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Show MENHAULED UP CLIFFS Captain and Crew Saved By Fisherfolk With Long Ropes St Johns, N P. Jan. to. Captain Burke and eight members 01 the crew of the steamer, Eelvn, were hauled up the steep cliffs at Aubols ' by the fisherfolk of that hamlet last night, after the Evelyn had been wrecked on the rocks oi that shore. The Evelyn had left her crew helpless help-less as their boats had been carried away. Hope of reaching shore wa6 slight until a boat manued by fishermen fish-ermen reached the Eelyn's side. Transfer of the crew was made and the boat headed tor shore when the wind shifted Landed on Narrow Shelf The small boat was carried our of its; course and thrown on a narrow shelf of rocks at the foot of the cliffs a mile down the coast Hem- I med in by the rocks on one side snd b the rising side on the other, the; Little band seemed without way of 1 'escape But their fight for life' had i been witnessed from shore and the fisherfolk hurried to the cliffs and 'dropped a jou-foot rope to the men.' hauling them up one by one. |