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Fire, flood or disaster · 12.1861

Twenty-nine people adrift on the ice to Kesselaid

Kakskümmend üheksa inimest jääpangal Kesselaiu poole

Just before Christmas 1861 a broken floe carried 29 people crossing the frozen Great Strait some ten versts through the dark towards Kesselaid, off Muhu. A bold Muhu man leapt from floe to floe, four times went into the water up to his neck and hauled himself over a crack by his axe handle; soon a fire blazed on the island. Seven more followed, jumping and crawling over planks, while the Kesselaid men burned juniper bushes, ran about with lanterns and met them with ropes. One of the seven wrote to Perno Postimees to clear the islanders of a rumour that they had refused to help.

Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today

Eesti keeles

Vahetult enne jõule 1861 kandis murdunud jääpank Suurt väina mööda jääd ületanud 29 rändajat ära ja need triivisid pimedas umbes kümme versta Muhu lähedal asuva Kesselaiu poole. Üks julge Muhu mees hüppas pangalt pangale, kukkus neli korda kaelani vette ja vedas end kirvevarre abil üle prao; peagi lõi saarel lõkkele tuli. Järele läks veel seitse meest, hüpates ja laudade abil roomates, ning Kesselaiu mehed põletasid kadakaid, jooksid laternatega ringi ja tulid neile köitega vastu. Üks seitsmest kirjutas Perno Postimehele, et puhastada saarlased kuulujutust, nagu oleksid nad abist keeldunud.

Map of the area around Twenty-nine people adrift on the ice to Kesselaid
58.63400° N, 23.43700° E · Map: Maa- ja Ruumiamet

Source: Perno Postimees, 7 February 1862, p. 3 (DIGAR) ↗

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