Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-01-04
Wreck of the Schooner Caroline,

CONTAIN Oh eCCOuHs OI Inc wreck OF the
schooner Caroline, bound from Savannah
to Bath, notice Of which was given in
our telegraph despatch Of Wednesday eve.
ming.
Capt. Smith arrived in this city, yester.
day lnorning. from Philadelphia. The
schooner was insured at the Neptune office
in this city, for $4,000.
The following is from the Traveller
Captain Smith states that he left Tybee
Light mouth of theSavannah River, Oct.
oath. On the 9th, took heavy gale OF
wind from N. E. and sprung leak, in
lat. 81 43, long. II. Laid to all that day.
At P. NJ. thrown on her beam ends, but
on cutting away the weather lanyards she
righted.
On the 3lst, spoke barque Isaac Mead,
Brown, from Savannah tor New York
the barque laid by US from A. M. to 4
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 bar
rel 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 either food or drink.
Our only shelter was one berth which
remained 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 water enough
from rain to last "a hours. From that
time TO the 10th, were totally without wa
ter or TODD, and began to feel as if death
was very near US. The gale had lasted
8 days. We had had nothing to eat for
ten, or to drink for six days. We then
began to discuss the question of drawing
lots to see whe should suffer death to save
tho lives of the others. 1t was agreed
that we should use sticks. We drew, land
1t fell to the lot Of an Irishman named
Charles Brown, who had S. ID. marked
on his arm. He was a large athletic
man, weighing about ITS or $50, had
shipped at Savannah, and was unknown
TO the rest of the crew. He alone was
armed with a sheathe knife, which he
drew, and declared he would plunge into
the heart ofthe 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. thinking that they were all near
/ their end.
, The journal states that John Lock.
wood, a sick seaman, was drowned on the
first day of the gale, and that the captain
1 on going to his berth after casting lots,
? requested that his life might be taken.--
The Traveller adds further to the statemen,
' Of Captain Smith, that if Brown had SUBJ
mitted quietly to his fate, they would no
= have had the heart to have killed him.
It At this moment boy named Hughit
a Rose, of Bangor, Wales, aged 10, spoke
E up and said that the youngest should dit
J. first: this free will Offering was about t.
y be accepted by Brown, as the captain
: with the boy went into the cabin. Capt
a Smith states that as he threw himself upol
,fI the berth, his eye was attracted to han
d die sticking up near, which he though
!. belonged to an adze. He told the boy t
W fetch it, and it proved to be an adze.
= Thinking that something wrong wa
;, abou: to be enacted on deck, he followe
e the boy when he returned. and saw tn,
5, boy seized round the waist by the nov
II desperate Brown, with the intention G
n making him the victim. At this moment
'r the captain states, that he felt gifted wit
8. extraordinary strength, stepped forwar
Id and drove the adze twice into the head @
'r Brown, and he fell dead upon deck.
y is supposed by Captain Smith iron
10 the fact that S. D. was marked upon tn
D. arm of Brown, that he shipped under
70 teigned name. He was about 80 year
e. old.
After he was dead, the Captain Bile
- and dressed him. His flesh was partl
~ cut into strips and laid upon the deck t
N dry. The crew did not hunger for food
~ water being their chiefdesire. His bloc
g was used for drink until the morning tha
- they were taken off, when about a pir
: remained, which had turned black.
ne On the morning of the 18th, early,thre
; :: vessels hove in sight. one Of which, tn
70 Tampico, Capt. Brown, bound from Ne'
he Haven for the West Indies, took off th
" three survivors, viz: VIM. Smith, of Bee
deford, Me-, the Capt; Horace Smith, {
do. the mate; Hughie Rose, of Bango
a Wales, the boy preserved from death b
'te the action of the captain. The two fo
- meH were transferred to the BIRTHS
lid schooner Splendid, and arrived at Phil'
Is; delPhia. r5
nd lie ---------- ---
We Or A Commander of Malta, very
'o- varieious, had two pages, who once cor
ne planned to him that they had no shirts
its wear. He called his major .domo: