Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 536
les to the scene of shipwreck, asthe December St. Nicholas told you. The disaster atwhich the North-western Academystudent crew dis-played such signalbravery that thegold medal of theservice was award-ed them was thestranding of thesteamer Calumetoff Fort Sheridan,twelve miles northof Evanston.… … RIGHTING THE BOAT. with sleet and snow. When they reached FortSheridan the crew could see from the bluff thedoomed vessel about a thousand yards fromshore, the waves rushing madly over her. A ragged ravine—acrevice in the bluffthrough which thestorm roared — leddown to the shore.The crew…
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