Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1868-03-07
Famine ai Sea.

| MELANCHOLY STORT OF SrFFlRING
on Board THE American ScavOS
IN MOsEs WARINu,
The Gibrsltsr ChroRirle Of Janua,
~ 20 states that the British bark
Minnie Gordon, which arrived al
, that port on the preceding day from
New York, brought tho master aud
two seamen of the United States
schooner Moses Waring, This YES
sci was waterlogged in a gale, and
on the 18th Of December was fallen
in with by the Minnie Gordon,
when the survivors of her crew were
taken OFF tho wreck in tho last siage
Of debility from exposure and fam
inc. BY the humane aud judicious
exertions Of Mr., Leslie, the master
of the Minnie Gordon, their lives
were preserved, but they still stand
in need OF medical treatment, The
dreadful talo of their suiierings Is
thus given by Captain LCsli"'
December is, lat, 3S 10 n, long
-, W., scudding OF S, + by T., un.
der double.reeled topsails, iorc'ail,
reefed mainsail, aud f6retop' mast
staysail, wind W. n. W., blowing
hard, and heavy sea running. As
daylight broke saw, bearing y, n,
l., from me, something which look
cd like two spars buoys, standing
at an angle ofG0 degrees, just as far
as the eye could make ont with tho
glass that il was vessel wa,crlog'
gcd and on her beam ends. Then
determined to go close enough to
ascertain if there were any Of tho
crew still on the wreck. At $50
A. NJ. could with the glass make
out what appeared two men upon
the port quarter. On approaching
nearer saw three men waving II
piece of white canvass stood close
up under the lce of the wreck aud
hove to; got out large boat, in doing
which stove one side of her. Mr..
Charles Miller, chief officer, and
three seamen started for the wreck
After great eyertion and hard
pull succeeded in getting the captain
and two remaining men in the boat,
and got safely back 10 the bark,
hoisted in the boat, and proceeded
on the voyage, taking tho weak,
famished men into the cabin whcro
there was stove, giving them dry
clothing and some stimulants and
small quantities of water often re-
peated, they having had nothing to
eat or drink for seven days and
nights, with the exception of when
the mate died, two days previously,
they all cut some of his raw flesh
and ate it, the cook having died be-
fore the mate, and his>body washed
overheard.
They were complete skeletons the
captain being in tho worse condi-
ton; his checks were sunk in till
they appeared to touch each other;
their feet and legs as high as their
knees were completely paralyzcd
and dead from long exposure and
submerson in cold water and want
of exercise, as they had just enough
of the wreck above water to hold
on o. They could not possibly
have survived that day through had
not Providence kindly sent me to
their assistance. | gave them food
by degrees, with small doses Of
brandy and water, and rubbed their
feet with soap linimcnt; then put
them to sleep in the warm cabin.
On waking the captain gave me
the following account of the loss OF
his vessel, stating that two days
previous to my falling in with him,
a brig, westward bound, name un-
known to him, saw them and stood
towards tn en- until quite near
(weather moderate a the timc)
when he put up his helm and ran
away from them. The schooner
was the Moses Warm, Of Now York,
from Brunswick. Georgia. bound
to New York with cargo ofycllow
pine hoorlnS; encountered q hcavy
N. E. gale on December llth, when
fifty miles S E. of Absccon, short,
ly after which sprang leak, and
was unable with both pumps going
to keep her free; she settled so deep,
and becoming unmanagcablc, they
cut the gripes which held the deck
load, and had no sooner accomplish
ed this than she fell over on her
beam ends, and the heavy sea run
ming at the time over her washing
away deck load, cabin on deck, and
all water and provisions, leaving
them perfectly destitute Of every
thing but the clothing they stood
in. Their sufferings must have been
very great, so much so that they
found themselves obliged TO cut up
the mates body. who had unfortu
nately succumbed before them on
the fifth day. did everything in
my power to make them comforta-
bic, and finally succeeded in bring
ing them 20 life.