AN OCEAN HORROR.
V .- The Hawaiian barque Lilian, which -I .arrived at Honolulu recently, brought " some news of an unusually sensatioual 1 character. Long ago the schooner General Seigel was given up as lost. She left Honolulu September 1, 1886, in command of Captain Asberdine, alias Sanders, chartered from the Pacific Nnvig&tion Company ■ for a, six months' sharking expedition to French Frigate Shoals. She obtained a full load of sharks' fins, oil, &c, and waa ■ ' returning to Honolulu when she went ashore on one of the twin Midway Isles, near Ocean Island, lately made famous by the wreck of the British ship Dunottav Castle. The Seigel became a total wreck, ; her captain and crew reaching land in safety. On the islands the experience of the party_ was tragic in the extreme. Peter Larkin had his hand blown off while tish- ■ ing with dynamite or giant powder, dying in 15 days. The boat of the Dnnottar Castle, left at Ocean Island, had drifted to Midway Isles. This was decked by the company for making a passage tosorae more populous region of the Pacific. Before they were ready for departure a dispute ■ arose between the mate Johnson and Captain Sanders, a sailor named Rrown being present, tho end of which wn* that I ." Johnson murdered bis two componions. The quarrel was caused by Johnson in- ' sisting that the party shonld embark for Honolulu, and the captain desiring to head for the south-western groups. Johnson returned to the rest of the ' crew, who were on the other side ot the island, and told a story of the captain having killed Brown anil then committed ■aicide. Disbelieving Johnson, and fearing that he could get away with tlie boat, the others stove the boat in and proceeded to fit out another craft. This ■was a Japanese sand boat, left by Captain Paul Bohm when at the isles fishing in the schooner Kaulilua, now of the Interiiland Steam Navigation Company's fleet They constructed ouc-riders and rigged np a spar and sail, and when the work was completed they set sail, leaving the mate, who seemed to be out ot his wits, on the island. The Marshall Group was reached in 20 days, lour men being in the boat.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7957, 23 January 1888, Page 4
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372AN OCEAN HORROR. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7957, 23 January 1888, Page 4
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