Show fight with the itani 9 P chronicle service Be rico NEW NENY GLASGOW oct 15 A thrilling story is that of the rescue of ti the a lour four men remaining on the wreck wrack of the bark melmerby Mel merby morby which stranded af af little tittle harbor while on a voya voyage 90 from quebec to greenock Ure enock with lumber from which the captain Q and first and soco second n d officers ficera of sad twelve men were drowned all day yesterday d ay crowd on the beach watched d ala tho e poor unfortunate ll on the crumbling wreck but were powerless power lesa to effect or even attempt to rescue them so wild was the ees sea and night settled down without any abatement of the terrible storm two men remained on the ebore shore and ace occasionally aslon ally waved a lantern to show the ma marineus marl nere in such a perilous situation that they i were not forgotten or gotten when this ing dawned an immense concourse conco urEe was assembled but it was noon before it wee was at all possible to mako make an attempt at a lepene I 1 when a boat was launched with a volunteer crew consisting coneie tine of captain george P graham dvid david frazer williams dr mclean of Newel aaa a james mca Ul akber of big I 1 island a d and a de scon seman the brave fellows fought a terrible battle with the waves but eventually reached the wreck when a mighty cheer went dp up from 16 the an anxious X watchers on abote one by one the exhausted and benumbed shipwrecked men wore were lowered into tho the boat and after a second desperate sperato de battle with the breakers the boat was safely landed this work was facilitated by a liberal use of oil two of the rescued men were eick sick and ono one haddis bad abts shoulder broken the rescued men were seamen kane and evans the steward and the captain of the schooner which went to supply the bark with provisions and was unable to regain his own vessel the stranded melmerby Mel merby by is fast breaking up |