Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1878-10-24
State News.


The bark Sarah, OF New Bedford. LEFT
that port on Saturday Oct. -. and encoun.
tered the terrific gale ihs, swept the coas,
=, tina, time. During the evening. while
they we're laying to. the bark WAS struck
by tremendous sea and cspsixrd. The
men. only three OF whom were saved. One
OF the survivors tells the following story !:
There were seven OF us below In the fore
castle \; the time. Tb. rushed in and Oiled
the foreca.tle, cutting of escape to the dccs.
We struggled for lie, and mas Axcd To Keep
our heads above water By cliuging to floating
chests. We called to each other. and found
there were six OF Us alive. Ave men and one
boy. One man died = little while after. The
boy died the next morning The four OF u'
yet Alive chung 90 the sail tier with the water
up TO our chin.. by pryins open the lid OF a
floating che, We found a small bottle OF sweet
wine and sbou, eight apples. VI ate the ap-
pies, and esch Of us took drink Of wine. The
cook was dying and begged for moro wine
We gave him another swallow. little Will.
After he died, aud we pushed his body down
under the water, we wanted the space.
There was only about eighteen inches 10 two
feet Of spAo. between the water and the side.
and the floating chests aud stuff damned our
heads and bruised our bodies DIRE adfully.
We had fresh air enough through = broken
deck light which oceasionaily arose above va
ter. Believing that We must die /! we re-
mSincd In this horrible place, we decided 10
try aud ind the scutil- aud reach the deck
The seutilo was about 10 feet under water
from whtre we were elinging Manuel tried
and succeeded In reaching the open air-,his
va. SUNDAY afternoon. | tried twice. and was
almost drowned before could get back again.
had hard struggle 10 gci my head through
the floating boxes. ! didn't try II again that
day. but the next day. Monday. made another
attempt. and alter desperate struggle. got out
and fousd Manuel cllnging TO tb. upper eide
Of the vessel. There was a dead mau Joseph
Barrow lashcd to the rigging. cut him
adrtf. =. he made me feel bai
Manuel said he saw a steamer shout eight
miles of the day b-fore. We pulled SONS
picces Of canvas up and wrapped ourselves IN
u. We called 10 Henrique. who stiil In
the forecasiie, TO come out. bot the poor fellow
couldn't swim and would not try. We tired 10
cut plank with knife, but could only dig
the nAsum out % the scans. the plank WAS
hard. We kept good lookout for vessels,
and dropped asleep . little before We wer.
rescued. We believe all the res, OF the crew
were lost when III" bark espsixed. a. 1t was so
sudden and the Wind and sea was too much
for boat Ia live even II one could b. 70, out.
We bad been on board the vessel So short =
time iha; We we're not acquainted with the
names Of the officers and but few OF the crew.
There Was one stow-awsy on board ~bo
lost, and we sent two ashore with the pilot at
New Bedford"
The rescue OF survivors was By the pilo,
boat Isaac Webb, which fell IN with the
wreck 40 miles south OF Block Island
barely showing Itself above the water. at
O'Clock Wednesday forenoon. The two
men were found wrapped up Ia canvass
and were taken on board the pilot boat
They managed TO make the crew OF The
pilot boat understand that one man was
hard cutting with axes the man was res
cued. The three rescued men shipped
last week on the Sarah for . whaling voy-
age OF two years. The pilot boat landed
them at S,onington.