The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-08-27 00:00:00

A TERRIBLE FATE.

The White Star steamer Britannic brings the news
of a strange disaster which has befallen the people
on board a vessel called the Sara. This unlucky
craft, while sailing between certain ports, was struck
by a heavy sea, and capsized. But, as America's
most famous novelist would have described the po,i-
tion of the ship, she afterwards "turned turtle."
In other words she floated keel upwards. On
board the Sara when she thus inverted her natural
position on the water were, in addition to the captain
and crew, the captain's wife, children, and niece, as
will as the Superintendent of the Baltimore Copper
Mills at Santa Rosa. After such a disaster it might
have been anticipated that none would have survived
to tell the story of the terrible mishap. The captain
and four of his crew, however, contrived in some nn
-
explained way, to get upon the bottom of the vessel,
and there they managed to maintain their hold for
a long time app%rently, for it was not till maddenei
by thirst that two of the sailors ended their sufferings
by plunging into the sea, where they were instantly
devoured by sharks. So far the story, extraordinary
though it is, seems intelligible enough. But there has
probably been some misunderstanding as to the
means taken to support life by these who remained
clinging for eight days to the wreck. The account
before us mentions the capture of turtles as having
supplied the sufferers with something from whicli
sustenance could be derived. No doubt turtles are
capable of furnishing famishing mariners with
nouri-hment ; but it must be confessed that we should
not have expected to find them in company wiih
shark. Whatever may have been the means taken
to prolong life, it was not successful in all cases, as
the terrible fate of the two sailors sufficiently Droves

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