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Wrecked!
the rolling hull through the mist and saw what
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Continued from Page 21.
he took to be a signal of distress flapping from
there were still in a terrible condition, unable the stump of the mast. Captain Hodgdon
to be moved from the vessel. After an exami- called for a volunteer crew to clear away the
nation had been made, doctors said that all ice-covered boats and go to the disabled
had chances for recovery. Not only had they craft. Every man on the HODGDON promptly
suffered from exposure, both to frigid tem- responded. With great difficulty the captain
peratures and stormy seas, but for 36 hours and two men reached the wrecked and board-
they had been compelled to be without food ing her, discovered the situation. For a time it
or water, and when the men from the was a question whether the men on the
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Thus did they pass Saturday night and
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Sunday, and Sunday night. At 8 o’clock
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Monday morning, Captain Hodgdon sighted
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