Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1893 — Some Women Who Saved Life. [ARTICLE]

Some Women Who Saved Life.

Miss Jennie Rhodes, Mrs. James B. Rayner, and Mrs. Emma Moseman, of Freeport, L. L, are three woman whose services in saving human lives in a gale deserve recognition. When the hurricane drove the bark Martha P. Tucker with ber crew of eleven lives ashore near Point Lookout the only member of the life-saving crew present for duty was the captain, Andrew Rhodes. He was joined by Capt. Van Sicklen, of the Long Beach station, who had seen the wreck, and by two other men. This force was, however, insufficient to haul the heavy beach wagon, on which the little cannon, to whose projectile the life line is attached, is mounted. In this emergency Mrs. Rhodes, Mrs. Rayner, and Mrs. Moseman came to the rescue like the heroines they were. Side by side with the four men they tugged the beach wagon a mile through the sand. Working with all. the coolness and oourage of veteran life-savers, they helped haul the life buoy with its human freight back from the wreck. Their hands blistered and bled, cut by the rough, wet ropes; but, undaunted by pain or tempest, they toiled on until the buoy had made eleven journeys and saved eleven lives. Then, when their task was performed, like true daughters of Eve, they sat down and cried.—-New York Press.