THE LADY LAMPSON WRECK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 93, 21 April 1893, Page 3

THE LADY LAMPSON WRECK.

ALL HANDS SAVED,

ATTEMPTED CANNIBALISM.

Captain Pedeeson of the wrecked American barque Lady Lampson, arrived at San Francisco shortly before the mail left for Auckland, with his wife, by the s,s. Australia, and four hours later First-mate Muller and the four men, composing the second boat's crew, feara for whose safety have been entertained ever since the disaster was reported, arrived sound and well on the schooner Martha W. Tuft.

The Echooner came from Apia, Samoa, and picked up the cockleshell of a boat with its wretched crew on the morning of February 12th, after they have been sixteen days from the wreck. All hands were well aud hearty in spite of their forbnight of hardship and suffering. The barque was wrecked on her way from Newcastle (N.S.W.) to Honolulu with coal. The missing boat was picked up about 200 miles south-east of Honolulu by the schooner. Tho boat with the remaining five survivors was so nearly in the course of tho Tufb that she came near running ib down.

The five men were in their fifteen-foot open boat for twenty-five days altogether aad sixteen days atter leaving the wrecked Lampson the last time, They confirm the btory of the second mate's futile attempt to eat the fat cabin boy, Willie Hayden, during the first nine days after the wreck and before the two were transferred to the captain's boat.