Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1847-12-09

HORRIBLE SUFFERING ON SHIP BoARD-One Of the
CreW Killed and Edten-We gave Thursday
morning. brief account of the Sutierings of the crew
of the schooner Caroline, derived from two of the
crew who had arrived at Philadelphia. Capt. Smith,
one of the survivors, has since arrived at Boston, and
has furnished the Traveller with the particulars of the
horrible tale
Capt. Smith states that left Tybee Light, mouth
of the Savannah river, October "a. On the 26th,
took heavy gale of wind and sprung a leak By
the disaster, both provisions and water carried
overheard, save that below, which it impossible
to get at. Thus without food or drink Our
only shelter was one BERTH which remained of the
bin on deck, the hold being full of water. Three
days after, Henry Hughes, of the crew, went
deck and never was seen afterwards; he was proba-
bly, washed overheard. e..
| On the Sd inst. We caught water enough from rain
to last twentyfour hours From that time to the 10th
we were totally without water food, and began TO
feel if death very The gale had last
ed eight days. We had nothing to eat for ten, to
drink for six days. We then began to discuss the
question of drawing lots to who should suffer
death to save the lives of the others. We drew, and
it fell to the lot of Irishman, named Charles Brown
who had s. ID. marked OH his arm. He was large,
athletic man. weighing about l75 leo, had ship
ped at Savannah. and unknown TO the rest of the
crew. He alone armed with sheaihe knife,
which he drew, and declared he would plunge il into
the heart of the first who approached carry out
the fatal chance. THIS the retired
cabin saying he would have nothing to do with
the affair, thinking that they all their end
While Captain Smith was below, Henry Rose, a
WEIGH boy, ran into the cabin exclaming, that the
Irshman trying to kill him, alleging that the
youngest should die first; whereupon the captain
seized an adze, and coming on deck shortly after the
boy him seized round the waist by the desperate
Brown, with the intention of making him the victim.
At this moment the captain states that be felt gifted
with extraordinary strength, stepped forward and
drove the adZe twice into the head Of Brown, and he
fell dead upon the deck.
1t is supposed by Capt Smith, from the fact that s.
d. was marked upon the arm Of Brown, that he ship
ped under feigned name. He was about thrty-hve
years old.
After he dead, the captain bled and dressed
him. His flesh partly cut into thin strips and
laid upon the deck to dry. But the crew did not hum
ger for food water being their chief desire. His
blood was used for drink until the morning that they
were taken off, when about pint remained, which
had turned black.
On the morning of the 18th, early, three vessels
hove in sight one of which, the brig Tampico, Capt
Brown bound from New Haven to the West Indies,
took off the three survivors, viz William Smith, Of
Biddeford, Maine, the captain, Horace Smith, of do
the mate and Henry Rose, of Bangor, the boy pre-
served from death by the action Of the captain The
two former were transferred the British schooner
Splendid and arrived at Philadelphia, stated in the
other article.
Capt. Smith states that if Brown had submitted
quietly his fate, he would have had the heart to
have killed him. An idea may be formed of the near
ness of DEATH from the fact that the captains feet
and nails both turned black, and his nails have not as
yet Obtained their natural color.