The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-02-20

Horrors Of the Sea.

Horrors Of the Sea. rei,'
Tile Straits Times of the 10th Of
INoyembel-o contains the affidarits,I
take,, at the. British Consulate, Bata--.
/ via. Of five men, the survivors OF one
/ boats crew Ut the ship Euxine, which
left North Shields Oh the llth Of June
flast with GOALS for Alden. When she
/ was less than two months out, after
she, had Encountered a heavy storm
her cargo Of GOALS was found TO be Oil
fire, and, after, several days Of gallant,
Ibut unsuccessful, struggle with the
.Hanes, the Captain, officers aud crew,
in all tllirtyUhe nien, had to confess
themselves vaaquished, to tileave the
! ship, and to take to their boats in the
| opei sea. The fate of two Of the boats
| is az vet unknown, but those in the
tllitd suffered almost incredible ago
lpies. The second mate, james Archer,
after detailing the sutferings OF their
I boats crew OF seven men from August
-, when they left the ship, says: % On
August 30 our thirst and hunger were
4 intense ;, we commenced to drink salt
water August 3O, Miller drinking more
than any Ut the others. On the 3lst of
August, Miller. got delirious; this was
.nroDably brought about by his drink
iuv so much salt water. He declared
that he offered His body as food for
1.-The others, and entreated them to kill
and .ievour him. We did not heed
him. After time the man Manus
Schutt proposed that they should cast
lots who should fall as u sacrifice for
keeping the others alive. 10 this we
ALL consented, Having no other means
to make Il lottery, we hit upon using
small sticks Of different sizes, decid-
4 ing that the one who drew the small
i est should be the victim. After hav-
iuc made the sticks ready, l held
them Ill MY hand while the Others
drew. :On comparing them together
| we found that the Italian Francis Slu7
fus, held the smallest, stick. Having
also agreed that the lottery should be
| thrice repeated, and that when it
4 should then prove that either two OF
three of lis had drawn the shortest
stick, these should cast lots among
themselves, 50 that the victim might
4 be singled out, we found that the
same man had tor q second time
picked out the same object. Fi,Ihcis
Schufus, when his tor,l came for the
! third drawing, hesitated to join and
would not draw, upon which the n,ai,
;. Sandstrom proposed he would do it
! for him. This he did, and the shortest
) stick was found in SandstrOm's hand.
Shufus bore it with great calnlness,
|, and showed the Utmost resignation.
/, He was. left alone for some two hours,
while we now and then eagerly looked
: round the horizon to see whether a
j. sail could be perceived or any help
would come. We stood upon the
thwarts. shutus prepared himself to
meet his fate by praying and speak Ing
in Italian. He gave us DO parting
message to be sent to his friends,
most probably as he hardly knew
. more English than to say yes and no.
+ His bearing was that of man whose
mind was made up. Seeing we were
past help, and feeling that our llnn-
ger and thirst had grown beyond iur-
ther endurance, we saw ourselves
driven to sacrifice Shutas. lie laid
himself down, but before that August
Muller had told him that he would
:. take his place and die for him. This
J shufus refused, and laying himself
down in the bottom of the boat gave
= himself up to be tied; then one mar
held the empty bouilli tin 50 as tt
catch in it the blood. Muller, on say
> ing that now some one must die f"l
the Others. passed the knife arounc
u the mans throat. He did not strug
Ole or scream. The blood was drum
!. by us all.
e Muller then cut out his liver ano
heart. These we cut into small pieces
e and ate them mixed with the bloot
I and salt water. At the last momen.
G of Sluft,s, I was at the helm. The
}. head and feet were thrown away, tn
. trunk and the limbs were put mt
y one of the air-tight tins Of our life
u boat. Which we had opened. We con
; tinue,l on our way. 1t might hav'
> been 2 o'clock in the afternoon whel
5. the man Shufus died. Some tire
II hours after a ship was seen, which, o.
) perceiving the boat, made for US. u
= nearing the vessel we threw away til
u remains of the corpse. In our ex
i hausted state we were helped o
board. The vessel was the Java Pack
ct, Captain e. Trappen, master, q
Amsterdam, from that port to Bata
= bia. This was on the 31st of Augus1
= We were well treated, and on the 2n
Is of November the vessel arrived a
10 Batavia road.
e.
;ee A good move has been made b
- some members in either branch of tn
General Assembly to stop the work
!, = ing Of convicts outside of the Penitel
~ tiary. We hope it may succeed an