The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-11-17
RESLUE AT SEA.
Three Days Without Food or Drink
Living on SharkS.


The brig Nellie Ware, Capt. Ashbury,
from Minatitlan, arrived at this port
yesterday after a stormy voyage of forty
days. Capt. Ashbury made the follow
ing statement to reporter
We had fine weather to Thursday,
Oct. 10, when off Jupiter inlet We Gu
countered a hurricane from east-north-
east, blowing dead on shore, which was
not very far distant. We carried con
siderable sail until it was all blown
away. Kept constantly heaving he
lead during the night, and got sound
ings nearly every time: bu could not
exactly tell the depth. The last sound
ing We supposed to be about seventeen
fathoms. At 2 a. M, our last sail was
blown away and we were drifting to
leeward very fast, At a. m. the wind
shifted to the southeast, when we wore
ship and headed off shore. Friday,
Oct. 20, forenoon, a terrible gale was
blowing from southwest, which came
in heavy puffs. AT p. m. that day
the wind moderated, and it cleared in
the west. We got all hands to work
and cleared the wreck. On Saturday,
Oct. 81, we made what sail we could
and bore up for New York. The n xt
day Sunday, at a. NJ, in latitude %
deg. AZ min. north, longitude n deg.
33 min. west, we saw dismasted YES
sci about six miles to westward of us.
In the afternoon we beat up to her
and found her to be the schooner Katie
P. Lunt (of fremont, Me-. Capt.
Lopaus, and bound from Brunswick,
Ga, for st. Jago (Cuba), with a cargo
of pine lumber. She was In most
deplorable condition, her masts and
jibboom gone, and her decks swept
clean. We sent boat to her and took
off her Captain, his wife and crew, ana
brought them to this port.
Capt Lopaus was interviewed by a
Herald reporter and stated as follows {:
We sailed from Brunswick, Ga, on Sun
day, Oct. 10, with light westerly winds
and fine weather. That night the wind
shifted to the north and east, blowing
fresh. On Monday it was blowing o
strong breeze and we shortened sail. Dur.
ing the day the wind increased to strong
gale from northeast. The weather be-
came hazy and the vessel began to leak.
Next clay, Tuesday, the weather moder-
ating, we made all sail. During the
night of Wednesday, the 18th, it blew a
fresh gale from the northeast. We put
the vessel under short sail, and as she
was leaking badly all hands were put at
the pumps. Wednesday morning the
wind moderated and came more from
the eastward. At 10 a. m. we wore ship
to the northward and set the jib, with a
heavy sea running from the southeast
and the vessel oring heavily and still
leaking badly. At this time we were in
latitude 20 deg. II min. north, longi-
tude II deg. SO min. west. On Thurs
day, at noon, the wind increased and We
shortened sail. The barometer was very
unsteady. BY midnight it was blowing
heavy, the vessel being under three
reefed sails, and all hands at the pumps.
Friday, at daylight, there was every
sign of a hurricane. All hands were
kept at the pumps, and the barometer
kept falling fast. AT half past 8 a. M
the vessel was thrown on her beam ends,
and we had to cut away the mainmast to
right her, which carried away the fore
mast. When she righted the decks were
swept of everything-deckload, forward
house and loose spars and gear. The
vessel was full of water. 1t was blowing O
lltdllCs hb IL III. Vic UuIODlGIoT
stood very low and the sea was making q
clean breach over the vessel and through
the cabin, staving the bulkheads aud
everything in the cabin, and driving all
hands on the top of the house, where
they lashed themselves as best they
could for safety. My wife, with her
child In her arms, was washed off the
house, but having a rope made fast
| around her she was hauled on board, but
without the child, which was drowned.
Myself and another child were washed
in the cabin and nearly drowned. When
/ recovered myself the child was gone.
having been washed through the cabin.
At midnight the wind shifted to the
northwest, which made the wreck Law
easier, and gave us little shelter in the
after-companionway, which was not
washedaway. The weather moderating,
we took look around. and found the
provisions, except a can of tomatoes, and
the water NIL gone, and the decks split
open. Saturday, the 21st. we kept
lookout for sail, but none came in
sight. Sunday we made a sail six miles
distant, and heading to the northeast
after while we made her out to be
piiBy oholb Ediis W0 uOlSI6u n
shirt on board as signal to her, which
she did not seem to see, as she kept on
her course until noon, when she was al
most out of sight. She then tackled and
bore up for us. While the sail was COM
ing toward us we caught a shark, which
we managed to roast in an old stove we
found. Partly roasted, we found it
tasted good and sweet, but had no water
to drink with it. At half-past the
wind was very light and the vessel CON-
ing very slowly toward us. Shortly |
after she sent boat to us and brought |
us on board the vessel, when we found |
her to be the brig Nellie Ware, Capt.
Ashbury, from Minatitlan for New
York. Capt. Ashbury did everything
in his power to make us comfortable,
and our thanks are lue to him for the
kind manner in which he treated MS.
My wife was badly bruised, and had very
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