having escaped to th the light they ii at once set to work to build up a sort of f si signal station to attract the attention fl of any vessel that might chance to t 0 come that way which fluttered a signal signal signal-a a shirt laden brick schooner passing that way sighted the signal of distress bore down upon and rescued the men who were almost exhausted by their days of suffering Buffering their torn hands showing how they had labored there in in the terrible darkness but they soon Boon recovered and no one talking with the captain day to-day would ever su suspect that he once dug his ais ns way out of the sepulchre of the sea |