MAROONED FOR MONTHS
.^» ..- CAPTAIN AND CREW OF A WRECKED SCHOONER. <By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.) NEW YORK, 11th July. The steamer City of Sydney has arrived at San Francisco with the rescued captain, eight of the crew, and two babies, children of the captain, from the wrecked schooner Mokonies. They were marooned for five months at Clepperton Island, off the Mexican coast. The party anticipated being rescued by a Mexican gunboat from Tampico, but the Constitutionalists captured ana sank her. There is a small Mexican colony on the island. When food ran low throe of the crew started for the mainland, arriving after seventeen days of great suffering from shortness of food and water. The cruiser Cleveland rescued the party.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 11, 13 July 1914, Page 7
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118MAROONED FOR MONTHS Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 11, 13 July 1914, Page 7
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