Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1847-11-26
From the n. Y. Com. Advertiser, 18th inst.
| HORRIBLE STORY OF SHIPWRECK

day or two ago we published under our
marine head a deploIable account of a ship
wreck, given by survivors from the wreck of
schooner Caroline, Capt. VIM. Smith, bound
from Savannah for Bath. Capt. Smith arri-
! Fed at Boston yesterday morning, and furnish
el the following to the editors of the Travel
| Ter
Captain Smith states that he left Tybee
| Light, mouth OF the Savannah River, October
oath. On the 26th, took heavy gale of wind
from n. F.. and sprung aleak, in lat. 80 43,
long. II. Laid to all that day. At P. NJ.
was thrown on her beam ends, but on cutting
away the weather lanyards she righted.
On the 3lst, spoke barque Isaac Mead,
Brown, from Savannah for New York the
barque laid by us from A. NJ. to P. NJ,
but tremendous sea prevented them from
rendering us any assistance Our provisions
and water were all stored in the trunk cabin
on deck, save one barrel of water in the run.
BY the disaster, both provisions and water
were carried overheard, save that below, which
it was impossible to get at. Thus we were
without food or drink.
Our only shelter was one berth, which re-
manned of the cabin on deck, the hold being
full of water. Three days after, Henry
Hughes, one of the crew, went on deck, and
was never seen afterwards he was probably
washed overheard
On the Sd inst, we caught wafer enough
from rain TO last twenty four hours. From
that time to the 10th, we were totally without
water or food, and began to feel as if death
was very near US. The gale had lasted 8
days We had nothing to eat for ten, or TO
drink for six days We then began to dis
cuss the question of drawing lots to see who
lSho to fho of no
others.
1t was agreed that we should use sticks
We drew, and it fell to the lot of an 1rishman
named Charles Brown, who had s. D. marked
on his arm He was a large athletic man,
weighing about IFS or 1870, had shipped at
Savannah, and was unknown to the rest OF
the crew.
He alone was armed with a sheath knife,
which he drew, and declared he would plunge
into the heart of the first one who approached
to carry out the fatal chance. Upon this the
captain retired to the cabin, saying he would
have nothing more to do with the affair, think
ing that they were all near their end
AT this moment boy named Hughie Rose,
of Bangor, Wales, aged 10, spoke up and said
that the Youngest should die first; this free
will offering was about to be accepted by
Brown, as the captain, with the boy, went in
to the cabin. Captain Smith states that as he
, threw himself upon the berth his eye was at
tracted to handle sticking up near, which
he thought belonged to an adZe. He told the
boy to fetch it, and it proved TO be an adze.
: Thinking that something wrong was abou:
to be enacted on deck, he followed the boy
when he returned, and saw the boy seized
round the waist by the now desperate Brown
with the intention of making him the victim
! At this moment the captain states that he Tell
gifted with extraordinary strength, stepped
I forward and drove the adze twice into the
head of Brown, and he fell dead upon the
deck.
f 1t is supposed by Captain Smith, from thu
, fact that S. D. was marked upon the arm O.
| Brown, that he shipped under feigned name
: He was about IS years Old
t After he was dead, the Captain bled an6
dressed him. His flesh was partly cut into
} thin strips and laid upon the deck to dry. Bu
t the crew did not hunger for food, water being
f their chief desire. His blood was used fo
, drink until the morning that they were taker
off, when about pint remained, which hat
turned black.
On the morning of the 18th, early, three
| vessels hove in sight. one of which, the bris
Tampico, Capt, Brown, bound from New Ha
ven for the West Indies, took off the three
survivors, viz: VIM. Smith, of Biddeford, Me
! the captain, Horace Smith, of do, the mate
/ Hughie Rose, of Bangor, the boy preserves
from death by the action of the Captain. Th'
f two former were transferred to the Br. Schr
Splendid, and arrived at Philadelphia, as sta
t ted in the other article
E The boy was retained On board the Tampl
co, the captain promising to take care of him
D ted quietly to his fate, they would not hav
4 had the heart to have killed him; but he di
not think 1t right that the boy, after running
| one chance for his life, could after all becom
the victim, and he appears to think that he " a
T suddenly gifted with .etrcn-th 10 save him