A SHIPWRECKED CREW.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 180, 25 April 1908, Page 10

A SHIPWRECKED CREW.

TERRIBLE,EXPERIENCES. Early oil Saturday morning, (March 7) the crew of ..the ; American: schooner William H. Skinner,, of Baltimore,'.-which foundered in : tho' Atlantic while on a Carolina to Nowhavcii; were landed in'BolVfast by the s.s. Bray' Head. The crew of the 'schooner. underwent - somo frightful, experi-onces..-She was only: oiio- day. out : from tho. American coast when she sprang a leak. .Water came, in gradually,',; and althoiigh" the ipumps ' were- kept in constant: motion' it's, volume Was steadily on .tho : increase.; To. worse, the vessel was' struck by a violent squall, and with tho water in •the' hold becoming gradually' doeper'and,thc ;gale,.-increasing : 111 velocity,' the-' plight' of those oil" board became worse. The little craft capsized, but fortunately ; each of the crew managed to cling' to tho side of the' vessel.' After tlio squall had subsided they lashed themselves together to tho-'wreckage. All the -food tho.v had were two tins .of pre-' iierved,meat, containing in all about' 41b. > As day'succeeded day and there was no sign , of relief in the shape of a passing steamer tho moil began to. relinquish liopo of rescup. There was little "drinking water - available, and tho scanty supply was "sparing] v districted. ', F of, sis days and nights this -state of affairs lasted, tho' crew clinging to tho wrockago and maintaining . all the. whilo a' keen look-out. -On ono occasion 'a steamer Was. sighted, but the signals of distress' wero not observed,'and 'What made .their- misery moi'o intense .was tlio fact every hour' the vessel.was drifting, more,'any more out of the ordinary track. of,' Atlantic; traffic.. Hopo. waii all but abandoned when, on ti'O morning of February. 22,' thoy heard wliat turned out to bo tho whis.tie of the Bray Hoad. A lifeboat manned by: six men was launched from the Bray Head] audlrowed towards the..survivors,• Who- raised ■ a frantio but .faint chtier.as their rescuers approach--When-taken- on board tho-Brav Headeverything possible • was ■ done. for. their ■'oom : fort; ''but--•itv-wr.s: several>'days •beforei'the emttciated .men regained-their normal-health., ,' A' Pi-ejnior'w'ho has vXhMf bo'stowo'd-'. sti* many coronets upon his faithful" followers'' neod have no superfluous scruples about setting one on his own head.—"Groehio."