STEAMER SWEPT INLAND.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19069, 15 January 1924, Page 8

STEAMER SWEPT INLAND.

CARRIED BY HUGE WAVE. rescue of the crew. A tale that in its startling facts exceeds the invention of imagination of story tellers came over the telegraph win* form Seldovia, Alaska, following the . finding of two “mystery ships, the Agram and the Onyx, which were missing for 42 days and 37 days respectively after they had sailed from Seldovia in October. Caught on the crest of a mammoth tidal wave, the Agram was carried inland on an uninhabited island, lying OU m ilqs west of Kodiak Island, acqprding to the half-starved crew, rescued by the steamer Jugoslav recently. . Their ship stranded and wicked beyond hope of navigation, H. H. Malcolm, of the Seldovia Cannery, Captain Anderson and his crew, none of whom was fatally injured in the disaster, subsisted on the flesh of porcupines and shell-fish. Inadequately clothed, slowly starving, with the rigorous winter rapidly coming on the days dragged into weeks, and the passing of a month without sight of a friendly sail all but killed hope. Fate seemed to stack the cards against them, for the Onyx, despatched in search of the Agram, was wrecked some two weeks later on a nearby island, where her crew took up an existence parallel to that of the men they had tried tc find. , , . T By a stroke of good fortune the Jugoslav found both crews after hope for them had been given arp by their home folks. Despite the hardship every member of both crews survived the harrowing experience. The Agram sailed from Seldovia on October 11. and the Onyx was despatched six days later in search for her. The Jugo-slav was sent out after both ships on November 11 at the order of Governor Scott Bone of Alaska.