SHIPWRECKED CREW.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8014, 28 December 1905, Page 3

SHIPWRECKED CREW.

SOKYIVOKS' '.TERRIBLE I STORY. The White .Star steamer H;iHic from New York which arrived in London I 'i'ehi'y., details cf. a Icrrible case of shipwreck and peril at sea. T*e story is told h.y the two survivors, named Thomas and Warner,- of the crew of eight personsi of the schooner ■ Van Name and King 1 , had witnessed the deaths in turn of who were picked up by the schooner S. ¥. Kelly after having lived through five days of fearful suffering on a(,> raft, During that |tiine they each of their six shipmates, who had sought refuge cm a raft, some being washed away by, the seas, some dying of Exposure, and some going mad and hurling themselves into the sea. According to the story of ihc survivors, on which they had shipped as seamen, set 'out! from Charleston S.C., oa Oct. 3, (with hard pine, bound for New?, York. She encountered a gale two days 'later/ ijnd within a fcw hourg it had carriedjaway tho canvas, flooded the hold, ami choked the pumps.

The men passed the -night lashed t the rigging, tha bulwarks, and the top of the deckhouse. The Itmg nigfiti passed, and Friday 1 morning, found the schooner on her beam ends. The crew) took refuge ' oiVi the weather rail and held on as best they could. The storm increased 1 in! fury as night came on again, and one great wave crashed aboard, breaking hoth legs of .Seaman Arthur, 'and sweeping Seaman Grizell into the sea.

It was apparent 'thai, the -wreck would soon Income untenable, and the half-starved and almost exhausted crew set about fashioning a raft. They look the top of the ileckheuse, buoyed it with timbers from the cargo, launched it, and dropping:into it, cut the line that held it under the lee quarter, ami in another moment wen' swept, j[nr'"tol leoward -by tho running s-eas. | Seaman, Arthur died in Ithe arms of Captain (Maxwell that night, and to Tvlievu the overloaded rail; his body was (hopped into.the sea.

The gale continued, land the men held on with enfeebled sirenigth until Sunday, when t he storm "abated. The day also brought, a ray vf hope in the shajH' of a distant sail. But this passed out cf .sight, and with it all hope of rescue. The mind of tliii mate. K. A. Chase, became unhinged as Juj saw the sail disappear, and, rising from his cramped position 'oil the raft, he flung himself into the sua. The next victim was Captain Maxwell, I who iw Alunda.v forenoon,became violently .insane. He had illusions that his father vug coming in a tjoat to rescue him, and then, as if directing the 'boat along side, stepped into the sea. The spectacle of two I men throwing j themselves into the sea proved too much for the engineer; and' a' few hours after Captain Maxwell's death tho raft was lightened lor the fourth time 'when the cra/ed engineer jumped into ■the waves. The last victim was the steward, hUo dii.il on the.raft late on Mond,i. night, and whose body was| droppetl ' overboard by the two remaining seamen, lielief came twelve hours later, when the schooner hound tc Host on sighted the rait and hove alongside. lioth Thcmas ami Warner had to tetuken oft ill slings, aird for two days they were unable to movei The rescuo took place off Cape .Lookout in latitude 33.10 and longitude 7<>.3l>.

sfr Alexander Farqithnison. for over fifty years i a (irenl Western Railway guard from I'add'nirt on to Plymouth, died iwi,i! S ttt IJnmiderfel, Merionethshire, i, the a""e of seventy-four. Jlis tra yelling record amounted to more tl.ii i thive million miles. On several occasions he was requisitioned tc conduct the Itoyal trauy- , . , itaU-. ..--..a. '