The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1847-12-01
|. HORRIBLE STORY OF SHIP.
WRECK

IrOn the wreck Ol tuC schooner IaToHtlc,
Car,uln William Smith, huGnd from Sa-
van:,,h for Bath Cart,in Smith tas ar
rived *, boston, ana furnished the following
to the cdilcrs ol the Yfurciter -
Captain Smith states that he left Tybcc
Light: mouth OF the Savannah River, O@to-
Der 2Ith On the 2Gth, took Il heavy gale
OF wind :rom \. il. and sprung Il leak in
lat. 50 I3. long. II. Laid 10 all that day
At u. NJ. was thrown on her beam ends,
bit on cutting away the weather lanyard;
she rgh:cd.
Oa the 3ls;, spoke barque Isaac Mead,
Brown, from Savannah for New York;
t!.c barquc lail by US from a. M. to p.
NJ, Eut u tremendous sea prevented them
from rendering lis any assistance. Our
provisions and water were all stored in the
trunk cabin Oh deck, save one barrel OF WA
irr in tAc ruin. by tho disaster, both pro-
Visions 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
remained OF the cabin on deck, the hold be-
ing full OF waicJ. Three days after, Hcn,y
! Hughes, one Of the crew, went OF deck and
; was never seen afterwards, he was proba
bly, washed OvcrDOlr!.
On the Ord instant we caught wafer
enough from rain to las; twenty four hours.
From shat time to the lUll we We're totally
without water or food, and hogan TO feel Us if
death were near u> The gale had lasted
/ cIyh, days. We had nothing to cat for ten,
pr to drink for six days. We then began
10 discuss :lc question Of drawing lots to sec
who should suffer death to save the lives of
!; the others.
| 1t was agreed that we should use sticks.
| We drew and i. fell to the lot of an Irish
/ man, named Charles Brown, who had S. ID.
marked on his arm. He was large ath-
lctic man, weighing about IT'S or l8O, had
| shipped at Savannah, and was unknown 10
! the rest Of tho crew.
| He alone was armed with sheatho
knife, which Lc drew and declared no
would plunge into the heart Of the frs, 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, thinking that
they were all near their end
At this moment boy named Hughio
Rose, of Bangor, Maine, aged 10 spoke up
and said that the youngest should die first,
this free will offering was about to be ac-
ceptcd by Brown, as the captain with The
boy went into the cabin. Captain Smith
states that as he threw himself upon the
berth his eye was attracted to a handle
sticking up near, which he thought belong
ed to an adzc. He told the boy TO fetch it,
and it proved to be an adzc.
Thinking that something wrong was
about TO be enacted ON deck, he followed
the boy when he returned, and saw the boy
seized round the waist by the now despe-
rate Brown, with the intention Of making
him the victim. 1t this moment the cap
tain states that he felt gifted with extraordi-
nary strength, stepped forward and drove
the adze twice into the head of Brown, and
he fell dead upon The deck
1t is supposed by Captain Smith, from the
fact that S. d. was marked upon the arm
Of Brown, that he shipped under fcigncd
name. lie was about 35 years old.
| After he was dead, the captain blcd and
dressed him His flesh was partly cut into
thin strips and laid upon the deck to dry
But the crcw did not hunger lor food, water
being their chief desire. His blood was
used ior drink until the morning that they
which had turned black.
VII tiiS llfoI'lHS VI INC lou carly, tHlcc
vessels hove in sight, one Of which, tho
brig Tamplco. Captain Brown, bound from
New Haven for the West Indies, took off
the three survivors, viz VIM Smith, Of
Biddeiord, Maine, the captain, Horace
Smith, of do. the mate, Hughie Rose, of
Bangor, the boy preserved from death by
the action Of the captain The two former
were transferred TO the Br. schr. Splendid,
and arrived at Philadc phia, as stated in tho.
other article.
The boy was retained on board the Tam
pico, the captain promising to take care Of
him. Captain Smith states that if Brown
had submitted quietly to his fate, they would
not have had the heart to have killed him ::
but he did not think it was right that the
boy, after running one chance for his life,
should after all become the victim, and he