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at the same time dragging us toward it. “At two o’clock in the morning the center struck us. In less than ten minutes the ship was a complete wreck.
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“As soon as it was light Uncle Jack began to examine her and found the ship half full of water. There was a great hole at the foot of the mainmast. They patched it up and started the steam pumps, but it was useless, and at 7 o’clock Uncle Jack came in to tell us that we must take to the boats at once as the ship was sinking. Narrowly Escaped Savages. In describing the four days in the boat Miss Piper says:
“As I look back on it now the cruelest part of it all was when we feasted our eyes on the beautiful shores so near by and yet, famished for a drink of water, Uncle Jack shook his head and made the men row out to sea in spite of our begging and pleading. Then it was that woman-like, we broke down, and our delirious ravings must have made it all the harder for the captain and the patient sailors.”
The beautiful shores of which she speaks were those of Botel Tobago, a little island 50 miles out to sea from the mainland, inhabited by the most dangerous savages in that part of the globe. Capt. Hoelstad, who knew all about them, wouldn’t hear of landing there.
“Our boat rowed so near to the shore,” continued Miss Piper, “that we could see parties of natives wildly brandishing their spears. Their war canoes were just off the beach and Uncle Jack would not go any nearer for fear that they might attack us. Four Days in an Open Boat. “Uncle Jack knew if we were not saved within a few hours we should all go mad and die, so he drove the men mercifully on for the Cape of Formosa. Never shall I forget the dreadful and indescribable expression of their faces.
“At midnight on the fourth day of our wanderings they sighted Garambi Light, off the Cape. Delicious tears of joy rolled down my cracked and blistered cheeks as I saw that barren rock with its light – emblem of civilization. Trembling we rounded the point and pulled into the bay close by the light. We could not land as there were breakers on the beach, so Mr. Stenke and a Japanese sailor swam ashore and went to the light to get help. After a long time two Japanese offi cers came and guided us into a safe landing place. We
were happy people to get on land once more. “I seemed to have awakened from dreadful nightmare after four days at sea.” Late Shipping Notes.
The new four-masted schooner HENRY
F. KREGER of Alderman Crosby’s fl eet, Bath, is completed and ready for sea but will not leave for Brunswick, Georgia, until the present cold wave is over.
In St. John, N. B., with the evidence all before the court and part of the argument of counsel heard, the case of the Yarmouth bark REFORM vs. the Eastern S. S. Co.’s steamer CALVIN AUSTIN was adjourned until a date to be named for further argument. This case grew out of a collision in Boston harbor last July. In court Tuesday Dr. A. A. Stockton, K. C., of St. John, argued for the defense and E. S. Dodge, Esq., of Boston presented the argument for the REFORM. Capt. J. L. Coombs of Boston arrived in Bath Saturday. He is going in command of the four-masted schooner FRONTENAC building at Kelley, Spear & Co.’s for John S. Emery & Co., of Boston. The craft will be ready for launching in March. Capt. Coombs had charge of the construction of the four- master CALUMET of which he has been in command up to a few weeks ago. * * * * *
Men Frozen to the Hull
The Terrible Experience of the Crew of the Schooner AYER.
Gloucester, Massachusetts, January
6. – The hardy fi shermen of Gloucester are familiar with the harrowing experiences of seamen in winter, but a number of them Wednesday said that the story of suffering and privations, which the crew of the British schooner AYER have just passed is of the worst ever heard here. The fi ve men who comprise the crew of the schooner including Capt. J. A. Sebean of St. John, N. B., were brought in here Wednesday by the fi sherman, JENNIE B. HODGDON, whose captain, Parkman Hodgdon, and two men had performed a daring rescue, having sighted the AYER, disabled, and on Monday morning in spite of tremendous seas and the frightful cold, in ice-coated dories, taken on the AYER’s men who were almost at the point of death.
The rescued men are Capt. J. A. Sebean,
Mate Joseph Vitner, Cook William Ben and Seaman John Ellison and Hans Petersen. When the Hodgdon reached here, although everything possible had been done by her
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