New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-02
WRECK or 4 BOSTON WHILER:
EIGHT DAYS WITHOUT FOoD-TwENrr-Two
LIVES LOST.

EIGHT DAYS WITHOUT FOOD-rWENrl-TWO
LIVES LOST.
The Hartford COurdnt published detailed
account OF the wreck OF the whaling schooner Susan ~
smith, OF BOSTON ia August last and the suffering OF the
crew Tor eight days without food water. The story IL
Who has lust arrived in Hartford. The schooner sailed
from Boston on the Goth OF Feb 1905 on general
whaling voyage IN the Atlantic Ocean, with crew Of
eighteen scamen besides the captain, his wife and two
children On the 2sth OF August the wind had been
blowing fresh and continued INTO me night Dnt u was
nothing like gale of wind At o'clock the next night
was the tempest t1at an hands were called 10
blew a perfect hurricane, yet under close sail
tho vessel was kept on before u ana PLUNGED
madly through the heavy sea- the hlgh rOlilhg waves
making clear over her decks aud sweeping every port
able thing away Az O'Clock, the gale stu growing mora
furious the sails from their fastenlngs as they
were paper balloons. aud, at the same time, heavy
washed the decks from stem TO stern again aud every
small carried into the The vessel than
under bare poles until about o'clock when she
preached To that Is. came To te wind the man &C the
wheel eVluehuy ioaihS an coho vi tno @ i ,h
was the critical time the high seas buried tue
water. Capt. Housewife immediately seized All
and went forward 10 cut away The fOre
ast order that the vessel might right up After cut
ting the rigging all clear he found the mast wouldn't fall
and commenced cutting that but had not given more
gradually, and In half minute at the longest the inasts
lying upon the water, the vessel was clear over;
rOared like heavy thunder The sea was shopping ugly
and dashing wildly from all quarters The gong over
and ALL was 50 quickly done, That the captain uouu no
change his position to get AIT where his wife ana chu
rem aud of his for as soon as the nass
WAS washed away from the foremost After being ia The
two three minutes, most OF she Ln'e uet, ne
she'd against the rigging Of the mainnst anu tuSut
thr getting badly hurt In the he brought up
heavily against tile spar He got GU 10 tne flgglns at
The top OF the mast by crawling through the ratings,
and there found nearly the whole crew ana the Officers
collected and holding on TO ropes ana cnains While
there me secured himself with rope, and the hrt mate
d tha same Here were 20 mUro men IN the rigging.
The vessel rghted Wednesday ana four OF the crew
beside the rsptsln remained upon her. The captains
wife and persied IN the cabin during the storm,
and their bodies were washed away Everything edible
shadn INTO
Ncek the cautan his four companions elung the
Nrrcck-sicht DAYS without food ar water There Is
hardi,, as,,ther such record The testimony
~ ali that the thought OF food scarcely their
minds but their burning THIRST nearly drove thom 90 dis
,rsnf,on Eighg days without drop of water 10
10 ne through this dreadful parchng that neither
conId tak Each tongue was swollen and hing without
~ month As it touched tho roof OF the mouth it
lined there and scaled on In large flakes on Sunday
norupg inc Est sail mat had been IN Sght. since the dis