The Huntington argus. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1872-1905, 1873-10-17

Sunri-. left New York on the 81 OF NAV.
Captain Clarke commanding. The fr.t
officers name j. Harris. the second officer
Denis Naloney, aud the boAt-wain name
is Kelly
The fret day after leaving New York
the first mate commenced to exercise
tyranny as cruel aud unrelentng ~ it Wa
barbsrou- and savage. and continued
this conduct until San Francisco wa-
reached. The second mate (Malony) did
not beat or in any manner cruelty tr-ai
the sailors. but o.ten intertered to prevent
the first mate from carrying hI- brutal
pun shnent to extremes The bOatswsin
(Keljy) used tn lick tie sailors often,
aud the captain joined IN this brutal con.
duct, which he tolerated. Or appeared TO
tolerate. IN the man iiarri-. The fir-t OF
hcer made the men work until they drop
ped down through exhaustion. lie '-oui
bring them ont Of beh nj night, and COM
pei them to walk on deck, aud it they
dii not keep moving. or perchance Tell
asleep a. they stood or walked, he would
tap them on tnc head with hs clenchtd
fist, "a belsyin- -pin. piece OF rope, or any
thing handy When he wished to awake
them on other occasions he u-el hi- pom
drrou- boots freely, ami the poor sailor =
sides are al evidence 81 the fact This
used to he a regular thing, and all we're
treated alike. The captain struck the
men occasionally. and know well of the
first officer $ conduct, who abused the IneE
IN his presence, but not with his Usual
brutal severity.
THREE MEN WENT OVERHEARD
/ Two preferred death, to the treatment
they received. and the third. weak IA ii
exhausted, alter long aud severe punish
ment, Tell from the rigging aud was seen
TO more The first victim was John
Brown, Il Freuchmsn. His comtrymAu
says he knows not how he was lOss tie
was to have been on watch between 3 and
/ II o clock NJ. he WAS called everyw here.
but he answered not The fret mite
licked him every day Two or three times;
made him work twenty out OF twenty. fonr
hour- would throw him violently to ia,
deck aud kick him. II was after all thIs
terrible punishment haI been afflicted mp
on him, aud that hS was comp, lied To
stand motonless on the deck for twnnty-
four hours without food or water, that lac
abandoned the Sunrise aud his l''.. aud
sought relief IN the unisthomnb'r depths
of the ocean.
Cardiff WAS treated with the game cruelty
A. Br WIN, aud even worse lie was not
allowed TO sleep IN the loreca-tl- hut was
put under the topgallant iorrcastle, where
he WAS compelled to sleep Tor fifteen
u. hts previous to tne night he il reported
missing, with hogs tor his companions
What 4 terrible crime llow II cries To-
Heaven for reiresI The man was half
demented from sutfering--irom cruel
treatmert-from " tipping, kicking, walk
inr, working, little food aud less 7leep,
wher, TO escape from life made miserable
beyond endurance, he employed the little
strength he had lett to end his existence
The third victim. " f X Carrigan.
was yrung man, twenty Years OF aye
or perhaps less lie Was the especial OBJ
Iect Of the hate and brutality Of the first
mate lIarri-l. lie Na-, after the usual
daily kicking and bruislng with rope aud
club, iorc-l to stand Oh deck twenty -four
hours without eating or sleeping after
which he was sent To the top sail ward
from which he tell through ~rakne- and
exhaustion, and was lost Bell did hot
see CARR an fi,ll, nor did he zee any Of the
missing disappear They disappeared, and
nothing more WAS thought OF them.