The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1826-05-03

DREADFUL NARRATIVE OF the snnerlnSs OF
the crew and passenger. of the Frances Ma
ry, from st. Johns, New Brunswick, to Liv-
erpool.
"Sailed from St. Johns, Jan. 49,
Feb. /, strong gales from w. N. w.
carried away the main top-mast and miz-
en- mast head. At IL, p M. shipped a
heavy sea, which washed away the cam
bouse, jolIy-b and disabled 8 men.
Feb. 5, IL, A. NJ shipped a sea, which
carried away the long boat, companion,
tiller, unshipped the rudder, the best
bower chain, and washed a man over
board, who was afterwards saved. At
IL, ION. another heavy sea struck US,
which stove our stern in. Cut away
our foremost and both bower anchors TO
keep the ship TO the Windy knock
ing the bow-port out, saved 80 lbs. of
bread, and 5 lbs. of cheese, which we
slowed in the main top--at daylight
found Patrick Cooney hanging by his
legs to the catharpius, dead, from IA
tigue. Feb. 6, put the people on a
short allowance of quarter of bis
cult a day.
"Feb. 10, departed this life, james
Clarke; seaman. We were at this time
on half gill of water day, and suffer-
ing much from hanger. During the
whole period of being on the wreck,
we were wet from top TO toe. Feb. GO,
John Wilson, seaman, died; preserved
the body of the deceased, cut him up in
quarters, washed them, and hung them
up on pins. Feb. 90, j. Moore died,
and was thrown overheard, having eat
en- part of him, such as the liver and
heart From this date to Saturday, the
9Th of March, the following number
persisted from hunger Henry Davis,
Welsh boy; Alexander Kelly, sea-
man; John Jones, apprentice boy,
! nephew of the owner; James Frer,
cook; Daniel Jones, seaman; John
Hutchinson, seaman; and John Jones,
COY; threw the last named overheard,
his blood being bitter; also, James Fri
er, who was working his passage home,
under a promise of marriage TO Ann
Saunders, the female passenger who at
tended on the masters wife; and who,
when she heard Of FrieI's death. shrek
ed loud yell; then snatching cup
from Clarke, mate cut her late intend
ed husbands throat, and drank his
blood, Insisting that she had the great
est right to it, A scufile ensued, and
the heroine (the words of the narrator)
got the better of her adversary, and
then allowed him to dink one cup TO her
two!
"Feb. 26.-On or about this day an
English brig hove in sight-kept his
course about one mile distance, and we
soon lost sight of him. Had he at this
time taken us off the wreck, much of
the subsequent dreadful suffering would
have been spared US. March Ills |
Majesty's ship Blonde came in sight,
and TO our relief, in lat. Al 43, N. Ion.
81 81, w. Words are quite inadequate
to express our feelings, as we'll as those
which Lord Byron and our deliverers
most evidently possessed, when they
found they had come to rescue six of
their fellow creatures 1.-TWO of them fe-
males) from most awful, lingering, but
certain death. 1t came on to blow dur
ing the night fresh gale, which would,
no doubt, have swept us all overheard.
Lieutenant Gambler came in the ships
cutter TO bring US from the wreck. He
observed TO us, You have yet, per-
ceive, fresh meat;" to which we were
compelled TO reply, No, sir, it is part
of man, one of our unfortunate crew
1t was our intention to put ourselves on
an allowance even. of this food, this
evening, had not you come to our re-
lief The masters wife, who under
went all the most h0rrid sufferings
which the human derstanding can i'm
agine, bore them much better than
could possibly have been expected. She
is now, although much emaciated, a re-
spectacle, good looking woman, about
25 years of age, and mother of boy
Z years of age. But, what must have
been the extremity of want to which
she was driven, when she eat the brains
of one of the apprentices, saying il was
the most delicious thing she ever tasted
and 1t is still more melancholy to relate,
the person whose brains she was thus
forced by hunger to eat, had been three
times wrecked before, but providentia- |
ly picked up by vessel, after being 22
days on the wreck water logged but
in the present instance he persisted, hav-
ing survived similar sufferings for the |
space OF 90 days, and then became food
for his remaining shipmates Ann Saun-
ders, the other female, had more
strength in her calamity than most of
the men; she performed the duty of
cutting up and cleaning the dead bodies,